Adolf Eichmann

Abstract

In targeting the men responsible for the “Final Solution,” Morgen eventually set his sights on Adolf Eichmann, who played the crucial role of organizing the deportation of victims to the extermination centers. Morgen recounts the episode in his testimony at Nuremberg:¹

I petitioned the SS Court at Berlin to carry out the investigations into Eichmann on the basis of my leads.² The SS Court in Berlin thereupon submitted to the chief of the Reich Security Main Office, SS Obergruppenführer Kaltenbrunner, in his capacity as highest judge, a warrant to arrest Eichmann.

Dr. Bachmann reported to me that this submission resulted in dramatic scenes.³

Kaltenbrunner immediately called in Müller, and now the judge was told that an arrest was in no event to be considered, for Eichmann was carrying out a special secret task of utmost importance entrusted to him by the Führer.