He joined the SS at a very early age, and directed the Bureau for Jewish Affairs in Vienna, in 1938. In 1939, when the RSHA (Central Administration for Security of the Reich) was created, he was also responsible for Central and eastern european Jews in the areas under German control. A skillful organizer, Eichman was in charge of the policy of deportation for European Jewry. After the War, he succeeded in escaping to Argentina where he lived under a false name. Abducted by the Israelis in 1960, he was judged in Jerusalem during a world-famous trial in the course of which many Shoah survivors testified. Eichman was hanged in 1962.
