Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), Nazi official responsible for the murder of millions of Jews during World War II. Eichmann joined the Nazi secret police in 1934, and when the Germans annexed Austria in 1938, he was given the job of deporting Jews from that country, in accordance with Nazi anti-Semitic policy. During World War II he was in charge of “the final solution of the Jewish problem,” in the course of which Jews from all over German-occupied Europe were sent to death camps to be exterminated. After the war Eichmann disappeared, but in 1960 Israeli agents located him in Argentina, abducted him, and took him to Israel. Tried in Jerusalem and convicted of crimes against humanity, he was hanged two years later.