Adolf Eichmann Research Paper

Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany in the year 1906. His childhood in the Rhineland during the Great Depression provided him with the perfect background needed to perform his future horrific tasks. As a member of a strongly German nationalist family, he was taught that the Germans were the immaculate superior race to all others. As a child, he had joined the Wandervogel youth, which supported these ideals. Eichmann joined the Nazi party later on in 1932 through the urging of a family friend. After completing school, he began working for his father before transferring to an electrical engineering firm. Eichmann eventually joined another oil company, where he learned many practical skills he would use later on such as arranging kerosene deliveries and locating sites for petrol stations. These aspects of life growing up set Adolf Eichmann up for the future that lay ahead.
He first worked there as a clerk before joining the Jewish section under the mentorship of Edler von Mildenstein, who was in charge of finding a suitable solution to the “Jewish Question”. In response, Mildenstein encouraged Eichmann to study Jewish customs they could better understand the “enemy”. Eichmann then began researching a, “...Zionist emigration of Jews from Germany by all means” (www.ushmm.org). He looked into a possible Jewish migration to Palestine, resulting in an investigation of Palestine in 1937. Although this attempt to rid Germany of Jews was fruitless, it prepared him for future projects and proved to his commanders he was willing to put the needed effort