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Klarsfeld to Syria to get Eichmann aide
The Jerusalem Post / June 24, 1982 By ERNIE MEYER Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld flew to Damascus from Paris yesterday to ask the Syrian authorities to arrest and extradite SS Hauptsturm-fuehrer Alois Brunner. Brunner, 70, was the right-hand man of Adolf Eichman in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Austria, Greece, France and Czechoslovakia. Klarsfeld demands that Brunner be extradited to Israel, ,either of the Germanys, France, or Greece. In most of these countries there are ' still valid papers for his arrest. Brunner was condemned to death in absentia by a Paris tribunal in May, 1954. Serge Klarsfeld contends that it is not by accident that Alois Brunner chose to live in Syria, Israel's number one enemy, and he wonders what role the former SS officer may have played in actions against Israel and Jews from his refuge in Damascus. By his journey, which he undertook without a visa, Klarsfeld wishes to underline his solidarity with the defence and future of Israel. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have been looking for Brunner for many years, and have now discovered him living under an assumed name in Damascus. He disappeared from sight after Germany's defeat in 1945. |
