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CHILDHOOD |
Adolf Eichmann was born in at by . His parents Karl Adolf Eichmann were both protestant. As a young boy Adolf was teased and called "The little Jewish boy" because of his dark hair and completion. He wasn't a bad student, just average. At eight years old his mother died. His father soon re married and Adolf soon had four brothers and one sister. At the age of ten he and his father moved to Vienna. |
During the War |
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Eichmann lost his
interest in engineering and dropped out of school at the age of seventeen.
He then became an employee for the Solcony Vacuum Company. After that he
worked at the American Oil Company, This gave him the opportunity to
travel. Later he was laid off. this is when he went to Ernst Kaltenbrunner
for help. Dr. Kaltenbrunner invited him and his father to a meeting for
the Nazi Party. Kaltenbrunner then managed to get Adolf accepted to a S.S Brigade.
Eichmann spent some of his time in an S.S. Dachau training camp . After
spending time in Dachau he was then invited to the S.D.'s the S.S. Sercurity
Service . He was moved to a Berlin Branch for the S.D. . He worked in
the section that monitored Freemason before he was moved to the head of
the Jewish Section in the S.D. . He was then assigned the head of the
Jewish Department of the S.D. . Eichmann claimed to have joined the S.S.
by accident . Von Mildenstein (Adolf 's mentor) advised Eichmann to study
the Jewish Community and History do it would be better to understand the
Jewish enemy. From there he studied jewish way and jewish places . In 1936
Adolf married Vera Liebel a native Bohemia. They lived in praugue and
became parent to four boys . On October 1939 Eichmann was appointed to IV
D4 Depsrtment of the Gestapo at Berlin. Eichmann created a Jewish
organization. He did this so he had leaders who allowed Ziniost
organizations to opperate.
Auschwitz, a camp Eichmann was well interested in, and visited many times. Hoss and Eichmann approved of Zyklon B. Together they picked out a sight best for the gassings. Eichmann took great pried in the part he played of killing 6 million Jews. |
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Chelsea Conway 7th Social Studies Rossville Jr. High Holocaust Project 2004 |