Operation Finale was conducted by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to capture and secretly transport Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to Israel in May 1960.
International Committee of the Red Cross identity document with a portrait of A. Eichmann, issued under the name Ricardo Klement, which enabled him to escape to Argentina
Peter Malkin in 1960 before departing for Argentina
Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion with participants in the Eichmann capture operation. From left to right: Rafi Eitan, Peter Malkin, Avraham Shalom. Photo taken approximately in the first half of the 1970s
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel, a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in th
Adolf Eichmann's capture
…Operation Finale (Hebrew: מבצע פינאלה) was conducted by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to capture and secretly transport Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to Israel in May 1960. There are several accounts about how Israeli intelligence located Eichmann in Argentina. However, a pivotal role…
Adolf Eichmann's Lebenslauf (résumé) attached to his application for promotion from SS-Hauptscharführer to SS-Untersturmführer in 1937
Memorial to Holocaust victims at a bus stop near the site of Eichmann's office, Referat IV B4 (Office of Jewish Affairs) at Kurfürstenstraße 115/116, Berlin, now occupied by a hotel
Hungarian woman and children arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May or June 1944 (photo from the Auschwitz Album).