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TIL that Lothar Hermann, a German Holocaust survivor who discovered Adolf Eichmann's whereabouts in Argentina, was arrested in 1961 after misinformation led Argentinian authorities to believe that he was Josef Mengele using a pseudonym. It took 14 days and a fingerprint comparison to exonerate him.

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