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1906–1962 Germany
Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was tasked by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and worked under Ernst Kaltenbrunner until the end of the war.
Also known as: Eichmann, Eichmann, Adolf
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I loved playing an open hand against all the Jewish political functionaries ... For me, 'open hand' is a winged word.
Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015)
Whether they were bank directors or mental cases, the people who were loaded on those trains meant nothing to me.
Religion and Public Education (1967)
As my chief, Gruppenführer Müller expressed it, they were sending in the master himself, so I wanted to behave like a master.
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
I was never an anti-Semite. … My sensitive nature revolted at the sight of corpses and blood... I personally had nothing to do with this. My job was to observe and report on it.
Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII (2002)
The men in my command had the kind of respect for me that prompted the Jews to effectively set me on a throne.
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. … His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.
I was here, there and everywhere, you never knew when I was going to show up. I was a traveler.... I was able to creep into every territory of our corner of Europe.
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
I will simply not do penance.
If we had killed 10.3 million Jews, then I would have been satisfied and would say, good, we annihilated an enemy. … I wasn't only issued orders, in this case I'd have been a moron, but I rather anticipated, I was an idealist.
It is hard, what I have told you, I know, and I will be condemned for being so hard in my phrasing, but I cannot tell you anything else, for it is the truth! Why should I deny it?
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
Die Welt memoirs (1999)
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