also worked as a travelling salesman for an American oil company. In 1932, at age 26, he joined the growing Austrian Nazi Party, and was sworn in as a member of the SS, thus beginning the infamous military career of Adolf Eichmann.Eichmann left Austria and traveled to Berlin, once there, he was attached to the SD, Sicherheitsdienst, the Security Service of the SS under the direction of Reinhard Heydrich. This section of the SS was dedicated to intelligence work. In his original SD post, Eichmann was assigned the task of collecting information on the Freemasons. At this time, Eichmann was convinced that the Freemasons were collaborating with the Jews to dominate the world. Eichmann was a hard worker who was consistently complemented by his superiors. When Heinrich Himmler decided to create his Scientific Museum for Jewish Affairs as a section of the SD, he appointed Eichmann to head this project. After sometime had passed, Eichmann had won the reputation around the Nazi circles as the Partys leading authority on Jewish affairs. His immediate goal was to combine his work as an intelligence agent with his growing knowledge as an expert on Jews (Papadatos 121). It secretly delighted Eichmann that he discovered in a report filed as Top Secret that Hitlers cook was 1/32 Jewish. (Shirer 189) Being an expert on Jewish affairs, Eichmann was assigned the task of investigating possible solutions to the Jewish question. In 1937, he visited Palestine to discuss the possibility of a large-scale immigration of Jews to the Middle East. Then he went to Cairo to meet with Amin el Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who was known as a Jew hater and a Nazi admirer. Yet, when he tried to return to Palestine, the Palestine Mandate authorities refused to allow him access to Jerusalem. Eichmann then returned to Berlin disappointed in what he classified as an unsuccessful mission.After the Nazi takeover of Austria in March of 1938, Eichmann was sent...
