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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Eichmann, Adolf Eichmann, Karl Adolf Eichmannnoun

    Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)

Wiktionary

  1. Eichmannnoun

    One who willingly participates in immoral or destructive actions without ethical qualms because the actions are acceptable to society.

  2. Etymology: After Karl Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), "the architect of the Holocaust".

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  1. eichmann

    Otto Adolf Eichmann ( EYEKH-mən, German: [ˈɔtoː 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. In May 1960, he was abducted by Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel. Eichmann subsequently stood trial with 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. After doing poorly in school, Eichmann briefly worked for his father's mining company in Austria, where the family had moved in 1914. He worked as a travelling oil salesman beginning in 1927, and joined both the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932. He returned to Germany in 1933, where he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, "Security Service"); there he was appointed head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs – especially emigration, which the Nazis encouraged through violence and economic pressure. After the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Eichmann and his staff arranged for Jews to be concentrated in ghettos in major cities with the expectation that they would be transported either farther east or overseas. He also drew up plans for a Jewish reservation, first at Nisko in southeast Poland and later in Madagascar, but neither of these plans was carried out. The Nazis began the invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, and their Jewish policy changed from coerced emigration to extermination. To coordinate planning for the genocide, Reinhard Heydrich, who was Eichmann's superior, hosted the regime's administrative leaders at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942. Eichmann collected information for him, attended the conference, and prepared the minutes. Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and Eichmann oversaw the deportation of much of the Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where about 75 per cent were murdered upon arrival. By the time the transports were stopped in July 1944, 437,000 of Hungary's 725,000 Jews had been killed. Dieter Wisliceny testified at Nuremberg that Eichmann told him he would "leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."After Germany's defeat in 1945, Eichmann was captured by US forces, but escaped from a detention camp and moved around Germany to avoid re-capture. He ended up in a small village in Lower Saxony, where he lived until 1950, when he moved to Argentina using false papers he obtained with help from an organisation directed by Catholic bishop Alois Hudal. Information collected by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, confirmed his location in 1960. A team of Mossad and Shin Bet agents captured Eichmann and brought him to Israel to stand trial on 15 criminal charges, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the Jewish people. During the trial, he did not deny the Holocaust or his role in organising it, but said he was simply following orders in a totalitarian Führerprinzip system. He was found guilty on all of the charges, and was executed by hanging on 1 June 1962. The trial was widely followed in the media and was later the subject of several books, including Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which Arendt coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to describe Eichmann.

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  1. eichmann

    Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was a high-ranking Nazi officer during World War II who was one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was in charge of the department in charge of deporting Jews to ghettos and extermination camps. After the war, he fled to Argentina where he was caught by Israeli agents in 1960. He was subsequently extradited to Israel, tried and found guilty of war crimes, and executed in 1962. The term "Eichmann" has often been used to symbolize the bureaucratic apparatus of the Holocaust.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. EICHMANN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Eichmann is ranked #30980 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Eichmann surname appeared 750 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Eichmann.

    94.6% or 710 total occurrences were White.
    3.8% or 29 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.6% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of eichmann in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of eichmann in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of eichmann in a Sentence

  1. Rafi Eitan:

    Rafi Eitan told Fox News Leland Vittert. Eventually, the man admitted he was Adolf Eichmann. With more derring-do, Rafi Eitan and his fellow commandoes spirited Eichmann out of Argentina and brought him back to Israel where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. ANCIENT CLAY JAR FRAGMENT DEPICTING GROTESQUE DEITY DISCOVERED IN JERUSALEMS CITY OF DAVID At a reunion for those involved in Eichmanns capture and trial some years ago, Rafi Eitan recalled Eichmanns capturewith a twinkle in Rafi Eitan eye. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP I was 51 years younger( then), but I am able and ready to do the same thing again.

  2. Efraim Zuroff:

    Many leading Nazis went to Argentina Josef Mengel, Adolf Eichmann, Josef Schwamberger so this finding is possible, but the bottom line is that it never reached fruition, this secret colony of Nazis.

  3. Lenny Bruce:

    The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

  4. Heinrich Muller:

    If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

  5. Rafi Eitan:

    The moment I have Adolf Eichmann, on my knees I am, saying to myself the song of the Jewish partisans which says at the end, We are here and we shall return.

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