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.
