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In 1945, at the end of world war ii, adolf eichmann, the head of operations for the nazis final solution, walked into the. The nazi hunters, by neal bascomb, published in 20, is the story of the manhunt and capture of adolf eichmann, the worlds most notorious nazi in argentina, 1961. The nazi hunters by andrew nagorski, paperback barnes. His memoirs all contradict each other and are at odds with the rest of the evidence. Nazi hunter efraim zuroff has spent four decades doggedly chasing holocaust criminals, but when his pursuit led him to lithuania, the fight got personal.
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