Dachau Concentration Camp Personnel - Adolf Eichmann, Hans Munch, Theodor Eicke, Sigmund Rascher, Otto Rahn, Wilhelm Kube, Wolfram Sievers (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Adolf Eichmann, Hans Munch, Theodor Eicke, Sigmund Rascher, Otto Rahn, Wilhelm Kube, Wolfram Sievers, Maria Mandel, Karl Fritzsch, Max Koegel, Kurt Plotner, Claus Schilling, Hilmar Wackerle, Otto Kron, Heinrich Deubel, Egon Zill, Eduard Weiter, Therese Brandl, Gerhard Rose, Hans Loritz, Ruth Elfriede Hildner, Otto Forschner, Wilhelm Ruppert, Martin Gottfried Weiss, Rosalie Leimboeck, Alex Piorkowski. Excerpt: Adolf Otto Eichmann (March 19, 1906 - May 31, 1962) was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was charged by Obergruppenfuhrer (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 Mossad operatives in Argentina and taken 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. He is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court. Adolf Eichmann was born to a Lutheran family in Solingen, Germany. His parents were businessman and industrialist Adolf Karl Eichmann and Maria nee Schefferling. After his mother died in 1914, his family moved to Linz, Austria. During the First World War, Eichmann's father served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. At the war's conclusion, Eichmann's father moved the family back to Linz where he operated a business. Eichmann left high school-Realschule-without...