Shalom Nagar, a reluctant Israeli prison guard chosen as the executioner of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, died at age 86 or 88, haunted by his past.
For decades, Nagar concealed his identity as Eichmann's hangman, fearing retribution from neo-Nazis, an experience that left a lasting impact on him.
During the execution, Eichmann asked for white wine and cigarettes and refused a blindfold. Nagar had to release the trapdoor, a moment that forever haunted him.
The grisly aftermath of the execution—removing the noose and conveying Eichmann’s corpse to the cremation oven—was, in Nagar's words, worse than the execution itself.
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