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Blood for Goods: Heinrich Himmler, Ben Hecht, Rudolf Vrba, Joel Brand, Adolf Eichmann, Blood for Goods, Rudolf Kastner, Vrba-Wetzler Report
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-04.
ISBN 9781155433578
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Heinrich Himmler, Ben Hecht, Rudolf Vrba, Joel Brand, Adolf Eichmann, Blood for Goods, Rudolf Kastner, Vrba-Wetzler Report, Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, Joel Teitelbaum, Malchiel Gruenwald, Kurt Becher, Kastner Train, Peter Munk, Alfréd Wetzler, Aid and Rescue Committee, Ruth Linn. Excerpt: Adolf Eichmann Otto Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 May 31, 1962 ), sometimes referred to as "the architect of the Holocaust ", was a German Nazi and SS - Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel ). Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was charged by Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe . After the war , he fled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross and lived there under a false identity working for Mercedes-Benz until 1960. He was captured by Israeli Mossad operatives in Argentina and abducted to Israel to face trial in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes . He was found guilty and executed by hanging in 1962, and is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court. Biography Early life Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen , Germany , to a businessman and industrialist, Adolf Karl Eichmann, and Maria née Schefferling. After his mother died in 1914, his family moved to Linz , Austria . During the First World War , Eichmann's father served in the Austro-Hungarian Army . At the war's conclusion, Eichmann's father returned to the family and had a company in Linz. Eichmann left high school Realschule without having graduated and began training to bec
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