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Adolf Eichmann

1906 - 1962

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Otto Adolf Eichmann ( EYEKH-mən; German pronunciation: [ˈʔɔto ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈʔaɪçman] ; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Eichmann is the 9th most popular military personnel (up from 11th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Germany (down from 48th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Military Personnel.

Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was charged with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe during World War II.

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Among military personnels, Adolf Eichmann ranks 9 out of 2,058. Before him are Joan of Arc, Timur, Charles de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek, Karl Dönitz, and Bernard Montgomery. After him are Charles XIV John of Sweden, Oda Nobunaga, Erwin Rommel, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Khalid ibn al-Walid, and Charles Martel.

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Among people born in 1906, Adolf Eichmann ranks 3. Before him are Leonid Brezhnev, and Puyi. After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1962, Adolf Eichmann ranks 5. Before him are Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Niels Bohr, and Hermann Hesse. After him are William Faulkner, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Stuart Sutcliffe, Karen Blixen, Lucky Luciano, Arthur Compton, and Georges Bataille.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Eichmann ranks 56 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert Koch (1843), Marlene Dietrich (1901), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Thomas Mann (1875), Gerd Müller (1945), and William I, German Emperor (1797). After him are Georg Ohm (1789), Hildegard of Bingen (1098), Erwin Rommel (1891), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Heinrich Hertz (1857), and Hannah Arendt (1906).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Adolf Eichmann ranks 2. Before him are Karl Dönitz (1891). After him are Erwin Rommel (1891), Erich von Manstein (1887), Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Heinz Guderian (1888), Friedrich Paulus (1890), Arminius (-17), Alfred Jodl (1890), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Baron Munchausen (1720), and Ernst Röhm (1887).

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