Karl Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962) was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was charged by Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe.
After the war, he fled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross. He lived in Argentina under a false identity, working for Mercedes-Benz until 1960. He was captured by Mossad operatives in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was found guilty and executed by hanging in 1962. He is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court.
Adolf Eichmann was born to a Lutheran family in Solingen, Germany. His parents were businessman and industrialist Adolf Karl Eichmann and Maria née Schefferling. After his mother died in 1914, his family moved to Linz, Austria. During the First World War, Eichmann's father served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. At the war's conclusion, Eichmann's father moved the family back to Linz where he operated a business. Eichmann left high school—Realschule—without having graduated and began training to become a mechanic, which he also discontinued. In 1923, he started working in the mining company of his father. From 1925 to 1927 he worked as a sales clerk for the Oberösterreichische Elektrobau AG and then until spring 1933 Eichmann worked as district agent for the Vacuum Oil Company AG, a subsidiary of Standard Oil. During this time he was a member of the Jungfrontkämpfervereinigung, the youth section of Hermann Hiltl's right-wing veterans movement. In July 1933 he moved back to Germany.
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A powerful new film inspired by a true story. This feature follows the heroic lives of a world leader and a young man swept up in the horrors of WWII. Both men are from Hungary--a country and German ally that had been spared the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler throughout much of Europe. As the war reaches its climax, Germany begins to doubt the loyalties of the Hungarian leadership-in particular Regent Horthy (Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley). The Regent tries to navigate his country between the growing terror of Nazi Germany and the oppressive threat of communist Russia. He is ultimately faced with ceding power to another political party or accepting the execution of his son. As the crisis unfolds, thousands of his citizens are forced underground or put into ghettos. One of them is a young man named Elek Cohen (Jonas Armstrong) who is separated from his family and determined to find them. Aided by the woman he loves (Hannah Tointon), Elek disguises himself as a Nazi SS officer and discovers the truth of Hitler's "Final Solution." In a race against time to save his family and thousands of his countrymen, he embarks on a journey filled with suspense and danger. An inspirational film of love, war, and sacrifice, WALKING WITH THE ENEMY is an unforgettable experience for audiences.
Keywords: battle, budapest, budapest-hungary, christianity, dancing, death, disguise, family-relationships, fight, friendship
Love. betrayal, death
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Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution. Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina, 15 years after World War II, Eichmann (Kretschmann), the World's most wanted man, must be broken down and the truth unveiled. As the world waits, two men must confront each other in a battle of wills- the result of which will change a nation forever.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, anal-exam, angry-mob, anti-semitism, archive-footage, baby-killer, bare-breasts, baroness
He helped conceive the ultimate horror.
Minister Tormer: There's not enough!::Avner Less: Enough what?::Minister Tormer: Enough hard evidence that his lawyer can't chip away at in court, or get him extradited to Germany. There's no death penalty in Germany. Which is ironic.
Avner Less: [after Eichmann's interrogation and trial] We showed him more justice than he ever showed us.
Adolf Eichmann: [''Eichmann and the Baroness are making out. Eichmann boasts about the number of Jews he has ordered to their deaths throughout Europe as "sex talk"''] Your ancestor would have approved my modern victory against the Orients. In six months I cleansed Vienna of every Jew.::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: You don't go far enough... while you can.::Adolf Eichmann: I don't go far enough?::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: Out of 900,000 Hungarian Jews you have killed only half a million. You're careless. You let them slip through your fingers.::Adolf Eichmann: Poland - three million Jews. Today none are left.::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: None?::Adolf Eichmann: None. After that, 120,000 Germans.::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: Jews?::Adolf Eichmann: Jews, Jews, of course Jews. More?::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: More.::Adolf Eichmann: 700,000 Russians.::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: More.::Adolf Eichmann: 75,000 French.::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: More.::Adolf Eichmann: 100,000 Dutch.::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: More.::Adolf Eichmann: More?::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: More. Not enough.::Adolf Eichmann: Over 4 million Jews are already processed.::Baroness Ingrid von Ihama: Killed. Use the right words, or you'll never become a master race.
Adolf Eichmann: [Prison guard is showing him a newspaper which reads "Eichmann Captured"] Yes, I know...
Minister Tormer: If you had done it, would you want to confess?
