Kelly Mass - Evil People: Some of the Most Cruel People in History

In this book, we will talk about one of the evilest people we know of, a Nazi commander who had so much blood on his hands that some people were afraid of the fact that Hitler would be killed and he would be the one to take control, which would make things even worse. Was he a psychopath? Did he just become this way because of the harsh circumstances of the Great Depression in Germany before World War 2? I guess some questions will be left unanswered, but at least we will answer some of them in this book.

Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian SS-Obersturmbannfhrer and one of the primary organizers of the Holocaust, typically called the "Last Resolution to the Jewish Question." SS-Obergruppenfhrer Reinhard Heydrich charged him at the time of the second world war with helping with and monitoring the logistics of the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and death camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. On May 11, 1960, the Mossad caught Eichmann in Argentina, and he was convicted guilty of war criminal activities in an extensively advertised trial in Jerusalem, where he was awaited 1962.
Eichmann temporarily worked for his dad's mining company in Austria, where the family had moved in 1914, after failing to do well in school. Starting in 1927, he worked as a travelling oil salesperson before signing up with the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932. In 1933, he went back to Germany and signed up with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), where he was designated chief of the area in charge of Jewish affairs, which includes emigration, which the Nazis supported through cruelty and financial pressure. Following the start of the second world war in the month of September 1939, Eichmann and his team organized for Jews to be restricted to ghettos in significant towns, with the intent of transferring them either more east or abroad. He also designed ideas for a Jewish appointment, initially in Nisko, Poland, and consequently in Madagascar, but neither plan was executed.
In June 1941, the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union, and their Jewish policy moved from emigration to annihilation. On January 20th, 1942, Heydrich, Eichmann's remarkable, hosted the program's administrative authorities at the Wannsee Conference to go over genocide planning. Eichmann helped him by collecting info, participating in the conference, and preparing the minutes. Eichmann and his team supervised of deporting Jews to extermination camps, where they were gotten rid of. In March 1944, Germany attacked Hungary, and Eichmann managed the deportation of a pretty large portion of the Jewish population. Most of the victims were deported to Auschwitz, where around 75% of them were killed on arrival. 437,000 of Hungary's 725,000 Jews had been butchered by the time the transportations were stopped in July 1944. At the Nuremberg trials, Dieter Wisliceny affirmed that Eichmann told him he would "jump laughingly into the tomb simply because the sense of having 5 million people on his conscience would give tremendous fulfillment for him."

Eichmann was caught by U.S.A. soldiers after Germany's collapse in 1945, but he left from a detention camp and took a trip about Germany to avert re-capture. He ultimately settled in a little town in Lower Saxony, where he stayed till 1950, when he went to Argentina with the support of a group led by Catholic bishop Alois Hudal. In 1960, info gathered by Israel's espionage company, Mossad, developed his place. Eichmann was collared by a group of Mossad and Shin Bet officers and carried to Israel to face fifteen criminal charges, including but not limited to war criminal offenses, criminal offenses against humankind, and criminal activities against the Jewish people. Throughout the trial, he reasoned that he was just following orders in a totalitarian Fhrerprinzip system, instead of rejecting the Holocaust or his role in its planning. On June 1st, 1962, he was condemned of all charges and executed by hanging. The trial got prevalent media coverage and was ultimately the subject of some books, including but not limited to Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which she created the expression "the banality of evil" to specify Eichmann.