Shalom Nagar, the man who hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel in 1962, has died aged 80.
Nagar was a prison guard at the prison where Eichmann was held, and was chosen at random for the role of the executioner. The only man ever to be executed in Israel, Eichmann was hanged on the night of May 31-June 1, 1962, and then cremated.
The Israeli jailer hanged the war criminal after he was convicted of his role in orchestrating the Holocaust, in which an estimated six million Jews were murdered.
Eichmann, one of the leading architects of the “Final Solution” aimed at exterminating Europe’s Jews, was kidnapped by Israeli agents from Argentina in 1960 and convicted a year later after a landmark public trial.
Nagar was born in Yemen in the late 1930s and moved to Israel when he was orphaned in 1948. His exact age is unclear.
After serving in the army, he joined the Israeli prison service and was selected as Eichmann’s personal guard at Ramle Prison. His duties included testing the prisoners’ food in case it was poisoned.
He said he was chosen at random to carry out the execution, and Eichmann was hanged on May 30, 1962.
Who was Shalom Nagar
Nagar’s identity remained secret for another 30 years, fearing reprisals, but was revealed by Israeli journalists in 1992.
Over the next few years he gave a series of interviews, sometimes providing graphic details about the hanging and its aftermath.
He explained that after the deed was done, he was told to load the body into an oven for cremation, but his hands were shaking and he could not walk without help.
For some time afterwards she suffered from PTSD and nightmares. He later became religious and moved to the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, media reports said.
In 2010, a documentary titled “The Executioner” was filmed about him.
The mastermind of the Final Solution
Eichmann played a key role in the Wannsee Conference of 1942, which planned the extermination of European Jewry by the Nazis, and was considered the mastermind of the Final Solution.
He lived incognito in Germany after the end of World War II and escaped to Argentina in 1950.
Israeli intelligence tracked him down in 1960, kidnapped him, and brought him to Israel to stand trial on charges including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the Jewish people.
He did not deny the charges or the Holocaust, but said he was following orders.
After a trial that was taped and televised, he was convicted of most charges and sentenced to death.
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