How is Adolf Eichmann an important figure in the novel, Time’s Arrow?

Although only briefly mentioned in the novel for sharing Odilo's hometown of Solingen, Eichmann played a very large part in the real "final solution" for the Jews in which Odilo's character participated. As "Transportation Administrator" for the German Reich, he was responsible for the efficiency in which millions of Jews were moved to concentration camps from 1942-1944. He was acknowledged as saying he was responsible for sending five million Jews to their deaths.