Adolf Eichmann facts for kids
Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 - 31 May 1962) was an important member of the government of Nazi Germany during the Third Reich. He was the architect of The Holocaust who organized the death camps, like the Auschwitz concentration camp, that were used to kill 11 million people during World War 2. After the war he escaped and in 1960 was discovered to be living in Argentina. The Israeli secret service, the Mossad, kidnapped him and took him back to Israel. Eichmann was put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was found guilty on 11 December 1961, and executed.
The trial of Adolf Eichmann was broadcast on radio in Israel, and millions of people around the world watched it on television. This was the first time that victims of the Holocaust talked openly about what had happened. This was an event that helped bring together and unify the many people who had come to live in the new nation of Israel.
Images for kids
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Adolf Eichmann's Lebenslauf (résumé) attached to his application for promotion from SS-Hauptscharführer to SS-Untersturmführer in 1937
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Map showing the location of the General Government, 1941–1945
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Memorial at a bus stop near the site of Eichmann's office, Referat IV B4 (Office of Jewish Affairs) at Kurfurstenstrasse 115, now occupied by a hotel.
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Hungarian woman and children arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May or June 1944 (photo from the Auschwitz Album)
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The teleprinter that was used to send messages regarding the capture to Israel's diplomatic missions around the world
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Eichmann on trial in 1961
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Eichmann's trial judges Benjamin Halevy, Moshe Landau, and Yitzhak Raveh
