Shalom Nagar, who has died aged 88, was one of the Israeli prison officers assigned to guard the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann ...

Shalom Nagar, the Israeli prison guard who by chance, and against his wishes, was selected to hang convicted Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, died Tuesday aged 88.

T he 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Prison Services officer, Shalom Nagar, who hanged Nazi Adolf Eichmann, has died at the age of 91. Nagar served as Eichmann's prison guard and was later chosen to execute him.

Shalom Nagar, ‘The Hangman’ Who Executed Adolf Eichmann, Dies at 89 A former member of the Israel Defense Forces, he eventually saw it as a virtuous act. But he was haunted by it for many years.

The Israeli prison guard who executed the Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann has died aged 86.. Shalom Nagar performed the hanging of the war criminal after he was convicted over his role in ...

Shalom Nagar, quien ejecutó al criminal nazi Adolf Eichmann, murió a los 86 años. Su papel clave en la historia marcó el cierre de un capítulo en la justicia tras el Holocausto.

Shalom Nagar, the Israeli prison guard who carried out the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, has passed away at the age of 86.

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 ...