He was the hangman chosen to carry out the sentence on the fugitive Nazi war criminal, in Israel’s only case of capital punishment. By Sam Roberts Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli ...

The identity of the hangman who executed Adolf Eichmann in 1962 was kept secret for three decades. By the time Shalom Nagar’s name was unearthed by Israeli journalists, Nagar had retired from Israel’s ...

At midnight on May 31st 1962, Shalom Nagar looked his prisoner in the eye. They stood perhaps a metre apart, in a room on the second floor of Ramla prison in central Israel. Adolf Eichmann was tied at ...

"This is an unusual defendant..." Madman Films in Australia has posted a new trailer for the documentary film titled The Eichmann Trial, a look back at this famous trial in 1961. This doc already ...

Israel's intelligence agency Mossad kidnapped a man in his 50s in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on May 11, 1960.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s state archive says Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann was allowed to see his wife shortly before his 1962 execution. The archive produced records on Monday of Vera Eichmann’s ...

Israel's national archives announced Monday they were granting public access online to hundreds of thousands of documents from the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers ...

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Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli prison guard when he was chosen to hang Adolf Eichmann -- the fugitive Nazi war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide, in the ...