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A copy of a secret memo written by Franz Rademacher, the deputy minister of the Abteilung Deutschland (German Department), addressed to Adolf Eichmann's department regarding the deportation of 6000 French Jews to Auschwitz. The document was introduced as evidence during Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem in 1961.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 03580
A copy of a secret memo written by Franz Rademacher, the deputy minister of the Abteilung Deutschland (German Department), addressed to Adolf Eichmann's department regarding the deportation of 6000 French Jews to Auschwitz. The document was introduced as evidence during Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem in 1961.

A copy of a secret memo written by Franz Rademacher, the deputy minister of the Abteilung Deutschland (German Department), addressed to Adolf Eichmann's department regarding the deportation of 6000 French Jews to Auschwitz. The document was introduced as evidence during Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem in 1961.

Date
1942 March 20
Locale
Berlin, [Berlin] Germany
Variant Locale
Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Designation
PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Trials: By country -- Israel -- Eichmann Trial -- Evidence
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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Event History
Following his kidnapping from Argentina by Israeli agents, former SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Adolf Eichmann was put on trial in Jerusalem in April 1961. Eichmann was charged on fifteen different counts in connection with his activities as the head of RSHA department IVB4, responsible for carrying out the "final solution" of the so-called Jewish Question. The most significant of the charges focused on Eichmann's crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Also, as a former member of the SS and SD, Eichmann was charged with being a member of an organization declared criminal by the IMT at Nuremberg in October 1946. The trial lasted until December 15, 1961, when the court declared Eichmann guilty on all counts and sentenced him to death. Eichmann's defense subsequently lodged an appeal, but after it was rejected by the Israeli Supreme Court on May 29, 1962, Eichmann was executed by hanging on the night of May 31, 1962.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005179.

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Photo Source
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Source Record ID: 238
Published Source
In Pursuit of Justice: Examining the Evidence of the Holocaust - USHMM - p. 177
 
Record last modified: 2003-06-13 00:00:00
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