Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann helped organize the Holocaust's mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps. His work facilitated Nazi mass murder, including the deportation of approximately 440,000 Hungarian Jews, mostly to Auschwitz, in 1944.
At a glance
- What happened
- As a senior Nazi official, Eichmann organized transport and deportation arrangements that delivered persecuted Jews into the Nazi system of imprisonment and mass killing. In Hungary, he and his staff oversaw the deportation of approximately 440,000 Jews. These deportation operations helped carry out the Nazi regime's genocide.
- When
- World War II: deportation operations. 1960: captured in Argentina. 1961: Jerusalem trial and death sentence. June 1, 1962: execution.
- Where
- Nazi-controlled Europe; later Argentina, where he was captured; Jerusalem, Israel, where he stood trial.
- Why / motive
- The operations formed part of the Nazi regime's antisemitic persecution and genocide. Eichmann's administrative role facilitated that state-directed policy.
- Outcome
- The Israeli court convicted Eichmann of crimes including crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to death and hanged on June 1, 1962.
Who is involved
- Adolf Eichmann — subject
Sources
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum — Eichmann sentenced to death“On June 1, 1962, Eichmann was executed by hanging.”
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum — Eichmann's role in the Holocaust“Eichmann and his aides deported approximately 440,000 Hungarian Jews, mostly to Auschwitz.”
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