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Adolf Eichmann, "Chief Architect of the Holocaust" is sentenced to hang for "Crimes Against Humanity". Prior to his execution, Eichmann agrees to be visited by a cleric for spiritual guidance. This the true story of the Canadian missionary, William Hull and his wife and their attempts to get Adolph Eichmann to repent for his crimes.
Keywords: crime-against-humanity, holocaust
The struggle between righteousness and amorality. The struggle for the soul of Adolf Eichmann
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In 1960, the Israeli Secret Service learns that former SS-Lietuenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who was one of the key figures in the Jewish holocaust of World War II, is living under the assumed name Ricardo Clement in Argentina. The film thus explores the Isreali effort to capture Eichmann, as seen from the perspective of the leading agent of the project, as well as giving focus to Eichmann's own explanations as to the crimes he commited.
Keywords: 1960s, abduction, based-on-autobiography, based-on-book, based-on-memoir, buenos-aires-argentina, character-name-in-title, concentration-camp-survivor, courtroom, crime-against-humanity
His Crimes Shamed a Nation. His Capture Stunned the World.
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Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American expatriate playwright, Nazi radio propagandist, and Allied spy, writes his memoirs during his pre-trial confinement in 1961 Haifa and learns that people are what they pretend to be.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, actress, actress-playing-multiple-roles, african-american, air-raid, american, american-abroad, american-nazi
Howard W. Campbell, Jr., is the most patriotic American in the Third Reich.
The truth is more shocking than the uniform he wears... HE WAS AN AMERICAN SPY.
Be careful what you pretend to be.
George Kraft: The Brotherhood of the Walking Wounded. It's the largest organization in the world. You don't even know it exists until you're in it. You get your membership card when you lose the one thing that gives your life any meaning, the thing that binds you together. The thing that holds the group in one piece is the fact that the members are absolutely incapable of speaking to one another.
Howard W. Campbell Jr.: I was deposited on to the streets of New York, restored to the mainstream of life. I took several steps down the sidewalk when something happened. It was not guilt that froze me; I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It wasn't the fear of death; I had taught myself to think of death as a friend. It was not the thought of being unloved that froze me; I had taught myself to do without love. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction.
Black Fuhrer of Harlem: Most things in this world don't work, but aspirin do.
George Kraft: All the best writers are dead.
Howard W. Campbell Jr.: Yes, I've changed. People should be changed by World Wars or what are World Wars for.
Frank Wirtanen: Your role will remain classified, and Uncle Sam's official position is you're the scum of the earth.
Howard W. Campbell Jr.: I guess the moral here is: you must be careful what you pretend to be because in the end you are who you're pretending to be.
Frank Wirtanen: You love good, you hate evil, and you'd do anything for the sake of romance.
Resi Noth: You no longer... you no longer believe that love is the only thing to live for?::Howard W. Campbell Jr.: No.::Resi Noth: [starting to cry] Then tell me what to live for. Tell me anything. It does not have to be love. Anything at all! I will live for that chair! Or that - that picture on the wall! Or that crack on the... over there! Just tell me. Tell me what you live for and I will live for that too!
Howard W. Campbell Jr.: Do you believe you're guilty of murdering six million Jews?::Eichmann: Absolutely not.::Howard W. Campbell Jr.: [laughing] Oh, you were simply a soldier, were you, huh? Taking orders from the higher-ups, is that right, Eichmann? Like any good soldier.::Eichmann: [after pause] Campbell?::Howard W. Campbell Jr.: Yes?::Eichmann: About those six million...::Howard W. Campbell Jr.: Yes?::Eichmann: I don't take credit for all of them. I'm sure I could spare you a few.
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A precise, real-time (exactly 85 minutes - the length of the actual event) reenactment of the infamous Wannsee Conference, a meeting called in January, 1942 to map out the implementation of the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
Keywords: ammunition, annihilation, anti-semitism, asphyxiation, barbarism, berlin-germany, bolshevik, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, camouflage
Adolf Eichmann: There were women... children...::Reinhard Heydrich: Women and children are Jews too.
Reinhard Heydrich: It's dishonorable to be weaklings, which we in the SS are not.
Manhunt of the Century...For the Master Assassin!
REVEALED AT LAST! The Fifteen Year TRACKDOWN of HITLER'S Evil Butcher!
terror and trackdown that raged 'round half the world!