Died begging for his life.
I was not aware of this.
Since Adolf Eichmann did not help create the policy of the Final Solution, he cannot accurately be described as one of its "main architects". Such a title belongs to Reinhardt Heydrich at the command of Herman Göring. It was Heydrich who was in charge of the Einsatzgruppen in the East, carrying-out the final solution without bothering to supply death camps. Eichmann was not involved with this aspect. Heydrich also issued the orders to his Gestapo machinery to do what was necessary in the West to prepare for deportations of Jews. Eichmann was not in that chain of responsibility either. It did fall to SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) Eichmann, as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) IV-B-4 (Jewish Affairs) manager to organize the actual deportations. Eichmann was obeying orders which he received from the Chief of IV-4, SS-Sturmbannführer Hartl who in turn received his instructions from RSHA IV (Gestapo) Chief, SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) Müller who took his orders from Heydrich. Eichmann, it can be seen, was far from being an architect of the final solution and more of a glorified train timetable clerk. This is what he attempted to explain to the Israeli court.
What you wrote is the familiar Israeli line and an exaggeration of Eichmann's rôle in the final solution. Yes, Eichmann was at Wannsee but he only kept the minutes. He was, (please do not take offense), a glorified secretary and not a person with any agency. Your attempt to make him a player of any importance is a misrepresentation of the facts. Heydrich was assassinated in June 1942 but by then the Einsatzgruppen had been active for almost three years in the East and whose actions contributed in a major way to what became known as the Final Solution under Heydrich's command. The Gestapo had been under orders from Heydrich in the West to process Jews for transport to concentration and death camps even before the Wannsee Conference at which the green light was given for the Final Solution. In September 1941 extermination of prisoners was taking place at Auschwitz. On 13 October 1941, three months before Wannsee, the SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik stationing in Lublin received an oral order from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to start immediate construction work on the killing center at Bełżec in the Generalgouvernement territory of occupied Poland. By then, the gassings at Kulmhof north of Łódź using gas vans began already in December 1941, under Sturmbannführer Herbert Lange. The camp at Bełżec was operational by March 1942, the month of Heydrich's death. The Final Solution was underway before Heydrich's death and who was one of the principal architects. Naturally very many were involved in its implementation among whom was Eichmann.
Wrong, I stand for the truth. Your words are nothing but revisionism, the same twisted logic and falsehoods that the neo-nazis write about. Just like a previous poster in this forum who made the claim that the pool they used to store water in Auschwitz was a swimming pool.
Everything youve said merely confirms what Ive already said about Heydrich's death before the death camps opened. Your previous post claimed that it was Heydrich who oversaw it all and now youre changing your story again, just like the revisionists. In fact it was Eichmann who took over and by then he was receiving his orders directly from Heinrich Himmler. The Nazis under Hitler always had overlapping commands and responsibilities- and that was done on purpose. However when it came to transporting all Jewish populations for liquidation it was Eichmann's department that handled it all- this was the directive that was put in place after Wannsee.
Eichmann was not a station master- this has been told time and time again to you. Eichmann himself admitted that he was in charge of all transportation for the Final Solution.The prime example of this is Hungary- the moment the Nazis invaded, Eichmann went over there and personally ordered the deportation of close to half a million Jews to the death camps. It was his personal involvement that made this possible- even when the Hungarian government wanted it to stop.
Wrong. Very wrong. Eichmann was a vicious anti-semite who made it his personal crusade to kill as many Jews as possible- he did it to avenge Heydrich's death and to honor his superior's wishes. He himself admitted this.
