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Eich⋅mann

  [ahyk-muhn, ahykh-; Ger. ahykh-mahn]
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Adolf, 1906–62, German Nazi official: executed for war crimes.
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Eich·mann   (īk'mən, īKH'-, īKH-män')   
German Nazi official who as head of the Gestapo's Jewish section (1939-1945) was chiefly responsible for the murder of millions of Jews during World War II. After the war he fled to South America, was captured by the Israeli secret service (1960), and was tried and executed in Israel.
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Eichmann, Adolf [(eyek-muhn, eyekh-muhn)]

A Nazi official who was responsible for the torture and killing of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. He escaped capture immediately after World War II but was apprehended in Argentina fifteen years later by agents of Israel. In Israel, he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged.

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