Wars, politics & history

Birth of Adolf Eichmann

19 March 1906

German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962). Adolf Eichmann was born on 19 March 1906 in what is now Germany. Adolf Eichmann is remembered as a politician, police officer and military officer, a citizen of Nazi Germany and the Weimar Republic. Positions held included Lieutenant Colonel.

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