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second lieutenant).
March 1938
 
German troops enter Austria; Hitler announces that Austria is now united with Germany. Eichmann is transferred to Vienna with instructions to streamline the process of expelling Jews from Austria.
August 1938
 
Creation of Central Bureau for Emigration of Jews from Austria. Eichmann is in charge of this human “conveyor belt.”
November 9, 1938
 
Following the murder of a German diplomat in Paris by a Jew avenging his parents’ deportation from Germany to the Polish border, the Nazi regime conducts a massive, coordinated wave of violence against Reich Jewry. Known as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, the event results in the murder of nearly one hundred Jews and the destruction of synagogues and Jewish personal property.
September 1939
 
Germany invades Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany.
October 1939
 
Eichmann orchestrates the expulsion of thousands of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) from Germany, Austria, and Bohemia-Moravia to Nisko, a distant area of Poland where they endure significant hardship. Eichmann implements a previously scheduled deportation transport to Nisko even after Hitler orders a halt to the deportations.
1939–40
 
With the formation of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA), the Reich Main Security Office, Eichmann transfers from the SD (RSHA III) to the Gestapo (RSHA IV).
1941
 
Hannah Arendt emigrates from France to the United States. Eichmann transfers from RSHA IV D4 (deportations) to RSHA IV B4 (Jewish affairs).
September 1941
 
First mass gassings at Auschwitz.
November 1941
 
Eichmann is promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer (SS lieutenant colonel).
1941
 
Former mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al Husseini, after participating in a failed pro-German coup in Iraq, flees to Italy and remains in exile in Italy and Germany until the end of World War II.
December 1941
 
Abba Kovner, leader of the Vilna (Vilnius) resistance fighters, calls for active resistance against the Nazis.
December 1941
 
Gassings using vans at Chelmno, Poland.
January 1942
 
Wannsee Conference, in which RSHA chief and SS General Reinhard Heydrich notified other Nazi civilian leaders of plans for the Final Solution. Eichmann helps prepare Heydrich’s materials for the conference and writes up the minutes afterward.
1942–44
 
Eichmann, as director of the Reich Main Security Office section IV B4 (Jewish affairs), organizes the deportations of Jews from Europe, with the exceptions of the Generalgouvernement, the occupied Soviet Union, and Serbia, to killing centers, killing sites, and camps.
1944
 
The Polish-born jurist Raphael Lemkin publishes his Axis Rule in Occupied Europe , in which he introduces the word “genocide,” which he coined to describe the extermination of an entire people.
March 19, 1944
 
Germans occupy Hungary. Eichmann arrives accompanied by detachment of a dozen deportation experts with the intent of deporting all the Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Austro-Hungarian border.
April–May 1944
 
Concentration of Hungarian Jews by Hungarian gendarmerie begins in the provinces.
May 15–July 9, 1944
 
Hungarian gendarmerie, working with Eichmann’s RSHA Special Detachment of SS functionaries, deports some 440,000 Hungarian Jews from Hungary. The vast majority arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the SS selects about 110,000 for forced labor and sends the rest to the gas chambers. July 7, 1944, Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy stops the deportation of Hungarian Jews. Eichmann helps contravene the order and additional trains are dispatched. (Two final trains are dispatched by Eichmann in August.)
August 18, 1944
 
As a result of negotiations between Eichmann and Israel Kasztner, the first of two transports of Hungarian Jews leaves, ostensibly for Switzerland. The train is sent instead to Bergen-Belsen, where its passengers remain for approximately five months before they are then dispatched to Switzerland. Many of the passengers pay large