It is the first official, definitive tale of how the agency tried to track down and assassinate Nazi war criminals. According to the official Mossad history, the first hit team took its position around Rauff’s house for Operation Stainless Steel. An especially poignant part of the story is that the author of this Mossad history, Yossi Chen, is himself a Holocaust survivor who came to British-ruled Palestine on the famous ship Exodus. After the Eichmann trial, with sensational testimony from Holocaust victims, people assumed that the Mossad would do everything in its power to trace, surveil and then capture or kill Nazis. The secret agency dropped the whole matter after one final, fruitless tracking mission in 1991, and the hunt for Nazi war criminals was over, according to the report.

Source: Washington Post September 22, 2017 15:05 UTC