Alois Brunner, one of Eichmann’s top aides, lived openly in Syria for years and was a close adviser to the Assads. By Jay Solomon. 12.19.24 — . On my first trip to Damascus in 2009, during a morning coffee with a local diplomat, I was told one of the darker secrets of Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. Not far from the café, in the upscale neighborhood of Kafr Sousa, lived the most wanted Nazi war criminal in the world at the time—a former top aide to Adolf Eichmann. His name was Alois Brunner. Today, as Syrians and human rights organizations sift through...