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Germany Knew Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before Capture

After 15 years on the run, justice finally caught up with Adolf Eichmann on May 11, 1960. The Nazi war criminal -- who organized the deportation of millions of Jews to death camps in German-occupied Poland -- was kidnapped outside his Buenos Aires home by Mossad agents and brought to trial in Israel. He was found guilty of...

Book: Nazi Hunter Worked for Israeli Spy Agency

(Sept. 3) -- Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal was long believed to work alone in his tireless obsession to find Adolf Hitler's war comrades, but a new book asserts he often really worked for the Israeli spy agency Mossad. According to "Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends," a book released this week by Israeli historian and...

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Karl Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962) was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.

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