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Adolf Eichmann

b: Solingen, German Empire, Mar 19, 1906

d: Ramla, Israel, May 31, 1962

Karl Adolf Eichmann, sometimes referred to as "the architect of the Holocaust", was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Senior Storm Unit Leader, equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was charged by Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe. After the war, he fled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross and lived there under a false identity working for Mercedes-Benz until 1960. He was captured by Israeli Mossad operatives in Argentina and abducted to Israel to face trial in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was found guilty and executed by hanging in 1962, and is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court.

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Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.