Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi official who organized the logistics of the Holocaust, coordinating the deportation of millions of Jews to concentration camps.

After World War II, he fled to Argentina, where Israeli agents captured him in 1960.

His trial in Jerusalem became a landmark event in Holocaust remembrance.

Hannah Arendt's coverage introduced the phrase the banality of evil to describe how ordinary bureaucrats enable atrocities.

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