Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking Nazi official, known for his central role in organizing the logistics of the Holocaust during World War II. He helped devise and implement the mass deportation of Jews to concentration and extermination camps. After the war, he fled to Argentina but was captured by Israeli agents in 1960. Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem, where he defended his actions by claiming he was merely following orders. His trial raised important questions about individual responsibility and morality in the context of state-sponsored atrocities, making him a symbol of the bureaucratic nature of evil.