Adolf Eichmann

[[Image:OldEichmann.jpg|225px|thumb|Adolf Eichmann, Germany 1940

Pre-Nazi years

When Eichmann came of age in 1925, he returned to Austria to study mechanical engineering. Being a poor student, however, he soon dropped out of college. Eichmann then tried to follow in his father's footsteps in business, working as a travelling salesman which brought him back to Germany in 1930.

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Eichmann's first contact with the Nazi Party was when he joined the Wandervogel movement, which has been described as "a peasant Aryan brotherhood based on Anti-Semitic ideals". There is evidence, however, that some of the Wandervogel groups had Jewish members, and anti-Semitism may have existed in only some parts of the movement. In 1932, Eichmann returned again to Austria and formally joined the Austrian Nazi Party at the age of twenty-six.

Related Topics:
Nazi Party - Wandervogel - 1932

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