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Adolf Eichmann- Perpetrator Karl Adolf Eichmann was born on March 19, 1906 near Cologne, Germany. During the Holocaust Adolf Eichmann was a perpetrator. At age 26 Eichmann joined the growing Austrian Nazi party. Adolf Eichmann studied all aspects of Jews culture when visiting the Jewish sections of the cities he often attended meetings and visited sections of where Jews lived. While visiting Adolf often took notes to see how they lived their life and how he could get to them. Adolf studied Hebrew and became aware of the issue of Zionism. He gradually became the acknowledged “Jewish specialist.” In 1939 Eichmann was appointed the head of the Gestapo Section B4 of the New Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. Adolf was now responsible for implementation of the Nazi policy toward the Jews in Germany and all of the occupied territories. The total eventually reached 16 countries in total. During World War II Eichmann organized the killings of the Jewish prisoners. During Adolf’s trial in Jerusalem he was guilty of the following charges- crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes against the Jewish people. While on trial one hundred witnesses testified against him. Then Eichmann took the stand and said that he was just obeying orders. "Why me," he asked. "Why not the local policemen, thousands of them? They would have been shot if they had refused to round up the Jews for the death camps. Why not hang them for not wanting to be shot? Why me? Everybody killed the Jews." On May 31st, 1962 he was found guilty on all counts and hanged in Ramleh Prison.