Paris - A Paris court yesterday sentenced in absentia Alois Brunner - Adolf Eichmann's right-hand man and the world's highest-ranking Nazi fugitive believed still alive - to life imprisonment for sending hundreds of Jewish children to their deaths at Auschwitz.
In all, Brunner, who fled to Syria after the war and who is now 88 if he is still alive, is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. Nearly 24,000 of them were deported from the notorious Drancy transit camp outside Paris, where Brunner was commandant from June 1943 to August 1944.