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Adolf Eichmann was a loyal member of the National Socialist Party in the Third Reich and worked hard…

Adolf Eichmann was a loyal member of the National Socialist Party in the Third Reich and worked hard…

Adolf Eichmann was a loyal member of the National Socialist Party in the Third Reich and worked hard under Hitler”s government during World War II to round up Jewish people for incarceration—and eventual extermination—at labor camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After an Israeli “extraction team” took him from Argentina to Israel, he was put on trial for “crimes against humanity.” His defense was that he was “just following orders.” Explain why Eichmann was not an adherent of the natural-law school of legal thought.