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The hunt for Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, 1961

The Hunt for Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann: Photos from 1961

Adolf Eichmann inspired Hannah Arendt's famous phrase ‘the banality of evil’. A career civil servant in Nazi Germany, he was put in charge of administering the ‘Final Solution’ and organized the seizure of Jews from all over Europe and their transportation…

Adolf Eichmann walks around the yard of his cell, Israel, 1961

Adolf Eichmann Walks Around the Yard of his Cell, 1961

Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was charged by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydr…