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Most wanted Nazis - The Fuhrer's last fugitives     mirror.co.uk :: 2009-05-17
As right-hand man to Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, Alois Brunner was a key figure in the implementation of the Final Solution. Brunner, a doctor, killed hundreds of people in Nazi camps by injecting acid into their hearts. He joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and soon became head of the Jewish Affairs office in Vienna. In 1954 Brunner escaped to Syria with the name Georg Fischer, helping the Syrians in set up their secret police. He was injured by letter bombs in 1961 and 1980. --- Soeren Kam, a member of a Danish branch of the SS, known as the Schalburg Corps, is accused of shooting anti-Nazi newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Copenhagen in 1943.    

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Germany targets Nazi War Criminals - But how to deal with them is quandary     spiegel.de :: 2009-04-16
German investigators have set their sights on several Nazi war criminals, raising the question of how the law should deal with the aged (minor) accessories of the Holocaust. Names rarely come out in archives, and many of the murderers managed to vanish in the postwar chaos. And many at the end of the chain of command can argue - more credibly than members of the SS - that they had no other choice, at least until someone proves them wrong. For example. some in the Wehrmacht's POW camps signed up to work for the SS only because they would otherwise have faced death by starvation.    

The hunt for the last Nazis - Efforts to capture the Nazis faltered as the Cold War set in     bbc.co.uk :: 2009-03-23
Contrary to popular belief, most former Nazis did not go into hiding after WW2. Most did not even change their name: they simply took off their Nazi/SS uniforms, went home, and got a job. And for a crucial period in the 1950s, little was done to hunt them down. In 1953 the Nazi trials stopped, because of the Cold War: The West needed a strong West Germany and did not want to hunt for Nazis, many of which were part of the society and the Federal Republic government. But in the 1970s there was a shift: the second generation began to question what their parents did in the war. US files show CIA often hunted Nazi war criminals to use them, not to bring them to justice.     [End of WWII - Aftermath]

Accused Australian war criminal Charles Zentai passes lie detector test     afp :: 2009-03-10
Alleged war criminal Charles Zentai - accused of killing Peter Balazs, a young Jewish man, in 1944 in Budapest during WW2 - said he had taken a lie detector test to prove his innocence. Talking ahead of a legal challenge to his extradition to Hungary, Zentai said he had taken a polygraph test to satisfy himself, his family and the media. Gavin Willson, who carried out the test, said he was "more than happy" with the results. "There was nothing ... to indicate that he was being deceptive to me at any time prior to conducting the test and during the test itself."     [Nazi hunters & nazis at large]

The most wanted Nazis: Alois Brunner, John Demjanjuk, Soren Kam, Heinrich Boere...     telegraph.co.uk :: 2009-02-06
Ten Nazi war criminals at large and on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's most wanted list. --- Top of the list and thought to be living in Syria is Alois Brunner, a key operative of Adolf Eichmann. John (Ivan) Demjanjuk is awaiting deportation from the USA. Dr Sandor Kepiro is under investigation in Hungary for the mass murder. Danish Waffen-SS officer Soren Kam, living Bavaria, is wanted for murder. Waffen-SS death squad member Heinrich Boere has been indicted in Germany for the murder of 3 Dutch civilians. Rest are: Milivoj Aser, Charles (Karoly) Zentai, Mikhail Gorshkow, Algimantas Dailide, Harry Mannil.    

SS hitman Heinrich Boere ruled unfit to stand trial     haaretz.com :: 2009-01-08
A German court ruled that a former Nazi hit squad member is unfit to stand trial for the World War II revenge killings of 3 Dutch civilians. Defense attorney Gordon Christiansen told that Heinrich Boere have a serious heart condition, and he have "almost died" twice since being charged. The Simon Wiesenthal Center's leading Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff questioned whether Boere was really ill and argued that if Boere had been chased more vigorously earlier, his health would not have even been a factor: "Boere has been living in Germany for decades and he should have been put on trial long ago."    

German authorities investigating SS suspect in World War II massacre     expatica.com :: 2008-12-18
German authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia have raided the residence of a member of the SS suspected of participating in a massacre in Austria in March 1945. They are now assessing seized documents as part of their probe into his involvement in the massacre in the village of Deutsch Schuetzen. The man, identified only as Adolf S., is suspected of being one of three SS men who killed 60 Hungarian-Jewish slave laborers. Dortmund prosecutor Ulrich Maass has found several witnesses to the massacre who were still alive, including members of the Hitler Youth.    

