Israel tried to kill him a second time, but the bomb took only some fingers. France sentenced Brunner to death in absentia. “Among Third Reich criminals still alive, Alois Brunner is undoubtedly the worst,” the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal wrote, in 1988. The Israeli spy was later caught, tortured, and executed Brunner lived openly in Damascus for the next several decades, in the third-floor apartment of 7 Rue Haddad.
When Brunner opened the package, it exploded, killing two postal workers and blinding him in the left eye.
But among those who were aware of his identity was a Mossad operative who had infiltrated the Syrian élite. Hauptsturmführer Alois Brunner, “the erstwhile assistant of Adolf Eichmann in the annihilation of Jews,” as a classified U.S. Few people knew that Fischer, an ill-tempered Austrian weapons merchant, was actually the S.S. On a September day in 1961, a thin man with a small mustache walked into a post office in Damascus to pick up a parcel addressed to Georg Fischer.
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