Adolf Eichmann
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![Adolf Eichmann's Lebenslauf (résumé) attached to his application for promotion from SS-Hauptscharführer to SS-Untersturmführer in 1937](/Images/godic/202501/10/EichmannSSdoc2106.jpg")
![Map showing the location of the General Government, 1941–1945](/Images/godic/202501/10/General_Government_for_the_occupied_Polish_territories2106.png")
![Memorial at a bus stop near the site of Eichmann's office, Referat IV B4 (Office of Jewish Affairs) at Kurfurstenstrasse 115, now occupied by a hotel.](/Images/godic/202501/10/Eichmann's_office_IVB42106.JPG")
Otto Adolf Eichmann (pronounced[ˈɔto ˈaːdɔlf ˈaɪ̯çman]; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was charged by SS-Obergruppenführer (general/lieutenant general) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In 1960, he was captured in Argentina by Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962.