Adolf Eichmann

Good Evening ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we are here today to decide the fate of Adolf Eichmann. I am going to begin my defensive argument by telling all of you a little bit about Adolf Eichmann, and how he got in this predicament. Adolf Eichmann has always been a normal everyday person. He has had many different jobs. He has worked for his father’s mining company, worked in sales, and he even went door to door as a traveling salesman. Wanting to better his future, he joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1932. Eichmann had no idea what Adolf Hitler had in store for the Jews. Eichmann was eventually moved up to lieutenant colonel of the German Army. When someone makes a commitment like joining the German Army, it is that person’s duty to follow orders. Nazi soldiers didn’t have a choice to say “No, I don’t want to do that because I don’t believe it is right.” Their opinion no longer mattered anymore, especially to Adolf Hitler. All Nazi soldiers had to follow all orders Adolf Hitler gave, including Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann states in his final plea “Once again I will stress that am guilty if having been obedient, having subordinated myself to my official duties and the obligations of war service and my oath of allegiance and my oath of office, and in addition, once the war started there was also martial…

Adolf Eichmann Before the horrific events of the holocaust, Adolf Eichmann was German born high school dropout living in Austria, traveling with odd jobs during the 1920’s until a friend recruits him into the Austrian National Socialist (Nazi) Party, and soon after the SS. From this entry point into the Nazi regime, Eichmann began moving upwards through the Austrian League, eventually securing a position as a Sergeant in the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). There, his duties focused primarily…

April, 2016 Adolf Eichmann This picture shows Adolf Eichmann as a child. Adolf Eichmann was born in Germany on March 19, 1906 into a Protestant family (“Adolf Eichmann: Timeline”). The Eichmann family moved to Austria after his mother died (“Adolf Eichmann: Timeline”). Adolf Eichmann was teased constantly as a child for having Jewish facial qualities; they nicknamed him The Little Jew Boy (“Adolf EIchmann-Biography”). This was the beginning of Adolf Eichmann’s resentment of Jews. Had Adolf…

experiment. Lessing only states the small portion of the experiment helping her statement. She leaves out a part of the experiment that talks about if the person has the ability to remain anonymous there is a much greater chance the person won’t conform to the group. When you compare Lessing’s article to Stanley Milgram’s article on obedience to authority, they both present good ideas about authority but very in showing evidence. While Lessing doesn’t have much evidence to back up her ideas,…

One of the most famous studies in psychology was done by Stanley Milgram (theatlantic.com). In 1961, Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, created an experiment to study obedience (simplypsychology.org). The experiment showed “that most people will hurt their fellows rather than disobey authority,” as said in Milgram’s words (harpercollins.com). The same experiment was performed again for television in 2007 that yielded close results. Could people really be capable of hurting others if…

breakdown that resulted in his coping mechanism, laughing. He could not deviate from being obedient. In a sense, his inclination to obedience took control of his actions. Mr. Braverman’s particular situation is interesting. He could not stop being obedient even if he wanted to. It was as if he lost control of his psyche. Additionally, Mr. Braverman’s wife suggests he call himself Adolf Eichmann, the German soldier who excused his involvement in World War II on the basis that he was just…

Several Jewish committees believed that such an effort would be "a perpetual memorial to the weakness and defenselessness of the Jewish people” and would "not be in the best interests of Jewry" (Kindle Locations 2279-2281). The Jewish population did not want to associate themselves with victimhood following the war until after the 1961. Even the popularization of The Diary of Anne Frank was met with a downplay of her Jewish identity and more concentration her coming of age story. The 1961 event…

At the German concentration camps, Josef Mengele, conducted depraved experiments by developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses. Many of the people he performed experiments on were Jews and twins. Most of them were tested against their will. He and other doctors performed many experiments, such as the malaria experiments, mustard gas experiments, pharmaceutical testing, spotted fever (typhus) experiments, sulfanilamide experiments, and experiments with…

We humans doubt our actions when we fight our own battles. The author of The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal, went through a sentimental battle. He was a Jew in the Holocaust, while working one day he was taken by a nurse to meet a SS Nazi soldier who was close to death. This SS Nazi soldier surprisingly told Wiesenthal, a Jew in the Holocaust, about all the crimes and death he has done and then he asked for forgiveness for all the people he has killed or potentially hurt. The author Wiesenthal…

In September first, 1939, the German Army invaded Poland marking the start of the Second World War: A six-year conflict between two sets of military alliances, the Allied forces and the Axis powers. During this period, the world witnessed an increasing hatred towards Europe’s minorities, including Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and Slavs among others who did not fit into the Nazi superior “Aryan” race. Although the European Theater had been in war for almost two years, The United States did not…