Nazi hunters fault Australia, Hungary for failing to investigate Nazi war criminals     eurojewcong.org :: 2008-12-12
Australia, Hungary, Lithuania, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine are failing to investigate and prosecute Nazi war criminals mostly due to a lack of political will, states the annual (April 2007 - March 2008) report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The report said Australia admitted at least several hundred Nazi war criminals and collaborators but has failed to take successful legal action against a single one. The report also criticised Norway, Sweden and Syria, saying they refuse in principle to investigate and prosecute suspected Nazi war criminals because of legal or ideological limitations.    

Combating Nazi crime oblivion: German Central Office turns 50     dw-world.de :: 2008-12-01
In 1958, most Germans thought that they had dealt with their Nazi past. West Germany was on its way to the "economic miracle" and wanted to stop thinking about the past. But in connection with a probe about the murder of Jews in Lithuania, the public's interest was rekindled. People saw that many culprits had gotten away. This led to the founding of the "central office" in Ludwigsburg on Dec. 1, 1958. During the first 12 months, the central office initiated 400 cases, and so far 7,367 cases have been investigated. "The chances for a trial diminish with every year... not only because the accused get older, but also the witnesses," explained Kurt Schrimm.    

Helmut Oberlander, a member of Einsatzkommando 10A, loses bid to keep Canadian citizenship     nationalpost.com :: 2008-10-28
Ottawa's decision to strip Canadian citizenship from Nazi collaborator Helmut Oberlander was maintained by the Federal Court. Justice Michael Phelan dismissed Oberlander's attempt to dismiss a 2007 Cabinet order cancelling his citizenship for lying about his Nazi past when he entered Canada. A member of Einsatzkommando 10A, a "mobile mass killing squad" in Ukraine, Oberlander entered Canada after the war. Federal authorities caught up to him in 1995. The government's first attempt to cancel his citizenship was set aside by the court in 2004, but in 2007 Ottawa stripped his citizenship again, along with that of another former Nazi collaborator Jacob Fast.    

Student tracks down a Waffen SS man, suspected of Nazi war crimes     telegraph.co.uk :: 2008-10-22
The member of the Waffen SS, whose name cannot be disclosed, is accused of taking part in the murder of 60 Jewish slave workers in 1945. The massacre happened in Deutsch Schuetzen in Austria and the victims were buried in a mass grave, which was discovered in 1995. The name of the man first occurred in a trial in 1946, where witnesses claimed he took part in the massacre, but he was not charged. Andreas Foster, 27, a student in Vienna, was researching the case for a project and got documents on the man from German archives. In later research two members of the Hitler Youth, who were convicted for their part in the massacre in 1946, confirmed they knew the man.    

Now more historian than Nazi hunter, Kurt Schrimm keeps pursuing justice     chicagotribune.com :: 2008-10-15
The last Nazi war criminals and witnesses to their inhumanities are dying of old age. But the German office charged with preparing prosecutions of Nazi crimes has seldom been busier. "25 years ago we thought our work would be coming to an end now," said Kurt Schrimm, of Germany's central office for the investigation of "National Socialist Crimes." With witnesses dying out, most of the tips are from documents. In the mid-1990s, Italian officials discovered a room full of Nazi war crime files - handed to the Italians for use in prosecutions but instead was locked away. Now the "Closet of Shame" is a major source of new prosecutions.    

Sandor Kepiro, one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, tracked down in in Budapest     thesun.co.uk :: 2008-09-26
Dr Sandor Kepiro, one of the most wanted Nazi war criminal, is accused of assisting the massacre of at least 2,000 persons during World War II. Currently living near a synagogue in Budapest, he says: "I sleep well at night." Kepiro, the former Hungarian gendarme who fled to Argentina after the war on the Nazi ratline, is accused of playing a notable part in the murder of thousands by the Nazis' Hungarian allies during the Great Raid in Novi Sad, Serbia, in 1942. Living a mile away from Kepiro is one of the survivors of the Great Raid, who has a fading picture of himself holding his dad's hand in Novi Sad shortly before the genocide.    

Journalist Gustavo Sanchez tracked Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon in 1983     guardianweekly.co.uk :: 2008-09-11
After World War II many leading Nazis fled to South America. One of them was the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, a man responsible for the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz and the torture of members of the French Resistance. Hiding in Bolivia, Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, changed his name to Klaus Altmann and made himself useful to drug lords and dictators. American intelligence officials helped Barbie, who was a kind of counter-intelligence official, to become established in Bolivia as part of their battle against communism. Bolivian journalist Gustavo Sanchez tells what happened when he tracked Barbie down in 1983.     [How & where nazis escaped after the war]

Dinko Sakic - The known living commander of a WW2 concentration camp     iht.com :: 2008-07-22
Dinko Sakic, the last known living commander of a World War II concentration camp, passed away while serving a 20-year sentence for war crimes. Sakic - a chief of Croatia's Jasenovac camp, the worst of 40 camps run by the then Nazi puppet state in Croatia - fled Croatia at the end of the war when pro-Nazi regime was put down. He lived peacefully in Argentina, until 1998 he was deported to Croatia for a trial. Sakic never felt remorse for his role, saying that all he did was for the good of Croatia. When he was given the guilty verdict, Sakic mockingly applauded.     [Nazi hunters & nazis at large]

German officer Josef Eduard Scheungraber faces World War II murder trial     ukpress :: 2008-07-21
A former German officer, living in Bavaria, is to face a murder trial over the killing of 14 civilians in Italy. Josef Eduard Scheungraber, who was posted in Italy as the commander of a mountain infantry battalion, is accused of ordering his troops to kill the civilians at Falzano di Cortona in June 1944. The killings were a revenge for the killing of 2 German soldiers and had its most bloody moment when the troops shut 11 people in a farmhouse. In September 2006, a military court in Italy found Scheungraber and another German soldier guilty of complicity in murdering civilians.    

Fourth most wanted Nazi too ill for trial, but fit enough to watch football     dailymail.co.uk :: 2008-06-17
Alleged Nazi war criminal Milivoj Asner - rated at number 4 on Interpol's most wanted list - has been watching his country Croatia plays football at the Euro 2008 football championships. He was seen relaxing with fellow football fans in Austria. Asner, now living under a name Georg Aschner, has avoided extradition because he's too ill to face charges of genocide. "He's enjoying a life many hundreds of victims were denied when they were sent off to be murdered. If this man is well enough to walk around town unaided and drink wine in bars, he's well enough to answer for his past," said Efraim Zuroff.    

Germans give SS doctor Hans-Joachim Sewering, accused of killing 900 kids, a medal     dailymail :: 2008-05-26
Former SS doctor Hans-Joachim Sewering accused of sending 900 sick children to their deaths under the Nazi euthanasia programme has been granted a German medical association's highest honour the Guenther-Budelmann medal - while Jewish groups pressure Germany to put him on trial for mass murder. Sewering was a doctor at a clinic near Munich before World War II. He signed orders, claim four nuns, sending 900 kids from the clinic to a "healing centre" - in reality a killing centre implementing a secret Nazi policy of killing the handicapped, who were declared "useless eaters" by the Nazis.    

A list of most wanted Nazis by the Simon Wiesenthal Center     jpost.com :: 2008-04-30
(1) Aribert Heim (whereabouts unknown): Murdered hundreds at Mauthausen camp as a camp doctor. (2) John Demjanjuk (US): Ukrainian immigrant alleged to have been guard at Nazi camps. He denies that. Extradited to Israel in 1986, where he was sentenced to death for allegedly being Treblinka camp guard "Ivan the Terrible." Verdict overturned in 1993 and he returned to US, where citizenship restored in 1998, then removed in 2002. (4) Milivoj Asner (Austria): Police chief in Croatia's wartime Nazi puppet regime. (5) Soeren Kam (Germany): Member of SS wanted by Denmark in assassination of journalist in 1943.    

Heinrich Boere, a member of a Waffen SS death squad, charged with killings     iht :: 2008-04-16
Heinrich Boere has been charged in Germany with 3 counts of murder for killings as a member of a Waffen SS death squad that executed Dutch civilians. He was part of a Waffen SS death squad made mostly of Dutch volunteers tasked with killing fellow countrymen in retaliation for attacks by the anti-Nazi resistance. The SS unit Silbertanne (Silver Pine) is suspected of 54 killings, and Boere has admitted to taking part in 3. He was convicted in the Netherlands in 1949 and sentenced to death (later changed to life imprisonment) but has escaped jail so far by living in Aachen, Germany.    

Italy and U.S. most successful in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice     ejpress :: 2008-03-28
Italy and the U.S. are the two most successful countries in bringing former Nazi war criminals to justice or at least convicting them in absentia. The report by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre (SWC). The worst countries, "which did not respond to the questionnaire, but clearly did not take any action whatsoever to investigate suspected Nazi war criminals", include: Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Greece, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Paraguay, Slovenia, Spain, Venezuela.    

Jonathan Silvers: Investigating Nazi war criminals for "Elusive Justice" -doc     bbc :: 2008-01-25
At first sight Vladas Zajanckauskas looks like an American patriarch in his 90s. But Eli Rosenbaum claims that he was part of Nazi Germany's extermination squads (the Einsatzgruppen), and was "a thrice-promoted, non-commissioned officer (NCO) at a school of mass murder". Zajanckauskas denies he was part of the squads or that he took part in the wipeout of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Ben Ferencz, the last living U.S. Nuremberg prosecutor, recites the Einsatzgruppen orders: "You will kill every Jewish man, woman and child... You do the same for the gypsies... for communist officials or anyone you suspect may pose a present or future threat to the Third Reich."    

Nazi Hunters raise reward for information from $10,000 to $25,000     spiegel :: 2008-01-15
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has increased its reward for information resulting to the capture of Nazi war criminals from $10,000 to $25,000 under its "Operation Last Chance" campaign. "The cash offer has proven very successful because without it we wouldn't have got one-hundredth of the attention that we got and it's the media attention that ultimately yields the information." Zuroff said there were "at least dozens" of Nazi war criminals still alive in South America, but named Austria a "paradise for Nazi war criminals. Austria has the worst record. If you compare the number of people involved, the potential for prosecution and what's been done."    

Nazi officer Paul Maria Hafner: Auschwitz was a 10 star hotel     dailymail.co.uk :: 2007-12-12
Nazi officer Paul Maria Hafner, who served in nazi camps and on the Eastern Front as an SS man, gives the Hitler salute in Spain where he has hidden for 60 years. Now he is the subject of a documentary "Hafner's Paradise," by Gunter Schwaiger, which accounts his life in exile and how he draws pensions from 3 countries. Hafner calls Auschwitz "a ten star hotel" where "Jews were sent for their own protection. All that stuff about murder is Allied propaganda... I regard Hitler as the greatest man who ever lived, the most important person in the history." He dreams of seeing a "Fourth Reich" and he told to a Dachau survivor: "You survived quite well."    

10 most wanted Nazis: Alois Brunner, Aribert Heim, Ivan Demjanjuk     telegraph.co.uk :: 2007-11-29
(1) Alois Brunner: a key operative of Adolf Eichmann. He is held responsible for transportation of 128,500 persons to Nazi death camps. (2) Aribert Heim: was a doctor in Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps, there is a reward of 310,000 euros on his head. He murdered hundreds of inmates by lethal injection. (3) Ivan Demjanjuk: took part in the mass murder in Sobibor death camp, and also served in Majdanek death camp and Trawniki SS-training camp. (7) Erna Wallisch: was a guard at Majdanek death camp and she has a acknowledged role in mass murder, but Austria refuses to prosecute due to a statute of limitations.     [Nazi hunters & nazis at large]

Germany continues to shelter a former SS officer wanted for murder     telegraph.co.uk :: 2007-11-29
The Daily Telegraph has tracked down ex SS-Obersturmfuehrer Søren Kam to the suburbs of Kempten im Allgäu, 75 miles from Munich. He is the highest decorated Nazi Dane after being awarded the Knight's Cross for his leadership of Danish SS men against the resistance of his countrymen. He is number 8th on the list of 10 most wanted Nazi war criminals up by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. But in Bavaria Kam, a man who met Adolf Hitler, lives openly. Kam has been charged by the Danish government for the murder in 1943 of anti-Nazi Carl Henrik Clemmensen. But Kam is protected: Munich courts threw out efforts to deport him back to Denmark.    

Frau Erna Wallisch is ranked 7 on the wanted Nazi war criminal list     telegraph.co.uk :: 2007-10-23
She looks like a harmless grandmother. But this little old lady has a dark past. Frau Erna Wallisch ranks number 7 on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's list of Nazi war criminals still on the loose. Tracked down by historian Guy Walters for book "Hunting Evil", she lives in an apartment in Vienna. Wallisch joined the Nazi party as a teenager and became a camp guard at the Ravensbruck women's camp - where SOE agent Violette Szabo was among the thousands killed. Oct 1942 - Jan 1944 she was based at Majdanek death camp. Former prisoner Jadwiga Landowska recalled how the then-pregnant Wallisch beat people to death.     [Nazi hunters & nazis at large]

10 prominent cases cracked by American Nazi hunters     statesman :: 2007-10-22
Elfriede Rinkel: A female guard and dog-handler at the Ravensbrueck camp in Nazi Germany. -- Otto von Bolschwing: An SS officer who proposed an anti-Jewish pogrom to Adolf Eichmann. Worked for the CIA after WWII. -- Viorel Trifa: As leader of the student wing of the Romanian fascist Iron Guard. In America, he became archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of North America. --- Arthur L.H. Rudolph: Operations director of the Mittelwerk underground V-2 missile factory, at the Dora-Mittelbau. In the US, he worked on Army missile projects, and at NASA he was project director of the Saturn V rocket program.    

