When Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann escaped from the Allied forces that had captured him after World War II, he disappeared and was presumed dead by some — but Israel’s first Prime Minister David ...

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Counsel for Adolf Eichmann, sentenced here by the District Court last Friday to hanging for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity, filed notice today of an appeal to the Israel ...

The Central Intelligence Agency discovered that Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi fugitive who escaped American custody just after World War II, was captured by Israeli agents in 1960 the same way the rest of ...

Adolf Eichmann declared under oath today, to a tense and rapt court: “I regard the extermination of the Jews as the gravest crime in human history.” The statement came after he first refused to answer ...

Sixty years ago, on Dec. 15, 1961, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death, following one of the most publicized trials in history. Improbably, it became the basis of a Superman comic ...

Gabriel Bach, a member of the Israeli team that prosecuted Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, died Friday. He was 94. Bach, a former Israeli Supreme Court justice, also served as a state prosecutor and ...

BUENOS AIRES — In the passport photo he is a balding figure with round spectacles, his bow tie slightly askew, his expression sober, tinged with a trace of irritation, as if this whole exercise was ...

This rebroadcast originally aired on July 15, 2022. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended ...