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False identification papers used by Adolf Eichmann while he was living in Argentina under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka killing center.
SS Lieutenant Klaus Barbie in Nazi uniform. Barbie, responsible for atrocities against Jews and resistance activists in France, was known as the "Butcher of Lyon." Germany, date uncertain.
Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust survivor and an investigator of Nazi war criminals, tours a synagogue for refugee Jews in central Europe. Place uncertain, 1946.
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