Nazi war criminal Heinz Barth dies at 86     heraldsun :: 2007-08-14
Heinz Barth, a Nazi war criminal convicted for atrocities has died at 86. Barth, a former SS lieutenant, was jailed for life by a West German court in 1983 for his part in atrocities. They included the massacre at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane. On June 10, 1944, an Waffen-SS division shot, drowned or burned alive 647 villagers. Earlier in the war, in 1942, he served as an officer in a Nazi armoured regiment responsible for the slaughter of 91 people in Czechoslovakia. After the war, Barth lived under a false id in West Germany before being exposed. In 1997 he was released from jail on health grounds and because he had expressed his remorse.    

German state court rules former Nazi not required to serve out sentence     iht :: 2007-07-08
A German court ruled that a former Nazi convicted of murdering 3 people during World War II will not serve out a 1949 sentence of life in prison handed down by a Dutch tribunal. The man, whose identity was kept confidential by the Cologne state court, was convicted 57 years ago in absentia of shooting 3 people in the Dutch towns of Breda, Vorschooten and Wassenaar in 1944 while serving as a member of Hitler's SS. 5 years later, he was found guilty of the killings by a tribunal and sentenced to life in prison. But the Dutch-born man had already escaped the Netherlands and was living in Germany near Aachen.    

Convicted Nazi SS captain Erich Priebke has work permit revoked     earthtimes :: 2007-06-20
A military judge has revoked a work permit granted only a week ago to SS captain Erich Priebke. Sources said the concession was reversed because Priebke, serving a life sentence under house arrests, had failed to notify officials about his movements. But one of his lawyers told that judges had probably bowed to pressure by protesters. Priebke travelled to the city for his first day at work aboard a scooter driven by lawyer Guido Giachini. He had tried to conceal himself behind a pair of dark glasses but was identified by paparazzi, who chased him around. Priebke then spent 6 hours at work while protesters with anti-Nazi signs outside screamed "murderer!"    

100 people shouting "Murderer" to protest SS Captain Erich Priebke     b92 :: 2007-06-19
About 100 people, some shouting "Murderer!", gathered outside the Rome office where Waffen-SS Captain Erich Priebke, jailed for life for the massacre at the Ardeatine Caves near Rome during World War 2, was beginning his first day at work, following a court ruling that allows him to leave house arrest during daytime. "It's an absolute disgrace, people forget. People say 'It's enough now'. Enough for what? Nothing should be enough; there can never be enough grief," said Leone Sonnino. Priebke was extradited to Italy in 1995 from Argentina, where he fled after WW2 and worked for decades as a schoolteacher.    

Anger over daytime release of convicted Nazi Erich Priebke     bbc :: 2007-06-14
Several groups have expressed anger at the decision to grant day release to a convicted Nazi criminal Erich Priebke under house arrest in Rome. He is serving a life sentence for the murder of 335 people at the Ardeatine Caves. The 1944 massacre was a reprisal after partisans killed a patrol of 33 German soldiers. After WWII he lived in Argentina before being extradited to Italy in 1994, where he was allowed to serve his life sentence under house arrest due to his age and health problems. He will now be allowed to leave his flat, lent to him by a lawyer Paolo Giachini who campaigned for his freedom, during the day.    

Alleged Nazi war criminal Charles Zentai loses extradition appeal     theaustralian :: 2007-04-17
Extradition proceedings against Charles Zentai will resume after he lost an appeal to the full bench of the Federal Court. He has been fighting efforts by Hungary to extradite him from Perth to face a charge of murdering a teenage boy in Budapest during WWII. He was a warrant officer in the Hitler-aligned Hungarian army in 1944 when Peter Balazs was taken from a tram for not wearing the Yellow Star of David. It is alleged Mr Zentai and two accomplices took Peter to an army barracks and tortured him before killing him and dumping his body in the Danube on Nov 8, 1994. Mr Zentai maintains he left Budapest with his regiment on Nov 7, 1944.    

