Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner 'died in Syria basement in 2001'
Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
11 JAN 2017 AT 11:56 ET
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, responsible for the deaths of an estimated 130,000 Jews, died in 2001 at the age of 89, locked up in a squalid Damascus basement, a French magazine reported Wednesday.
Its investigation described as highly credible by veteran Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld aimed at discovering the fate of one of the most notorious figures of the Holocaust.
Three ex-members of the Syrian secret service interviewed by the magazine XXI said Adolf Eichmanns former assistant spent his last years in miserable conditions underneath an apartment block in the Syrian capital.
The Austrian-born SS commander was in charge of the Drancy camp north of Paris from which Jews in occupied France were sent to the gas chambers. He remained to the end an unrepentant Nazi and anti-Semite, the sources told XXI.
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