Brunner was convicted a second time by a French court in absentia in 2001 for sending an estimated 345 Jewish children from the Drancy internment camp to their deaths in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

Few people today recognize the name of Alois Brunner. As the right hand of Nazi official Adolph Eichman, he was one of the most notorious figures of the Holocaust, responsible for the deaths of an ...

But by the early 1950s, Brunner is thought to have fled to Egypt and then to Syria, where he was known as Georg Fischer and worked as an arms dealer in Damascus.