Informer dies

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33580, 8 July 1974, Page 13

Informer dies

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) BUENOS AIRES, July 7. A blind German immigrant, who told Israeli secret agents where to find the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, has died of a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home. Mr Lothar Hermann was awarded about SNZ69OO by the Israeli Government in November, 1972, for his information. In 1959, Mr Tuvia Friedman, who directed the Haifa documentation centre on Nazi crimes, said that Israel was offering a reward of this amount for Eichmann. Within days he received a

letter from Mr Hermann, a blind lawyer in Buenos Aires, saying that Eichmann was living in the neighbourhood, and that his daughter was being courted by Eichmann’s 17-year-old son. Israeli agents seized Eichmann near his home, took him aboard an Israeli aircraft as a drunken crewman, and returned him to Israel. Eichmann was executed in 1962 for his part in the massacre of Jews during World War 11. Mr Hermann was born in Quinbach, Germany, in 1901. He spent eight months in the Dachau concentration camp, where he began to lose his sight because of graucoma. He migrated to Argentina in 1945. His daughter now lives in New York.