Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: Adolf Eichmann, Hans Münch, Theodor Eicke, Sigmund Rascher, Otto Rahn, Wilhelm Kube, Wolfram Sievers, Maria Mandel, Karl Fritzsch, Max Koegel, Kurt Plötner, Claus Schilling, Hilmar Wäckerle, Otto Kron, Heinrich Deubel, Egon Zill, Eduard Weiter, Therese Brandl, Gerhard Rose, Hans Loritz, Ruth Elfriede Hildner, Otto Förschner, Wilhelm Ruppert, Martin Gottfried Weiss, Rosalie Leimboeck, Alex Piorkowski. Excerpt: Adolf Otto Eichmann (March 19, 1906 - May 31, 1962) was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was charged by Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe. After the war, he fled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross and lived there under a false identity working for Mercedes-Benz until 1960. He was captured by Mossad operatives in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was found guilty and executed by hanging in 1962. He is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court. Adolf Eichmann was born to a Lutheran family in Solingen, Germany. His parents were businessman and industrialist Adolf Karl Eichmann and Maria née Schefferling. After his mother died in 1914, his family moved to Linz, Austria. During the First World War, Eichmann's father served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. At the war's conclusion, Eichmann's father moved the family back to Linz where he operated a business. Eichmann left high school-Realschule-without having graduated and began training to become a mechanic, which he also discontinued. In 1923 he started working in the mining company of his father. From 1925 to 1927 he worked as a sales clerk for the Oberösterreichische Elektrobau AG and then until spring 1933 Eichmann worked as district agent for the Vacuum Oil Company AG, a subsidiary of Standard Oil. During this time he was a member of the Jungfrontkämpfervereinigung, the youth section of Hermann Hiltl's right-wing veterans movement. In July 1933 he moved back to Germany. Eichmann married Veronika Liebl