The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had unknowingly provided Adolf Eichmann with travel documents that helped him escape to Argentina.
The International Committee of the Red Cross had unknowingly provided Adolf Eichmann with travel documents that helped him escape to Argentina. The travel document that allowed Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann to flee Europe to Argentina was issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross on June 1, 1950, the international body said, adding that his services had been deceived.
The document, which was recently discovered in the archives of the Buenos Aires court and was used by Eichmann under the name Ricardo Clement, belongs to the type of documents that ES issued since 1945 to refugees, expatriates and stateless persons, who did not have IDs. Ο Ε.Σ. has kept in its files a copy of Eichmann's application for a travel document.
The two-page document issued in Genoa contains a photograph of Adolf Eichmann and his fingerprints, but the name used is Ricardo Clement, born in Bolzano, Italy. Only the description of its features is accurate, "brown hair, eyes open, nose normal".
Eichmann was the orchestrator of the "final solution", who sent six million Jews to his death and had lived in Argentina for 10 years, before being located and arrested by the Israeli Mossad. The perpetrator of the Holocaust was tried and eventually executed in Israel in 1962.
