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Adolf Eichmann
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Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. He was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but he escaped and eventually settle…
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Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. He was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but he escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In May 1960, he was tracked down and abducted by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and put on trial before a special tribunal of the Jerusalem District Court. The highly publicised Eichmann trial resulted in his conviction in Jerusalem, following which he was executed by hanging in 1962.
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Adolf Eichmann's Filmography
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The Eichmann Trial
as Self (archive footage)
The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
as Self
The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War
as Self - Nazi Criminal (archive footage)
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
No Poster
Adolf Eichmann - Il contabile dello sterminio
as Self (archive footage)
Året var 1961
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
De opkomst van Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
Saddam and the Third Reich
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Specialist
as Himself
Death in Focus
as Self (archive footage)
A Wall in Jerusalem
as Self (archive footage)
Eichmann and the Third Reich
as Adolf Eichmann