Eichmann was ordered to Berlin and made officer in charge of Jewish affairs for the whole nation. ibid.
On June 1st 1962 Adolf Eichmann was executed. His ashes were scattered over the Mediterranean. ibid.
September 2nd 1945: the War is over. Fifty million dead including six million murdered Jews. As leading Nazis are captured, one name slowly rises to the top of the Most Wanted list – Adolf Eichmann – the SS officer accused of planning the Final Solution to the Jewish question. It will take the Israeli Secret Service fifteen years to track him to his hiding place in Argentina. The Eichmann Show, BBC 2015
‘Only television can do this.’ ibid. Milton
‘The decision to televise was a very great gamble. Now it must pay off.’ ibid. bearded bloke
I’m giving you the most important assignment you or anyone else will ever get. The Man Who Captured Eichmann 1996 starring Robert Duvall & Arliss Howard & Jeffrey Tambor & Jack Laufer & Nicolas Surovy & Joel Brooks & Michael Laskin & Sam Robards & Michael Tucci & Rusty Schwimmer & Rita Zohar et al, director, Mossad agent
Adolf Eichmann, the sinister figure who had charge of the extermination program, has estimated that the anti-Jewish activities resulted in the killing of six million Jews. Of these, four million were killed in extermination institutions, and two million were killed by Einsatzgruppen, mobile units of the Security Police and SD which pursued Jews in the ghettos and in their homes and slaughtered them by gas wagons, by mass shooting in antitank ditches, and by every device which Nazi ingenuity could conceive. So thorough and uncompromising was this program that the Jews of Europe as a race no longer exist, thus fulfilling the diabolic ‘prophecy’ of Adolf Hitler at the beginning of the war. Robert H Jackson
He [Eichmann] complained regularly about death-camp quotas not being fulfilled, about the problems of getting all French Jews to the death camps, and about the intermittent failure of the Italians to cooperate.
As late as 1944, he played a leading, and open, role in the killing of Hungarian Jews, and in August of that year he reported that four million Jews had died in the death camps and another two million at the hands of the Nazis’ mobile extermination units in Eastern Europe. At no point did he show the least compunction over the planning, organization and execution of what became known as the Holocaust. Roger Cohen, article The New York Times August 1999, ‘Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain’
Nearly four decades after being buried in Israel’s state archives, a rambling manuscript by Adolf Eichmann, the chief transport technician behind the Nazi death machine, was finally released to the public yesterday, reeking of mendacity, self-interest, and delusion.
Penned in jail as he awaited his execution, the man who dispatched hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers ended his days trying to convince the world he was a mere Nazi underling, a lickspittle who was only obeying orders and who went to the gallows tortured by regret at having been dazzled and led astray by the Third Reich’s leaders ...
Time and again, he absolves himself of responsibility for the Nazi regime’s horrendous crimes, painting a picture of himself as a nature-loving, simple, practical figure, who was brought up (in Austria, though he was German-born) to believe in discipline. He casts himself as a man who could not understand why his superiors kept embroiling him in death, instead of giving him the desk job he so coveted and clamoured for. A man who was horrified to witness the gassing of Jews in a mobile execution van. A man who loved his family, who made friends before the war with Jews and dissidents ...
Almost every chapter contains an explanation of how little authority that he – the head of the Gestapo section in Berlin whose job it was to locate, deport, and exterminate Jews – actually held. Phil Reeves, article The Independent ‘The Nazi Legacy: Eichmann’
Eichmann: He is in Argentina. The net of former deportees now locates him in Buenos Aires … Israel wants Eichmann alive. Hunting Down the Nazis II, Yesterday 2018
The Eichmann trial will last six months and arouse the entire world’s acute interest. ibid.
In 1961 the world was transfixed by a sensational trial, the first ever broadcast on television. Adolf Eichmann was brought to justice in Jerusalem to answer for his part in the Nazi murder of six million Jews. Eichmann: History’s Most Hated, H2 2018
He studied Hebrew and Yiddish and even went to Palestine in 1937 to explore the possibility of deporting German Jews there. ibid.
Eichmann was sent to Vienna to rid Austria of its Jewish population. ibid.
Eichmann was switched to the Gestapo where his ability to order arrests and executions would speed emigration. ibid.
These records would detail Eichmann’s crimes to the Allies. ibid.
Eichmann testified for four straight weeks. ibid.
I took him [Eichmann] down with a stranglehold. When he was restrained we put him into the car. In the car he was silent the whole way there. Inside the Mossad s1e1: In Poison, Bomb or Silencer, Rafi Eitan, director of operations 1950-1981
Tried in Jerusalem, Adolf Eichmann maintained his innocence to the very end. In May 1962 he was hanged. The SS: The Mystery of the Odessa, Military Channel 2019
The Nazis allow a film to be made that documents the infrastructure behind the holocaust. Recorded without sound, it provides a glimpse of their worst crime. Rise of the Nazis s4e2: The Manhunt: The Ratline, BBC 2023
The man who organised this transport network was SS Officer Adolf Eichmann. After the war Eichmann was still at large.
‘Eichmann is one of the most terrifying Nazis. Eichmann encapsulates the essence of Nazism.’ ibid. Dr Christian Soeschel
He obtains false papers … He manages to escape and goes into hiding. ibid.
Eichmann is just one of thousands of wanted Nazis who remain at large. But the hunt is on to find them. ibid.
1957 Buenos Aires: ‘My father and I detested the figure. The persona was so … weird.’ The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes I & II, Saskia Sassen remembers her father Willem taping conversation with Eichmann, BBC 2024
Nazis have always denied their role in the Holocaust. After the War many fled Europe including the architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann. One of the last Nazi fugitives to arrive in Argentina. ibid.
‘Had we killed 10.3 million Jews then I would be satisfied and say, Good, we exterminated an enemy.’ ibid. Eichmann
‘Eichmann refused any guilt on himself.’ ibid. author