West Germany Knew Adolf Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before His Capture

Eichmann was captured May 11, 1960.

Via RealClearHistory, at Der Spiegel, "Document Find Hailed as Sensation: Germany Knew Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before His Capture":

West Germany could have hunted down Adolf Eichmann, the chief organizer of the Holocaust, as early as 1952, eight years before Israeli agents caught him in Buenos Aires, according to a newly released document that suggests postwar Germany was unready and unwilling to put him on trial.

The revelation has been described as a sensation, and it sheds light on West Germany's reluctance to confront its past in the decades following the Holocaust...

And see Doron Geller, at the Jewish Virtual Library, "Israel Military Intelligence: The Capture of Nazi Criminal Adolf Eichmann."