(Israel Hayom) Neta Bar - Sixty years after Nazi arch-murderer Adolf Eichmann was captured by Mossad agents and brought to Israel for trial, the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung has revealed the identity of the person who turned Eichmann in. German geologist Gerhard Klammer, who opposed the Nazi regime, worked with Eichmann at a building firm in Argentina after the war. Eichmann revealed his true identity to Klammer in the 1950s, and Klammer made multiple attempts to alert authorities in both Germany and Argentina. Associates of Klammer said Eichmann's true identity was an "open secret" in the German community in Argentina. Back in Germany in the 1960s, Klammer spoke with Fritz Bauer, the prosecutor responsible for the Eichmann case, who reached out to the Mossad.
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