Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmannwas a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführerand one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was tasked by SS-ObergruppenführerReinhard 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...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth19 March 1906
CountryGermany
financed special research institutes investigating lethal gases and methods of execution.
I witnessed the gruesome workings of the machinery of death; gear meshed with gear, like clockwork,
We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
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 one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.
I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.
Your time will come to follow me Jew
I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.