Historical Figure
Adolf Eichmann
1906–1962
German SS officer and war criminal (1906–1962)
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Death
1962 June 1, 1962 →Biography
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. He was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In May 1960, he was tracked down and apprehended by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, and put on trial before the Supreme Court of Israel. The highly publicised Eichmann trial resulted in his conviction in Jerusalem, following which he was executed by hanging in 1962.
Timeline
en la ciudad de Bancalari, en el norte del Gran Buenos Aires (Argentina), agentes del servicio secreto israelí (Mosad) secuestran al genocida nazi Adolf Eichmann (54), que vivía de incógnito (con el nombre de Roberto Klement) en una casa. Será llevado a Israel, juzgado y ejecutado.
May 11 →en Argentina, agentes del servicio secreto israelí (Mosad) abordan un avión israelí y llevan a Israel al genocida nazi Adolf Eichmann (54). En Israel será juzgado y ejecutado por crímenes de lesa humanidad.
May 20 →en un acto estudiantil en el Colegio Nacional Sarmiento, en Buenos Aires (Argentina), Edgardo Manuel Trolnik, estudiante de 15 años, es herido por las balas de un ataque antisemita en represalia por la captura del criminal nazi Adolf Eichmann en las afueras de Buenos Aires.
August 17 →In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
May 11 →Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann had been captured.
May 23 →The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
December 9 →Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
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