Friday, December 15, 2006
This Day in History
On this day in 1961, Adolf Eichmann was convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel. He was the aide to Reinhard Heydrich, an SS Senior Group Leader who chaired and steered the Wannsee Conference into making the final solution of the Jewish question death on an industrial scale. When Heydrich was assassinated by Czech nationals trained in England, Eichmann vowed to carry out the wishes of Heydrich as a "matter of honor" and he did carry them out to the tune of 6 million Jews murdered and burned. Hanging was too good for the man, but that's what they did on June 1, 1962.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:31 AM 
