He was the hangman chosen to carry out the sentence on the fugitive Nazi war criminal, in Israel’s only case of capital punishment. By Sam Roberts Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli ...

At midnight on May 31st 1962, Shalom Nagar looked his prisoner in the eye. They stood perhaps a metre apart, in a room on the second floor of Ramla prison in central Israel. Adolf Eichmann was tied at ...

Israel's national archives announced Monday they were granting public access online to hundreds of thousands of documents from the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers ...

Israel's intelligence agency Mossad kidnapped a man in his 50s in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on May 11, 1960.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings A wooden chair inside a bullet-proof booth where Adolph Eichmann sat in ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s state archive says Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann was allowed to see his wife shortly before his 1962 execution. The archive produced records on Monday of Vera Eichmann’s ...

Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli prison guard when he was chosen to hang Adolf Eichmann -- the fugitive Nazi war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide, in the ...