Adolf Eichmann, die Nuremburg ‘trials’ und Die Berliner Mauer
(Adolf Eichmann, the Nuremburg trials and the Berlin Wall)
Adolf Eichmann:
Adolf Eichmann, born in March 1906, moved to Austria from Germany. He lived his childhood in Linz Austria, where his school-mates called him the ‘little Jew’ due to Adolf Eichmann’s darker complexion and appearance.
Eichmann would become a soldier in the Austrian Nazi party in 1932 at age 26, leading him to become a SS member. Later on in his life, 1934 at age 28, Eichmann became a SS corporal at Dachau, which was an early concentration camp. Eichmann specialized in the Jewish segment of the camp; he learned of all the important Jews and learned of their culture through taking notes when he interacted with them.
Eichmann had an extreme interest in the Jews and held a great promise for the Nazi party. Eichmann soon became a ‘Jewish Specialist’, he went to Jewish parts of town and synagogues in which he wrote his note; Eichmann learned a bit of Hebrew, he became thoroughly aware of Zionism, and he blended in with the Jews fairly well. He even learned how to speak some of the Jews native tongue, Yiddish.
Since his work was so successful Eichmann caught Heinrich Himmler’s and Reinhard Heydrich’s attention, both of which were SS over seers. Himmler and Heydrich put Eichmann into the SD section of the SS, which was the ‘Scientific Museum of Jewish Affairs’. The SD’s purpose was to come up with the ‘Jewish solution’ which was created by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. The Jewish Solution was the solution to the Jewish problem, or in other words ‘how to rid of the Jews appropriately and efficiently’ and how to keep them from immigrating.
Adolf Eichmann established the Central Office for Jewish Immigration in 1938; this is where the ‘Solution’ would start. The office would take in Jews and give them permits to leave Austria safely only if they gave up all their possessions and wealth, though many thought this was a harsh way to go their ignorance kept them from predicting what would grow of the ‘Jewish Solution’. The Nazis, including Eichmann, at the office would allow only the Jews that paid with all they had go through and leave Austria, many Jews decided against leaving Austria due to the heavy price to pay. Nearly 100,000 Jews fled from Austria through the office, this sparked similar offices in Berlin and Prague.
Eichmann became one of the most important men of the Reich, as well as Himmler, Heydrich and Hitler himself. This allowed him to do more within the Reich and supervise the outcome of the Reich’s battles.
As the Solution grew Heydrich and Eichmann ordered the Jews in Poland, which at the time had the largest Jewish population, to be rounded up and put into concentration and camps.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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