Eichmann

American  

[ahyk-muhn, ahykh-, ahykh-mahn] / ˈaɪk mən, ˈaɪx-, ˈaɪxˌmɑn /

noun

1. Adolf, 1906–62, German Nazi official: executed for war crimes.

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Eichmann British  

/ ˈaiçman /

noun

1. Karl Adolf (ˈaːdɔlf). 1902–62, Austrian Nazi official, who took a leading role in organizing the extermination of the European Jews. He escaped to Argentina after World War II, but was captured and executed in Israel as a war criminal

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Example Sentences

Eichmann distanced himself not only from ordinary decency but empirical reality, “that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

Its agents in 1960 had kidnapped Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and spirited him back to Israel for trial.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

"I would say the Eichmann trial also brought perpetrators into people's living rooms," says Prof Feldman.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

Eichmann played a key role in the 1942 Wannsee Conference at which the Nazis' annihilation of European Jewry was planned, and was seen as the logistical mastermind of the Final Solution.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Adolf Eichmann, the SS official responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, escaped to Argentina, but, fifteen years later, Israeli agents tracked him down, captured him, and flew him to Israel for trial.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti