Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), a lieutenant-colonel in the Nazi SS, was responsible for organising the transportation of Jewish people and other victims of Nazism to concentration, labour, and death camps. Eichmann played a key role in the Holocaust and murder of 6 million Jews but escaped capture after the Second World War (1939-45). He later fled to South America.
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1906 - 1962Life of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
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19 Mar 1906Adolf Eichmann is born in Solingen, Germany.
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1 Apr 1932Adolf Eichmann joins the Austrian Nazi Party.
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Sep 1934Adolf Eichmann joins the German SS.
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1938Adolf Eichmann is appointed head of the SS Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna.
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Dec 1939Adolf Eichmann joins the Gestapo.
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1941Adolf Eichmann is appointed the head of Section IV 4b of the Nazi RSHA.
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20 Jan 1942The Wannsee Conference, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, begins the first practical steps of the Final Solution or Holocaust.
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1945Adolf Eichmann escapes Allied detention after the surrender of Germany.
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1945 - 1950Adolf Eichmann lives in Germany under an assumed identity.
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Jul 1950Adolf Eichmann flees Europe for Argentina.
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11 May 1960Israeli agents abduct the Nazi fugitive Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
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Apr 1961 - Aug 1961Adolf Eichmann is tried in Israel and found guilty of crimes against the Jewish people.
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31 May 1962Adolf Eichmann is hanged as a war criminal.
