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My name is Otto Adolf Eichmann. I was born on 19 March 1906, in Solingen, Northern Germany. After not doing well in school, I decided to briefly work for my father's mining company in Austria, where my family had moved in 1914. In 1932 we both joined the Nazi Party and the SS. I returned to Germany in 1933, where I joined the SD, Sicherheitsdienst ; especially emigration, which my colleagues encouraged through violence and economic pressure. After the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, me and my staff arranged for Jews to be concentrated in ghettos in major cities with the expectation that they would be transported either farther east or overseas. I do not think I am guilty. I claim not to be an anti-Semite and I disagree with the vulgar anti-Semitism of the Nazi demagogus Julius Streicher and others who contributed to Der Stürmer. I have read Theodor Herzl’s The Jewish State but I had never read Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. I was just an obedient bureaucrat and I merely carried out my assigned duties. Although, I did not violate any law and I am the kind of man who cannot tell a lie. I couldn’t help myself; I had orders, but I had nothing to do with that business. When I heard about the gassing installations, I was horrified. My nerves weren’t strong enough. I couldn’t listen to such things, without them affecting me. I didn’t look inside; I couldn’t! What I saw and heard was enough. The screaming and all of it…I was much too shaken and so on. I continued to oversee the deportation of victims and I kept his distance from the actual killing.