How Mossad Caught ‘The Butcher of Riga’
50 years ago today, on March 7 1965, headlines announced that the body of Herberts Cukurs – the “Butcher of Riga” who was involved in the murder of 30,000 Latvian Jews in the Holocaust and escaped trial by fleeing to Brazil – had been found inside a crate in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.