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.
Ten days later, drugged and dressed as a crew member of Israeli flag carrier El Al, he was smuggled to the Jewish state by Mossad agents and put on trial.
The architect of the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” under which six million European Jews were exterminated during World War II, Eichmann was tried and hanged in 1962, aged 56.
Sixty years on, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has revealed the identity of the man believed to have sparked the dramatic capture and eventual trial, releasing a never-before-published photo of Eichmann reportedly passed on to the Mossad, and central to its decision to pursue him.
