In which town in the Bergisches Land was Adolf Eichmann born in 1906?
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Solingen
In 1914 the family moved to Linz, where his father had taken a job with the tram and electricity company.
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Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann in 1961 during his trial in Jerusalem.
In which Austrian city did Eichmann grow up?
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Linz
There he joined the Austrian Nazi Party and the SS in 1932 before moving to Germany.
In which city did Eichmann run the “Central Office for Jewish Emigration” from 1938?
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Vienna
The office forced Jews to hand over their assets before they were allowed to leave: a conveyor belt of plunder.
What was the highest SS rank Eichmann reached?
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Obersturmbannführer
The rank was equivalent to lieutenant colonel: Eichmann was not a senior leader, but he was the hub of the deportations.
From which country did Eichmann have more than 400,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz within a few weeks in 1944?
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Hungary
Between May and July 1944 several trains ran every day; most of those deported were murdered right after arrival.
To which country did Eichmann flee in 1950 under the name Ricardo Klement?
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Argentina
Via the so-called ratline he travelled from Genoa to Buenos Aires on a Red Cross passport; later he worked for Mercedes-Benz.
Which intelligence service abducted Eichmann from Buenos Aires in May 1960?
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the Mossad
The decisive tip had been passed to Israel by the Hessian attorney general Fritz Bauer, because he distrusted the German authorities.
In which city was Eichmann put on trial in 1961?
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Jerusalem
More than 100 witnesses testified, and the trial was televised around the world.
💡 Did you know? Eichmann sat in a booth of bulletproof glass to protect him from attacks.
Which phrase did Hannah Arendt coin in her book about the Eichmann trial?
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the banality of evil
Arendt saw Eichmann as a thoughtless bureaucrat. The historian Bettina Stangneth later used his notes from Argentina to show that he was a convinced antisemite.
In which year was Eichmann executed in Israel?
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1962
He was hanged in Ramla during the night of 31 May to 1 June 1962; his ashes were scattered in the Mediterranean outside Israeli waters.
💡 Did you know? To this day it is the only death sentence by a civilian court ever carried out in Israel.
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