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

In her much-misunderstood essay on Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt emphasized not his evil but his “sheer thoughtlessness.”

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

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

Nagar, a prison guard at the facility where Eichmann was kept, was chosen for the task and did not volunteer.

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