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Adolf Eichmann was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-Colonel) in Nazi Germany and as such responsible for organizing the deportation of Jews in Germany and all of the German-controlled territories. He was head of the department IV B 4 in the SS-Main Security Office (German: Reichsicherheitshauptamt). After World War II Eichmann fled to Argentina where, in 1960, he was abducted by Israeli Mossad agents and taken to Israel. On April 10, 1961, in the Jerusalem District Court, Eichmann was tried for being a member of an "enemy organization" and for "crimes against humanity," "crimes against the Jewish people," and "war crimes." The head prosecutor was Israeli attorney-general Gideon Hausner. The presiding judge was Justice Moshe Landau. The trial was overseen by Justice Benjamin Halevi and Yizhak Raveh. Eichmann's lawyer, Robert Servatius (Servatius also served as a defense attorney in the Nuremberg Trials), argued the trial had no legal grounds based on jurisdiction, the validity of the current laws in application to Eichmann, and the inability of Eichmann to receive a fair trial. Servatius's assertions were refuted and the trial proceeded. During the trial the prosecution presented over one hundred witnesses and 1600 documents as evidence of Eichmann's guilt. Eichmann was found guilty of all charges on December 15, 1961. He received the death sentence. Eichmann appealed the verdict but was denied. On June 1, 1962, Eichmann was executed by hanging in the Ramleh Prison near Tel Aviv, Israel. (en-US)

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State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, ed. Death Books from Auschwitz: Remnants. 3 vol. : Reports. München & New Providence: K.G. Saur, 1995. p. 251

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• processi per crimini di guerra