Ynetnews - News - Nazi war criminal may be in Brazil

Brazilian police suspect Alois Brunner, a deputy of Eichmann who spent many years in hiding in Syria, is living in Brazil; suspect denies he is wanted Nazi war criminal. Brazilian police are checking suspicions that the world's living most wanted Nazi war criminal, Alois Brunner, is hiding in the country, according to the Haaretz newspaper. Brunner, 95, was deputy to Adolf Eichmann, and aided the carrying out of the "Final Solution." He is responsible for sending at least 130,000 Jews, many of them from France, to Nazi death camps. The man suspected of being Brunner by Brazilian police completely denies that he is a Nazi war criminal, and claims he was born in 1939, saying that he was a child during the Second World War. siehe auch: Brazil probing if Eichmann aide is hiding in country