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Bach fled Nazi Germany as a child and became a lawyer in Israel. His biggest case: the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961, whom he helped accuse. Bach has now died at the age of 94.
The deputy chief prosecutor of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann, Gabriel Bach, is dead. He died on Friday at the age of 94, according to the dpa news agency, citing Israeli media.
Bach was part of a team of lawyers who prosecuted Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961. Eichmann was one of the main people responsible for the deportation of European Jews to the death camps. He fled to Argentina, where he was tracked down by Israeli agents in 1960 and kidnapped to Israel. After his conviction he was executed. The process caused a sensation around the world.
Deputy Prosecutor Bach grew up in Berlin and fled Germany to Palestine with his family in 1938. He studied law in London before working for the public prosecutor in Israel from 1953. From 1982 to 1997 he was a judge on the Israeli Supreme Court. Bach, who received the Federal Cross of Merit, advocated rapprochement between Israel and Germany.