Eichmann: Architekt holocaustu - Zločiny, dopadení a proces, který změnil dějiny – Cílek Roman (2021)

Meticulous to the point of being pedantic, deeply religious, respected by those around him, but somewhat dull accountant Adolf Karl Eichmann, an employee of an electrical engineering company in Solingen, a Rhineland city famous for steel production and processing, was, among other qualities, also an exceedingly prolific man. A total of eight children were born into the family: seven boys and one girl. The oldest of the male offspring, born under the sign of Pisces on March 19, 1906, was given his father's first name, Adolf, as a sign of hope for his son's future success. More precisely: Adolf Otto. "I held my father in the highest possible regard. He was an unconditional authority for me," Adolf Otto Eichmann confides after many decades. The belief in unconditional authority... It cannot be overlooked as the central driving force in the reprehensible life of this man. He will always and everywhere adhere to it, from beginning to end, literal end. At a time when the Third Reich was winning on all fronts and preparing the final solution to the Jewish question, which was nothing more than a plan to murder more than ten million human beings. And likewise at the twilight of the Nazi era, when he sought to eliminate tens of thousands of local Jews in Soviet-encircled Budapest and Raoul...