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Brittany Cook
 “Architect of the Holocaust”
 Born:
 March 19, 1906
 Cologne, Germany
 Into a middle class
protestant family
 Death:
 May 31, 1962
 One of the most feared
and hated Nazi leaders
 Responsible for the
deaths of millions of
Jews during WWII
 Mother died when he was 10 years old
 Family then moved to Linz, Austria after the death
 Poor student unlike his 3 brothers and 1 sister
 Teased as a boy for his looks and dark complexion
 Nicknamed "the little Jew"
 Went to the same secondary school Hitler had attended 15
years before
 Failed to complete his engineering studies
 Had various jobs including:
 A laborer in his father's small mining company
 Working in sales for an electrical construction company
 Traveling salesman for an American oil company
 Joined the growing Austrian Nazi Party
 April 1, 1932
 He was 26 years old
 Suggested by his friend
 Ernst Kaltenbrunner
 A feared henchman in the Holocaust
 Took part in extermination camps
 Sentenced to death in Nuremburg
 Crimes against humanity
•Ernst Kaltenbrunner
 Later became a member of the SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer
 Head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in Gestapo
 From 1941-1945
 Chief of Operations in the deportation of 3 million Jews to
extermination camps
 Organized the Wannsee Conference of January 1942
 Focused on issues related to the “Final Solution to the
Jewish Question”
 Aimed at the total extermination of European Jewry
 Trialed in Jerusalem
 Crimes against the
Jewish people
 Crimes against
humanity
 War Crimes
 Found Guilty on all
counts
 Sentenced to death
 Hanged at Ramien Prison
 On May 31, 1962, the State of Israel carried out the only
death sentence in it’s history on the man whose only
defense was “I was just following orders”
 http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/
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eichmann.htm
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmannadolf/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust
/eichmann.html
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/180925/
Adolf-Eichmann
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G23404701964.html