Shlomo Nagar, who carried out the hanging of Adolf Eichmann after Israel sentenced the Nazi commander to death over his role in the Holocaust, has died at age 88.
Nagar was serving in the Israel Prisons Service when Israel arrested Eichmann in Argentina and brought him back to stand trial for helping orchestrate the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II, receiving the assignment to guard the SS officer.
Eichmann was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to death, becoming the only person to be executed following Israel’s founding.
Recounting the execution years later, Nagar gave a chilling description of hanging Eichmann before taking down his body.
“All the air stayed in his stomach. When I lifted him up, all the air inside come out and a horrible, unbearable sound came out of his mouth. I felt the angel of death came to take me as well,” Nagar recalled, according to the Haaretz daily.
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