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Execution

Israel · Government / Government of Israel. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1962

David Ben-Gurion1962

Jerusalem · Government / Government of Israel

Eichmann is found guilty of crimes committed in the Holocaust & executed in Israel. Adolph Eichmann, Gestapo official and Nazi war criminal, is hanged near Tel Aviv, Israel, for his role in the Nazi murder of over one million Jews

Names involved

David Ben-Gurion

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