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Death of Nazi War Criminal Alois Brunner in Syria Confirmed
(Atlantic) Adam Chandler - The death of Alois Brunner, the world's most wanted Nazi, was all but confirmed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Brunner, who was the top aide to "Final Solution" architect Adolf Eichmann, is thought to have died four years ago in Syria, where he lived for decades, at age 98. Deborah Lipstadt, a professor and Holocaust historian at Emory University, said Brunner "didn't just go fishing for the next 30 years. He participated and apparently advised [former Syrian dictator Hafez] Assad." Efraim Zuroff, the noted Nazi hunter, said that while living in Syria under the pseudonym Dr. Georg Fischer, Brunner had taught the elder Assad how to torture. Israel's Mossad targeted Brunner twice with letter bombs, causing him to lose an eye and three fingers.