KLAMMER BILDER TRIAL
Writer Haim Gouri said: “The trial gave the survivors of the genocide, for the first time, the possibility of being heard.” On April 11, 1961, the captured Eichmann, facing 15 charges, appeared for the first time in public in a glass booth in a Jerusalem court, which would question some 111 witnesses. Holocaust ‘architect’ Adolf Eichmann in a Jerusalem courtroom several days before receiving a death sentence. It nonetheless took the Mossad more than two years to locate him, living in a home without running water and electricity, in the neighborhood of San Fernando, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.ĭuring a March 1960 mission, Mossad agents, using Klammer’s photo, formally established that Ricardo Klement was the former lieutenant-colonel Eichmann. That photo, the report said, led the Israeli spy agency to carry out the mission that would eventually end in Eichmann’s capture. Quoting associates of Klammer, the Süddeutsche Zeitung report said that, via a close friend, he had provided Bauer with a photo of himself standing next to Eichmann during the time they had worked together. A manhunt was launched in 1945, led by prominent figures in the Jewish community, including famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who himself had escaped a concentration camp.Ī breakthrough came in 1957 when the prosecutor of the German state of Hesse, Fritz Bauer, tipped off the Israeli secret service that Eichmann was in hiding in Argentina, under the false name of Ricardo Klement.
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