German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)
He organized the logistics of mass murder on an industrial scale. An SS officer who coordinated the deportation of millions to extermination camps, then fled to Argentina, only to be abducted by Israeli agents in 1960 and hanged two years later after a trial that gave the world the phrase "the banality of evil."
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian who drifted through early failure—poor school marks, brief stints in his father's mining company, then years as a travelling oil salesman—before joining the Nazi Party and SS in 1932. By 1933 he had found his place in the Sicherheitsdienst, heading the department for Jewish affairs and enforcing emigration through violence and economic pressure. He attended the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, took the minutes, and afterward managed the deportations to extermination camps across occupied Europe. In March 1944 he oversaw the removal of Hungary's Jews…
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Long live Germany. Long live Argentina. Long live Austria. These are the three countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget.
I was only carrying out the orders of the Zionists. They asked me to gather the Jews in a specific place in the world, using expulsion or murder.
Regret is something for little children.
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
Over the years I learned which hooks to use to catch which fish.
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