The Promotion of Adolf Eichmann

From: Chief of the Security Police & SD, Berlin SW 11
October 9,1941.
To: Reichsführer-SS SS Personnel Office, Berlin
Re: SS-Stürmbannführer Adolf Eichmann SS No. 45326

"I request the promotion of SS-Stürmbannführer Adolf Eichmann to Oberstürmbannführer, effective November 9, 1941. I propose this promotion on the strength of Eichmann's outstanding performance. As head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration, he has made an important contribution to the de-Judification of the Ostmark. Thanks to Eichmann's efforts, enormous amounts of money and property have been secured for the German Reich. His work in the Protectorate, performed with unusual initiative and the requisite hardness, was also excellent… At present Eichmann is handling all questions concerning evacuation and resettlement. Because of the importance of this work I regard Eichmann's promotion as desirable in the interest of the service…"