On this day, May 11, 1960, the man referred to as the “architect of the Holocaust” was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina.
Adolf Eichmann was executed two years later following a war crimes trial.
After rising through the ranks of the Nazi SS, Eichmann was put in charge of the trains that carried Jews to death camps.
When the Nazi regime fell, Eichmann was captured by the U.S. Army, but escaped to South America. He lived under a false identity working for Mercedes-Benz.
Israeli agents assigned to tracking down Nazi war criminals secretly drugged Eichmann and abducted him to face an Israeli court.
He is the only person to have been executed in Israel on a civilian court conviction.
– Scott McCabe
