What to Do with Adolf Eichmanns Memoirs?
Baruch C. Cohen, Esq. Nazi SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer (Lieutenant-Colonel) Karl Adolf Eichmann was originally a gasoline salesman before he signed up for the Nazi party. In the Nazi party, Eichman rose quickly to become Adolf Hitler’s right hand man and was appointed to manage all Jewish affairs . In Austria and Czechoslovakia, Eichmann was the one primarily responsible for Jewish destruction. He was head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 and was chief of operations in the deportation of three million Jews to extermination camps. It was Eichmann who organized the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, which focused on issues related to the “final solution of the Jewish question.” From this point Eichmann assumed the leading role in the deportation of European Jews to the death camps, as well as in the plunder of their property. Hitler’s troops rounded up millions of Jewish people and sent them to the dreaded concentration camps at Auschwitz, Chelmno, Trebl
