Mossad tried twice to kill him

Alois Brunner, most-wanted Nazi, died ‘unrepentant’ in Syria

Nazi hunter says Eichmann’s ‘best man’ sent 128,000 Jews to camps, then advised Assad regime on SS torture methods
The world’s most wanted Nazi criminal, Adolf Eichmann’s second-in-command, died four years ago in Syria at the age of 98, the Simon Weisenthal Center said Sunday, citing the testimony of a former German secret service agent deployed in the Middle East.

SS captain Alois Brunner, described by Eichmann as his “best man,” was responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews to the death camps. After the war in the 1950s, Brunner fled to Syria where he reportedly served as a government adviser to president Hafez Assad and is thought to have instructed the regime on torture tactics. He survived two Mossad assassination attempts, and went to his grave utterly “unrepentant,” according to Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff.

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