Which Nazi official coordinated the deportation of European Jews during the Holocaust?

Adolf Eichmann was the Nazi official who coordinated the deportation of European Jews during the Holocaust.

Eichmann served in the SS and became a key administrator of the Nazi persecution and murder of Jews. He organized deportation schedules, coordinated with German agencies and occupied governments, and helped arrange the transportation of Jews to ghettos and killing centers. His work was bureaucratic, but it directly enabled mass murder on a continental scale.

Eichmann attended the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, where senior officials discussed coordination for the so-called Final Solution. He later played a particularly important role in the deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944.

Israeli agents captured Eichmann in Argentina in 1960. He was tried in Jerusalem in 1961, convicted, and executed in 1962. He is often described as the architect of the Holocaust, but historians distinguish his administrative role from the broader leadership and decision-making of the Nazi regime.