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It was perfectly clear to me that this order spelled the death of mill — Adolf Eichmann

"It was perfectly clear to me that this order spelled the death of millions of people. I said to Eichmann, God grant that our enemies never have the opportunity of doing the same to the German people, in reply to which Eichmann told me not to be sentimental; it was an order of the Fuhrers and would have to be carried out."
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Adolf Eichmann
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Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard H

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