The capture of Nazi commander and war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 and his ensuing trial and execution in Israel on June 1, 1962, caused an uproar at the time, opening the doors to renewed awareness of the Holocaust and interest in how he had been able to escape detection for so long.
Eichmann, a major responsible for the Holocaust as one of the architects of the Nazis’ “final solution,” spent the better part of the 10 years he lived in Argentina (1950-1960) in different locations within Buenos Aires province while working for a Mercedes-Benz assembly plant.
Less is known, however, of his first years in the country, when he lived in remote areas in Tucumán and Catamarca in Northern Argentina. How did he get there? What did he do? Did anyone recognize him or know about this past?
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Escape and relocation
