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.
At Weiden, POW camp Eichmann changed his identity with ease, he was arrested as a Luftwaffe Corporal Bart or Barth, then realising that officers were exempt from compulsory labour, he became SS –Untersturmfuhrer Otto Eckmann.
Eichmann and Janisch were moved to another camp at Ober- Dachstetten, in Franconia, Janisch was removed to another camp, fearful of discovery and alone Eichmann considered committing suicide.
The evidence provided by many former associates within the SS at the International Military Tribunal held in Nuremburg, meant that it was only a matter time before he was apprehended, and brought to justice, for his part in the destruction of European Jewry.
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