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Details emerge of notorious Nazi’s final days

January 11, 2017 14:58
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An investigation described as “highly credible” has been published regarding the fate of one of the most notorious Nazi criminals to survive the war.

Alois Brunner was an SS officer who served as an assistant to Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Holocaust.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre reported in 2014 that Brunner had died in 2010. However, the French magazine, XXI¸ which interviewed three former members of the Syrian Secret Service, published an article on Wednesday stating that Brunner had died in 2001.

Described by Eichmann as his “right hand man”, Brunner went on to command the Drancy internment camp in France, from which tens of thousands of Jews were sent to their deaths in the East.