Background
Hermann Arndt (later Zvi Aharoni) was born in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Hermann Arndt (later Zvi Aharoni) was born in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
He emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1938 as a boy. After serving in the British Army, he joined the Israeli secret service and spent 20 years as a Nazi-hunter. He was the Mossad agent who identified "Ricardo Klement" as Eichmann.
Aharoni flew to Buenos Aires and tracked down the family’s house in a remote neighborhood on the outskirts of town.
On March 19, 1960, he spotted Eichmann. In his account of the capture, Aharoni wrote: "I saw him about two o"clock in the afternoon..a man of medium size and build, about fifty years old, with a high forehead and partially bald, collecting the washing." His assistant photographed Eichmann using a camera hidden in a bag.