TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – Lifting a half-century veil of secrecy, Israel’s Mossad spy agency is opening its archive this week to reveal the story behind the legendary 1960 capture of Nazi mastermind ...
The story of the 1961 trial and 1962 execution of Nazi Adolf Eichmann has been told extensively, from Hannah Arendt’s contemporaneous book “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil” to ...
In 1961, a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, was tried in Israel and sentenced to death. An odd thing happened. Officials didn’t want to bury him and risk creating a shrine, so they ...
After Israel hanged Adolf Eichmann, they had a problem: his body. Not wanting to harbor the mass murderer’s remains, the government had an oven factory manufacture a one-time use furnace to cremate ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel made public on Wednesday a handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who was executed by Israel in 1962 following a war ...
Israel's national archives announced Monday they were granting public access online to hundreds of thousands of documents from the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers ...
JERUSALEM _ A former Israeli Mossad agent says the team that kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolph Eichmann in 1960 knowingly let another notorious war criminal — Josef Mengele — get away. Rafi Eitan was a ...
Isser Harel, the celebrated Israeli spy chief who ran the secret 1960 mission that snatched Holocaust war criminal Adolf Eichmann from anonymity in Argentina, died Feb. 18 of natural causes. He was 91 ...
From the roof of Jerusalem’s big, new community center building, green-capped security police peer down from behind machine-gun muzzles. Steel fences nine feet high keep passers-by away, and giant ...
The identity of the hangman who executed Adolf Eichmann in 1962 was kept secret for three decades. By the time Shalom Nagar’s name was unearthed by Israeli journalists, Nagar had retired from Israel’s ...
TEL AVIV, November 28. /TASS/. Shalom Nagar, who executed notorious Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in 1962, died in Israel at the age of 86, The Jerusalem Post reported. The Israeli authorities have ...
Controversial plan prompts warnings from rights groups of a discriminatory and dangerous shift in Israel’s legal system ...