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Eichmann

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Eich·mann  (kmn, -, -män), Adolf 1906-1962.
German Nazi official who as head of the Gestapo's Jewish section (1939-1945) was chiefly responsible for the murder of millions of Jews during World War II. After the war he fled to South America, was captured by the Israeli secret service (1960), and was tried and executed in Israel.
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Noun1.Eichmann - Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)
Adolf Eichmann, Karl Adolf Eichmann


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As the sole purpose for the existence of Hezbollah and Hamas is the destruction of Israel and the genocide of all Jews everywhere, that you feel that they should be treated more kindly leads me to assume that you would have felt the same way toward Hitler, Eichmann, et al
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He names ingredients of a successful domination system; one is Amtssprache, (29) a word he ascribes to Adolf Eichmann and renders as "a bureaucratic language that denies choice, with words like 'should,' 'have to,' 'ought'" (30)--a language said to have made it easy for Eichmann to send trains of human cargo to the camps.
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She also says that documents substantiate that the CIA knew the pseudonym and location of the famously malignant Holocaust manager Adolph Eichmann as early as 1958, but did not provide the information to Israel, which had been seeking him since shortly after the war.
War crimes panel member comments on CIA use of Nazi informants after ... by McManus, John F. / The New American
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