--- title: A Notorious Nazi War Criminal Reportedly Died In Syria Four Years Ago description: Alois Brunner, an SS captain who sent over 128,000 Jews to concentration camps, was advising the Assad regime on torture canonical: https://time.com/3613248/alois-brunner-nazi-officer-syria-death/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-02T06:19:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:29:46.694Z article:section: History og:title: Nazi War Criminal Died In Syria og:description: A leading Nazi-hunter said he passed away in 2010 aged 98. og:url: https://time.com/3613248/alois-brunner-nazi-officer-syria-death/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37215ed0f21bb229/69876bc5e53abad4ff4d6392/114145621.jpg?branch=production&width=395&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 395 og:image:height: 222 og:image:alt: Alois Brunner, Lieutenant Of Eichmann, Sentenced To Death In Absentia On May 3, 1954 In Paris- og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nazi War Criminal Died In Syria twitter:description: A leading Nazi-hunter said he passed away in 2010 aged 98. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37215ed0f21bb229/69876bc5e53abad4ff4d6392/114145621.jpg?branch=production&width=395&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Notorious Nazi War Criminal Died in Syria Four Years Ago > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Dec 2, 2014 6:19 AM UTC  Alois Brunner, Lieutenant Of Eichmann, Sentenced To Death In Absentia On May 3, 1954 In Paris Alois Brunner, Lieutenant Of Eichmann, Sentenced To Death In Absentia On May 3, 1954 In Paris Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Dec 2, 2014 6:19 AM UTC A Nazi officer who was responsible for the deaths of over 128,000 Jews probably [died](http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/541687/Nazi-who-worked-in-concentration-camps-found-new-job-as-torturer-for-Syria-s-regime) in Syria four years ago, a leading Nazi hunter has revealed. Former SS Captain Alois Brunner had been advising the Assad regime on torture techniques and was 98 when he died, the _Sunday Express_ reported. Brunner, long one of the world’s most-wanted war criminals and a chief lieutenant of holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, reportedly fled to Syria in the 1950s and subsequently survived two assassination attempts by Israeli spy agency Mossad. Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Israel branch of a human rights foundation called The Simon Weisenthal Centre and a leading Nazi hunter, first broke the news of Brunner’s death and said the confirmation came from a former German secret agent who served in the Middle East. The Centre has taken Brunner’s name off its list of wanted Nazis, but Zuroff said they have been unable to confirm his demise forensically due to the Syrian civil war. “Given his age it would not be surprising and the information came from someone who we consider reliable,” Zuroff said. Brunner sent thousands of Jews to concentration camps before fleeing the country after the end of World War II, working as a weapons dealer in Egypt and then moving to Syria under the pseudonym Dr. Georg Fischer. “He was a notorious anti-Semite, sadist, fanatic Nazi,” Zuroff told the New York _Times_. “The only known interview we have with him was to a German newsmagazine in 1985, in which he was asked if he had any regrets, and he said, ‘My only regret is I didn’t murder more Jews.’” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3613248/alois-brunner-nazi-officer-syria-death/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3613248/alois-brunner-nazi-officer-syria-death/"},"headline":"A Notorious Nazi War Criminal Died in Syria Four Years Ago","datePublished":"2014-12-02T06:19:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:29:46.694Z","description":"Alois Brunner, an SS captain who was a key proponent of the holocaust, was apparently advising the Assad regime on torture","url":"https://time.com/3613248/alois-brunner-nazi-officer-syria-death/","keywords":["Death","Syria","jews","Nazi","adolf hitler","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37215ed0f21bb229/69876bc5e53abad4ff4d6392/114145621.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37215ed0f21bb229/69876bc5e53abad4ff4d6392/114145621.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Alois Brunner, Lieutenant Of Eichmann, Sentenced To Death In Absentia On May 3, 1954 In Paris-","caption":"Alois Brunner, Lieutenant Of Eichmann, Sentenced To Death In Absentia On May 3, 1954 In Paris-","creditText":"Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3613248/alois-brunner-nazi-officer-syria-death/","name":"A Notorious Nazi War Criminal Died in Syria Four Years Ago"}}]}] ```