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Reproduction released 29 May, 2007 in Buenos Aires of the forged passport used by Nazi official Adolf Eichmann to escape from Germany to Argentina, which he got through the delegation to the International Red Cross Committee in 1950. The passport was recently found in federal tribunals in Argentina by judge Maria Servini de Cubria and donated to the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires.
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BUENOS AIRES (AFP)---The passport used by notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann to enter Argentina in 1950 has been found by accident in an archive in Buenos Aires, a Holocaust museum said on Tuesday.
The passport, still in good condition, was issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva to Eichmann, one of the main executors of Adolf Hitler’s "final solution" -- the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II.
A judge, Maria Servini de Cubria, stumbled upon the document in court archives. The passport has been handed over to the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires, which confirmed the discovery to AFP.
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This document released 30 May, 2007 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva shows ed Cross Travel document n° 100'940 with the name of Ricardo Klement alias Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. AFP Copyright 2007 |
After Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allies, Eichmann fled to Argentina where he was tracked down and kidnapped by the Israeli secret services.
He was sentenced to death in 1961 after a trial in Jerusalem and executed by hanging the following year.
Eichmann recommended improvements to the gas ovens used for mass murder in concentration camps where six million Jews were killed during World War II.
