Adolf Eichmann
Born | March 19, 1906 |
Hometown | Solingen, Germany |
Height | 5'9" (1.76m) |
Spouse | Veronika Liebl (m 1935 - 1962) |
Children | Ricardo Eichmann , Horst Adolf , Dieter Helmut , Klaus |
Parents | Adolf Karl Eichmann , Maria |
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‘They’re old but they’re still guilty’: last Nazi hunter in a race against time. Efraim Zuroff watched the Adolf Eichmann trial on TV 60 years ago. It was the beginning of his long quest for justice
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US and German intelligence protected former Gestapo general from prosecution
New details have emerged of how a former Gestapo general who sent tens of thousands of Jews to their deaths was protected from prosecution by US and West German intelligence after the Second World War. SS-General Franz Josef Huber served as head of the Gestapo in Vienna and much of Austria following the Nazi takeover. He worked closely with Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, and personally ordered the deportation of Austrian Jews to concentration camps. Yet while Eichmann was captur
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Felicien Kabuga captured: Africa's most wanted and the mastermind behind Rwandan genocide seized in Paris
French police seized the man regarded as the intellectual and financial mastermind behind the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, ending a transcontinental 26-year manhunt for “the Eichmann of Africa”. Félicien Kabuga, Africa’s most wanted fugitive, was arrested in the northern outskirts of Paris after a dawn raid on his flat in the commune of Asnières-sur-Seine. Officers said the 84 year-old had been living there under an assumed identity. French authorities released few details about the operation,
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The Mossad mission to capture architect of Holocaust
On May 11, 1960, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was nabbed by a team of Israeli spies after years on the run in Argentina, ending a long manhunt.
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60 years on, Israel prosecutor recalls Eichmann trial
Days after Israel's spectacular announcement that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann had been captured and brought to Israel for trial, Gabriel Bach was given an assignment that forever changed his life.
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Think Again by Jan Morris review – diary of a remarkable writer
Think Again by Jan Morris review – diary of a remarkable writerUnfettered by time and space ... this beguiling journal opens a window on to a long and well-remembered life
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Rafi Eitan: Israeli intelligence chief who kidnapped Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and brought him to justice
The man was Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of Hitler’s “final solution”, and one of the most-wanted Nazis in the world. Inside the car were agents of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. In 1999, the Welsh author Gordon Thomas published a book, Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad.
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Rafi Eitan: Israeli spy who led operation to capture Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann dies aged 92
Rafi Eitan, the legendary Israeli spy who led the operation to capture the architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, has died aged 92. Eitan died after being hospitalised in Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported. “Rafi was among the heroes of the intelligence services of the State of Israel on countless missions on behalf of the security of Israel,” prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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Spymaster behind the capture of Adolf Eichmann dies aged 92
Rafi Eitan oversaw a controversial espionage operation against the US during which he recruited a naval intelligence analyst, which ultimately led to his resignation. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters Rafi Eitan, a renowned and controversial Israeli spymaster who masterminded the capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Holocaust, has died aged 92. The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him a “hero of the Israeli intelligence services”. The Mossad director, Yossi C
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Rafi Eitan: Mossad spy who captured Holocaust architect Eichmann dies age 92
Rafi Eitan was called a ‘hero of the Israeli intelligence services’ after the 1960 operation to bring Eichmann to trial in Jerusalem.
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