Adolf Eichmann

Otto Adolf Eichmann 19 March 1906 1 June 1962 was a GermanAustrian official of the Nazi Party an officer of the Schutzstaffel SS a convicted war criminal and one of the major organizers 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 SSObergruppenführer 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 Germanoccupied Europe He was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945 but he escaped and eventually settled in Argentina In May 1960 he was tracked down and abducted by Israels Mossad intelligence agency and put on trial before a special tribunal of the Jerusalem District Court The highly publicised Eichmann trial resulted in his conviction in Jerusalem following which he was executed by hanging in 1962