Tattoo Fact For The Day: The act of tattooing did indeed help in the capture of Karl Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962). Mossad, the Israeli Secret Intelligence service sent a team to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1960, in the hope of capturing Josef Mengele, who they knew lived and worked in the South American City. But, in a routine surveillance operation, one of the group learned of the whereabouts of Eichmann, who in terms of war crimes was a much bigger fish then Mengele, and it was decided by the team that they would go after Eichmann instead. And it was discovered that, in 1952, after living in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, a certain Ricardo Kelmet arrived in Argentina along with his wife and children, and worked as an administrative clerk at the Mercedes-Benz factory in San Jarosto. And on the 11th of May, 1960, it all came to an end for Eichmann as he got off a bus at the end of his street, after a day at work. He was captured by two Mossad agents. Indeed Mossad knew that they had their man when the medical records and x-rays they had with them revealed old injuries that told them that Kelmet was indeed Eichmann. It was also discovered that the blood group tattoo under his armpit had not been removed through surgery, but had been cut and ripped out by Eichmann himself. So the man responsible for organizing the mass transportation of millions of Jews to their deaths and referred to as the Chief Executioner Of The Third Reich was smuggled out of Argentina and taken to Israel, put on trial and indicted on fifteen charges, and convicted on all counts. And on June 1, 1962, a few minutes after midnight, one of mankind’s most evil criminals was hanged at the Ramla Prison, Tel Aviv.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:08:02 +0000
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