Adolf Eichmann: biography with photo

The future German officer and fellow Gestapo Adolf Eichmann was born in 1906, on March 19, in the town of Solingen in Westphalia. His father was an accountant and was employed by a new company in Linz, Austria. This was in 1924.

Childhood and youth

The boy received Catholic education from his childhood. History knows a lot of strange coincidences. So Eichmann, for example, went to the same school in Linz, which formerly studied Adolf Hitler, who was two decades older than his namesake.

For children's years there was war and revolution. The family of Eichmann survived the turbulent times calmly, and the head of the family has achieved success and even opened his own business. His entrepreneurial activities included a mine near Salzburg, as well as several mills. However, after the revolution, an economic crisis began, because of which Eichmann died and ceased his attempts to manage the company. It was not surprising, as all businessmen went bankrupt. Adolf Eichmann during this time and could not finish his studies at the school and was sent by his father to his own mine to help the workers. Later, he studied electrical engineering and worked in a fuel company, supplying kerosene to areas with weak electrification.

Joining the SS

In the late 20's, Adolf Eichmann came to the Youth Union of Front-line soldiers due to ties in this association. This environment was full of agitators from the SS who offered members of the union a place in their organization. Front-line soldiers could carry weapons, which was very important for the curators of the NSDAP. Adolf Eichmann joined the SS and the National Socialist Party in 1932. He still lived in Austria, where the government did not like the active activities of German radicals. Therefore, next year the SS was banned, and Eichmann went to Germany.

At first he served in Passau and Dachau. In this year he became an Unterscharfuhrer, which corresponds to the rank of non-commissioned officer. Then followed the work in the office apparatus of the Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler. It was the head of the SS. He instructed Eichmann to enter the new department responsible for the Jewish question. At this time, the Reich was preparing to expel all the Semitic population from the country. Adolf was to make a reference to the book "The Jewish State." Later it was used in the SS as a standard circular.

In 1937, Eichmann tried to go to Palestine, in order to get acquainted with the order of this country. He met with representatives of Hagala, a paramilitary Jewish group banned in the Middle East. After the Anschluss with Austria, the officer returned to this country, where he made plans for the accelerated emigration of undesirable persons from the country.

Solving the Jewish Question

With the onset of the war in September 1939, the Department of IV-B-4 was created in the Main Directorate of Imperial Security, which was headed by Adolf Eichmann. The Jew and any other citizen associated with Semitism, fell under his vigilant control. It was he who agreed that in Auschwitz, the famous death camps, opened in 1941, appeared.

Later he worked as a secretary at the conference, where he discussed measures to "finalize the Jewish question". He kept the minutes of the meeting and proposed to exile those arrested to Eastern Europe. In the second half of the war, when the atrocities broke out with a special scale, Adolf began to lead the Sonderkommando. They sent Jews to Auschwitz from all over Europe. In 1944, the head of the SS Himmler received a report on 4 million Jews killed, whose author was Adolf Eichmann. The biography of this functionary is inextricably linked with blood and murders.

Escape to Argentina

When the Third Reich was defeated, the Allies began to raid the survivors of the repressive Nazi machine. Many of them eventually ended up in the dock during the Nuremberg trial, from where they went to the death penalty. Among them was Adolf Eichmann. The photo of the criminal was a reference point for many military and special services of the USA, the USSR, etc.

Once he did not manage to escape, and he ended up in prison. But even at that moment Eichmann lied about his personality and introduced himself as a member of one of the SS voluntary divisions. While he was imprisoned in a local prison, he managed to escape. To survive, Nazi criminals should flee Europe. Most often the purpose of their route was Latin America, in the vastness of which to find a man was equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack. There was a whole system of "rat tracks", according to which fugitives found holes in the borders and transport.

The key was the question of changing personalities and documents. Who is Adolf Eichmann after the appearance of a new passport? He chose the Spanish name Ricardo Clement and, with the help of Franciscan monks, made himself a Red Cross certificate in 1950. He was in Argentina, where he moved his family and got a job at a local factory Mercedes-Benz. Eichmann Adolf, whose date of birth was March 19, 1906, changed it in a new passport.

The Mossad is looking for a criminal

During this time, the State of Israel appeared in the Middle East. Local intelligence Mossad engaged in tracking down Nazi criminals. For the Jewish community, this was the most urgent issue, since many citizens of the new country (or at least their relatives and friends) suffered from the Holocaust. Eichmann was the number one goal, since he directed the sending of the innocent to the death camps in Auschwitz. But on the order of ten years the searches were fruitless, until the case turned up.

In 1958, intelligence agents received intelligence information that Eichmann was hiding in Argentina. It happened literally miraculously. The son of a former member of the Gestapo began to meet with the girl and boastfully told her about his father's past. The new acquaintance also had a father named Lothar German. He was a Jew of German descent who suffered during the purges in the Reich. He was already blind, but he retained a clear mind and was interested in the fate of Nazi criminals. After learning from his daughter about a young man with the name Eichmann, he immediately remembered the famous Gestapo. Lothar managed to contact the Mossad and tell us his thoughts.

Preparing for an operation

The operation to catch a runaway criminal was carried out with maximum conspiracy measures. It was headed by Mossad director Isser Harel. All the agents went to Argentina one by one, at different times and from different countries. In order to facilitate the movement of scouts, a fictitious travel company was created. In April 1960, the immediate observation of the object by the incoming employees of the Mossad began. In total, 30 people participated in the operation, 12 of which were direct perpetrators of the seizure. Others provided technical and information support. Several cars and houses were rented for the latitude of maneuver in case of unforeseen situations.

Eichmann in the hands of Israeli intelligence

Seven agents were waiting for Eichmann in ambush when one of the performers called him in Spanish. Adolf was stunned by the reception of Nelson, and he was pushed into the car. He was brought to a safe house, where they immediately checked for the presence of a hidden poison. Many Nazis carried test tubes with them in case of unexpected detention. This habit did not leave the persecuted until death. Eichmann immediately admitted that he is the one the Mossad is looking for. Nine days of the prisoner were kept in the villa while the question of sending him to Israel was being decided. During this time, he was interrogated several times, which later was used in court.

When Eichmann was brought to the airport, he was pumped up with drugs and sedatives. He was dressed in the shape of an Israeli pilot, so that he did not arouse suspicions from customs officers (they were provided with a fake passport).

Court and execution

In Israel, Eichmann was brought to trial, where many victims of the Holocaust appeared. The condemned was sentenced to death. Already after his appearance in Israel, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told the media that the Nazi criminal was in the hands of local justice. The process had a huge public resonance throughout the world. On June 1, 1962, he was hanged for crimes related to genocide.