Obeying an order was the most important thing to me. It could be that is in the nature of the German. - Adolf Eichmann

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Obeying an order was the most important thing to me. It could be that is in the nature of the German.

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About Adolf Eichmann

Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was tasked by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and worked under Ernst Kaltenbrunner until the end of the war. He was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina and indicted by Israeli court on fifteen criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was convicted and hanged.

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Pen Names: Ricardo Klement
Native Name: Otto Adolf Eichmann
Alternative Names: Adolf Otto Eichmann • Eichmann • Eichmann Ottó Adolf • Klement Richárd
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The only good enemy of the Reich is a dead one. In particular I have to add, when I received an order, I always carried out this order with the executioner, and I am proud of that to this day.... If I had not done this, they would not have gone to the butcher.
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