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Type in the content of your new page here. **__ Adolf Eichmann __** (Perpetrator) Adolf Eichmann was part of the Austrian Nazi Group, and the S.S. He was born on March 19, 1906. At the start of World War II, Adolf had been promoted to an S.S. Hauptsturmführer (captain) equivalent to a lieutenant colonial. He was responsible for the mass murder of Jews. Eichmann took a keen interest in Auschwitz from its founding and visited there on numerous occasions. He helped select the site for the gas chambers, and witnessed the extermination process. During the 1950’s many Jews were hunting down and trying to find Eichmann, his trial was at an Israeli court in Jerusalem and began on April 11, 1961. Eichmann was hanged a few minutes before midnight on May 31, 1962

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