(23 May 2014) The Israeli official who interrogated top Nazi Adolf Eichmann was buried on Friday in Berlin's Wannsee neighbourhood, not far from the house where the man who helped organise the Holocaust outlined his genocidal plans in 1942. The choice of Avner Less' burial place was coincidence, but his son Alon said it was a "perfect contradiction" and a "chance to try and understand each other". The burial brought Less together with his wife, Vera, whose remains were moved from a Hamburg cemetery. It fulfilled a pledge that Alon made to his son as he was dying in 1987 - to bury them together in their native Germany. "I am very proud to be able to fulfil my promise, after so many years it appears to be a miracle", Alon Less said on Friday. Avner and Vera Less married in 1936 in Paris, where they met after both fleeing Nazi Germany. A year before the outbreak of World War II, they immigrated to what was then the British mandate of Palestine, where Avner eventually found work as a police officer. In 1960, after Eichmann was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina, Less was chosen to be part of the unit preparing the evidence for Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. Eichmann, a top deputy of Adolf Hitler, is known as the "architect of the Holocaust" for his role in coordinating the Nazi genocide policy. But at the time, Eichmann tried to present himself as a small cog in the Nazi machine, and frequently insisted he was simply following orders. But Less was able to get him to talk, for 275 hours, and was able to catch him lying by confronting him with meticulously collected evidence. Eichmann was found guilty in 1961 on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and crimes against the Jewish people. He was hanged the following year at an Israeli prison, the only time Israel has carried out a death sentence. Vera Less died in Switzerland in 1980 and was allowed to be buried in a Jewish cemetery in her native Hamburg even though she had been cremated, not following Jewish customs. When Avner Less died in 1987, he was also cremated and the Hamburg cemetery would not make an exception for him as well, Alon Less said. Instead his urn was interred in Switzerland, where Alon currently lives. After the lease on the plot came up 25 years later, Less again attempted to have his father's remains buried in Hamburg but was again rejected. Instead he came up with the solution to have both his parents' remains buried in his father's native Berlin, in Wansee's municipal cemetery. Less said his parents had been long convinced that Germany had changed dramatically since the Nazi era, and wanted to be buried back in the country they considered home. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c0886b8cdbe6d65edbec828822abd0a2