Anecdotes

During World War II Eichmann was an SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer (Lieutenant Colonel) in the Gestapo Department of Jewish Religion. In 1942 he was selected by Reinhard Heydrich as "Chief of Transportation for the Final Solution", which put him in charge of all the trains that carried Jews to Nazi death camps in Poland. Eichmann escaped capture after the war, but Israel never forgot him and hunted him down for 15 years. In 1961 it was discovered that he was living in Argentina under an assumed name, and Israeli Mossad agents captured him and smuggled him out of the country to Israel. He was put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was convicted and sentenced to death, and hanged in 1962.

Went to the same Austrian high school, 20 years apart, as Adolf Hitler and they both had the same history teacher.

Always claimed that "personally" he had nothing against Jews.

After being put in charge of the extermination of Europe's Jewish population, Eichmann first took it upon himself to learn as much about Judaism as possible; he frequently traveled to Palestine, and even learned to speak some Hebrew and some Yiddish.

Father of Klaus Eichmann.