Analysis Of Adolf Eichmann's Innocence

Adolf Eichmann’s Innocence
Before and during World War II, at the time of the Nazi uprising, inexcusable crimes such as mass incarcerations, genocides and killings in gas chambers were committed towards most European Jews. Starting in the year of 1935 with the Nuremberg Laws, Adolf Hitler already declared Jewish people as “non-Ayrans”, followed by the destroying of synagogues and breaking of shop windows on November 8 in 1938 during the Kristallnacht (the British Library). Throughout time these crimes intensified themselves and ended up in the extermination of seven million people. Even though some may say Adolf Eichmann alone was guilty of initiating the countless, horrible “crimes against humanity” towards the jewish holocaust victims, he
However, once looking into the case thoroughly one should notice that he didn’t even have an input in the “Final Solution” established in Wannsee on the 20th of January 1942 (Trueman). Although some debate that the Wannsee Conference did not have a direct connection to the holocaust, the topics of discussion were the deportations of jews into the East, however, this being indicated only “to be considered provisional,” so that the “experience” gathered can be to “greatest importance in relation to the future final solution of the Jewish question”(minutes of the Wannsee Conference published by C N Trueman). Nonetheless, Eichmann was barely involved in establishing this and was only called upon to take the minutes, notes of the conference, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, the SS-Obergruppenfuehrer. In addition, Heydrich had the initiative of putting gas chambers into use, by keeping close contact with the investigators of the T4 program (the killings of the incurable ill, mentally or physically disabled and elderly people) and Heydrich then adapted the program for a new purpose, due to seeing new “possibilities offered by this killing technology”(Tony Joel, Mathew Turner). Therefore Eichmann could not have given the main orders to put the millions of killings of jews into place, because
Another Nazi leader above Eichmann, was Heinrich Himmler, who even gave the orders of the destroying and burning of files after each action taken place at the concentration camp of Auschwitz, to Eichmann (the HDON, holocaust denial on trial). Furthermore, another example of Himmler’s crimes was the decision of the liquidation in the Lodz ghetto, the second largest ghetto in all of former German-occupied-Europe, on June 10, 1944 (Jennifer Rosenberg). To not get into trouble and danger, Eichmann had to protect himself from the Nazi leaders, as well as trying to look after his family of four sons; Klaus, Horst Adolf, Dieter Helmut and Riccardo. Even though Adolf Eichmann followed some gruesome orders, he still must have had a heart for his sons, which is also shown by the effect their father had on them. In an interview with British media in 1995, Riccardo Eichmann tells about his experience as a five-year-old with his father; “‘I remember him holding my hand and taking me to the bus stop...And I remember sitting outside on the step every evening thinking, when will my daddy come home?’” (International Business Times). Clearly Eichmann must have had a strong connection to his children, alone by the way Riccardo describes him, that would have been important enough for him to stay working with