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| Eichmann objective of the offide was deport 190,000 Jews,
Poles, and Cypsis. Thousands who ended up in these ghettos died of
starvation and disease. And those who survived the horrible conditions of
the ghettos were deported to labor camps, concentration camp, or death
camps. He hoped that the abominable conditions in the ghettos would
deplete Jewish population quickly and haturally through starvation,
disease, and cold. The ghetto server as a holding area for eventual
transportation to the death camps for the hardy ones who survied brutal
conditions. There was no medicine permitted in the ghettos. The food
ration allowed to inhabited was a quarer of that avaible enoug to permit
survival. Where one hundred and sixty thousand people where packed into a
smaller than three square miles. When Eichmann forced another
twenty-thousand into Lodz, the district commissioner Naively complained
that he must have had inaccurate information about the capacity of the
ghetto. One hundred and twenty thousand Jews in the Lodz ghetto died of
starvation. The Jews who where not forced into ghettos where condemend to
Poland's 300 Labor camps. Throughout most of the war, Eichmann was the top
official of a bureaurray, and murder millions of Jews. It is generally
belived that the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust was six million.
Five milion others also perished as a result of Nazi artocities. |
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| At an October 1941 meeting where Eichmann was present, a
decision was made to use poison gas to kill Jews. Auschwitz, a camp in
Poland, was chosen to test this new method, and it was Eichmann who met
with the Auschwitz commandont Radoph Hoess, to accomplish this. He would
travel from occupied country and assist in making the arrangments for the
Jews to be slaughtered. Fifteen high ranking Nazi officak were in
attedance, include Heydrich, for whom Eichmann prepared the conferen's
opening speech. At this meeting, the Third Reich adopted a plam to deport
Jews to death camps, in what he came known as the " Final
Solution." Most of the debate centered not on the morality of this,
but rather what proportion of Jewish blood would merit this special
treatment and the methods used to effect genocide Heydrich made it clear
that all organizational and logistical requirements would be the
responibility of Adolf Eichmann. According to Eichmann, it was he who
coined the term "Final Solution" to mean annihilation of the
Jewish people. By 1941, Hitler ordered that all Jews in the Reich be
killed. A written order to that effect was found to be sent from Gestapo
Chief Hermann Goerring to Heydrich. Eichmann, as the Nazi war
machine's Jewish expens was the central instrument in the German war
bureaucracy to see that this order was fulfilled. In his Sassen interveiws,
Eichmann took the credit for drafting Goerring's directive. According to
ore high on the list of war criminals who would be dealt withfollowing the
inevitable Allied victory. By the time war broke out in September
1939,Eichmann was running the central offices. He was promoted almost
annually , eventually achieving the rank of Lt. Colonel of the S.S. (S.S
oberstrumbannfuehrer) by 1941. Stories ciroulated about his arrogance - -
even that he periodicarit challenged superion officers to share his
vision with respect to the "Jewish problem" |
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| In June of 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Special
German units called einsatzergappen followed immediately behind the
advancing troops. An estimated 1.4 million Jews were murdered by the
Einsatzergruppen. All reports about their activities went to Eichmann.
Einsatzerguppen's methods of mass murder were inefficienty and it was
Eichmann's duty to develop and imp;ement methods to haster the
annihilation of the Jews under Nazi occupation. The Crooked Shall Be Made
Straghit! The Eichmann Trail, the Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Arendt's
Narrtive. The seventh million: The I sraelis and the Holocaust. At his
trial in Nuremberg, Goerring denied that the words in the directive meant
that the Jews were to be killed. With the war seemingly lost, Eichmann set
to work with two goals in mind; destroying all documents he could find
human histroy, and murding as many Jews as could be accomplished before
the cover of war was lifted. |
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| Jacob Brady
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