EICHMANN'S PASSPORT FOUND: RED CROSS HELPED HIM ESCAPE

Nazi Eichmann's passport found in Argentina (ABC Australia)
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. The passport, still in good condition, was issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.

Eichmann was 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.

After Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allies, Eichmann fled to Argentina where he was tracked down and kidnapped by the Israeli secret service. 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. - AFP