Adolf Eichmann the most wanted Nazi in the world was living in Buenos Aires as a factory worker. The Mossad took twenty seconds to capture him. The architect of the deportation of more than one million Jews during World War II to the Holocaust extermination camps was operating under the name Ricardo Klement. He was identified by a one-eyed Auschwitz survivor. Fritz Bauer the German prosecutor who located him sent the information directly to the Mossad bypassing official channels because inside the German judicial system there were too many people who preferred it never arrived anywhere. The ODESSA network and the Nazi escape ratlines poids lourd running through Italy and Spain had allowed thousands of war criminals to escape the Nuremberg Trials to Argentina Brazil Bolivia and Chile.
Josef Mengele the Auschwitz-Birkenau doctor who selected with a gesture who died on the ramp lived thirty-four years free in Brazil protected by German-origin networks. Klaus Barbie head of the Gestapo in Lyon who deported forty-four children from the Izieu house was protected for four years harrison barnes by American military intelligence before settling in Bolivia as a security forces adviser. Walter Rauff SS engineer who developed the gas vans that killed more than one hundred fifty thousand people advised Pinochet's secret police and died without trial in Santiago in nineteen eighty-four.
The Nazi hunt in South America that the Mossad's secret operations conducted for decades did not end with Eichmann. Without the Holocaust survivors who sent letters with names and photographs from Buenos Aires São Paulo and Santiago no secret operation would have found anyone.
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