who was eichmann
Adolf Eichmann SS official in charge of deporting European Jewry. Germany, 1940. After the defeat of the Third Reich in May 1945 Adolf Eichmann, the RSHA specialist on Jewish matters, was arrested by the American forces near Ulm, along with his long-standing adjutant SS-Obersturmfuhrer Rudolf Janisch. The two men were taken to the prisoner of war camp at Weiden in the Upper Palinate.