R.I.P.

Adolf Eichmann

19061962

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Logistics manager of the Holocaust

SS officer responsible for organizing the transportation of millions to death camps. Managed the logistics of genocide with bureaucratic efficiency. Captured by Mossad in Argentina, tried in Jerusalem, and executed in 1962.

Why They're Here

Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' was coined to describe Eichmann—the ordinary bureaucrat who organized extraordinary horror. His trial brought the Holocaust to global consciousness.