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After the end of World War II, Nazi war criminals were arrested and tried, but many of the top Nazis absconded abroad. Among them, there was an "executioner" who was listed by the Israelis as the number one hunt: Adolf. Eichmann.
Pictured: Adolf. Eichmann
Eichmann was a senior SS officer who was involved in the formulation of the "Final Solution for Jews" during World War II, personally responsible for the massacre of Jews in concentration camps, known as the "executioners", and was one of the 6 million Jewish victims.
After the war, Eichmann was briefly captured by the Americans, but he escaped and lurked for five years, and in 1950 he obtained a false pass from the International Red Cross and fled to Argentina under the pseudonym "Ricardo Clemente".
Pictured: Eichmann's camouflaged ID
At first, Eichmann worked in a factory in a small town, then moved to Tucumán, where he welcomed his wife and two children in 1952 and the family moved to Buenos Aires, where he found work at Mercedes-Benz and rose to the position of head of department. The family, who live on the outskirts of 14 Via Garibaldi, is usually very low-key, taking a bus to the factory in the morning and returning home on time in the evening.
Pictured: Stills from the movie, anonymized Eichmann
If it weren't for an accident, the anonymous Nazi executioner would have died here.
The accident came from his "pit daddy" son.
A German Jew living in Argentina discovers that his daughter is dating a young man named Nicholas, who does not know they are Jews, has publicly flaunted his father's exploits in the Nazis, and has not shy away from calling his real surname "Eichmann".
Pictured: Stills from the movie, Eichmann's son flaunting secrets
The Jewish father quickly reported this important information to the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, who sent agents to Argentina for 24-hour surveillance and confirmed that the bald middle-aged man with glasses was Eichmann himself.
Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion did an arbitrary thing by not asking Argentina for extradition (because argentina had a precedent of refusing to extradite nazis), but ordering an elite team of agents to be kidnapped and returned home.
Pictured: Stills from the movie, the Mossad team that captured Eichmann
On the evening of May 11, 1960, seven agents drove two sedans to the bus station where Eichmann left work every night from the Mercedes-Benz factory, and they opened the hood and pretended to repair it, waiting for Eichmann's arrival.
It was almost 8 o'clock when a bus arrived late and a man got out of it. The agent recognized him as Eichmann, and one of the agents got out of the car and spoke to him in Spanish, Eichmann was wary of turning and leaving, and three agents immediately stepped forward and twisted him to the ground, and one of them shoved his gloved hand into Eichmann's mouth, just in case he hid the cyanide pill in his teeth.
Pictured: Stills from the movie, The Capture of Eichmann
Eichmann was pushed into the car, and one agent pointed a gun at Eichmann and said, "If you dare to move, kill you." Eichmann muttered in German: "I accept fate." ”
It took 10 years to lurk and only 10 minutes to be caught.
After Eichmann was captured, agents locked him up in a safe house for interrogation, further confirming his identity. The agents gave Eichmann a new pair of glasses because his original glasses had broken off when he was arrested. The glasses are made of plastic to prevent suicide by cutting the wrist using glass. Eichmann was so distraught that even the agents were a little surprised, thinking that this terrible Nazi should be more sinister and tough than it looked.
Pictured: Agent gloves during the capture of Eichmann
Nine days later, they took off home in an EL AL plane carrying an official Israeli delegation celebrating Argentina's 150th anniversary. Eichmann was injected with sedatives, sat in first class in uniform, and faked to be a sick crew member.
Pictured: Syringe during Eichmann's capture
After being taken back to Israel, Eichmann was charged with 15 counts, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. On December 15, 1961, Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court and hanged on May 31 of the following year, with his ashes scattered into the sea.
Pictured: Eichmann in an Israeli courtroom
The Israelis' abduction of the Nazi culprit across half the world won worldwide shock and recognition, but the Argentine government was enraged and applied to the United Nations for an emergency meeting to condemn Israel's actions as a violation of its sovereignty and even expelled the Israeli ambassador. It was not until four months later that normal relations between the two countries resumed.
Pictured: The pursuit of the murderer shocked the world
It was not until February 2005 that the Mossad officially admitted to Eichmann's abduction.