The unsung Nazi hunter - Stalag Luft III and Frank McKenna     blackpoolgazette.co.uk :: 2007-03-01
On the moonless night of March 24, 1944, 79 Allied officers tunnelled their way out of the German POW camp, Stalag Luft III at Sagan. Immortalised in the film The Great Escape, the reality was quite different. Of the escapees, all bar 3 were soon recaptured, and, of these, 50 were murdered by the Gestapo on the orders of Adolf Hitler. The fact that the murderers were brought to book, owed much to Frank McKenna. His greatest coup was to track down the murderer of Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, organiser of the escape. Gestapo official Emil Schulz was found and extradited in the course of a single day in 1946.    

I Have Never Forgotten You - The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal     reuters :: 2007-02-12
Simon Wiesenthal spent over half a century tracking down Nazi war criminals in a quest to deliver justice. Now a film looks back on his journey from concentration camp survivor to world-renowned super-sleuth, examining the controversial man behind the headlines. Cut from thousands of hours of archive footage and interviews, "I Have Never Forgotten You - The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal" describes the personal suffering that motivated Wiesenthal to dedicate his life to the pursuit of his Nazi tormentors. The film also documents how Wiesenthal worked in pursuit of Adolf Eichmann.    

German court blocks ex-SS member extradition to Denmark     signonsandiego :: 2007-02-06
A German court has blocked the extradition to Denmark of Soeren Kam, a former member of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel), wanted for the assassination of a journalist in 1943. A senior Nazi-hunter criticized the decision, saying time and old age could not erase guilt for Nazi crimes. Kam and several others are accused of shooting Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen to death in Lyngby. Clemmensen was kidnapped Aug. 30, 1943, and found dead the next morning. Kam has acknowledged that he was among the 3 SS officers who fired at Clemmensen, but said he fired only after Clemmensen was dead.    

Nazi Hunter Criticizes Serbia Officials     sfgate :: 2007-01-25
A Nazi hunter criticized Serbian authorities for failing to seek the extradition of 3 men with suspected links to atrocities during World War II. Efraim Zuroff said Serbian authorities have done little to bring to justice Croats Ivo Rojnica and Milivoj Asner, and Hungarian Sandor Kepiro. "Sadly, we have heard a lot of nice words, but there was no concrete action." Rojnica, 92, maybe hiding in Argentina, and Asner, 91, is living in Austria. Both men served in Croatia's World War 2 Nazi puppet regime.    

Italy convicts 10 former members of the Nazi SS of massacre     bbc :: 2007-01-15
Italy has sentenced 10 members of the 16th SS Division to life imprisonment for their role in the worst World War 2 massacre on Italian soil. The defendants, all in their 80s and believed to live in Germany, were tried in absentia. Between 29 Sept and 5 Oct, 1944, retreating Nazi troops carrying out reprisals for the local support given to resistance fighters killed civilians. The number of those killed in Marzabotto is put at more than 700, and some records say as many as 1,800 were killed by the SS forces as they swept the area in pursuit of partisans.    

Intelligence officer who captured Nazi officers, including Hitler's staff     sptimes :: 2007-01-14
Ernest Drucker struggles to create order out of memories he would rather forget. But about the U.S. soldier who was part of World War II's D-day invasion and became a counterintelligence officer who captured Nazi officers, incl. members of Adolf Hitler's personal staff. He is writing a book, trying to get it all down. With a staff of 10 men, he traveled the country chasing Hitler. "We captured many of Hitler's personal staff. We thought maybe we could catch him, too. We really chased him, but he escaped to Berlin." His mementos, include pictures confiscated from Hitler's staff photographer and a cue card for a speech that Hitler wrote on - worth $10,000.    

Indefatigable Nazi Hunter Elliot Welles dies     nytimes :: 2006-12-04
Elliot Welles spent the years after World War 2 as a hunter of Nazis, starting with the man who murdered his mother. For more than two decades he directed the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League's task force on Nazi war criminals. Though he preferred to work out of the limelight, he was one of the key forces in identifying Nazis who had settled in the US. He was known for his work on the case of Boleslav Maikovskis, who had been charged with ordering the arrests that led to the execution of 200 Latvian villagers. Among the other cases was that of Josef Schwammberger, a Nazi labor camp commander who hid for 40 years in Argentina.    

100 Nazis uncovered by Nazi-hunting office in US     tvnz :: 2006-10-23
Painstaking scouring of historical records and an occasional lucky break have helped the US solve some of the coldest cases of the Hitler's Nazi Regime and find more than 100 Nazi collaborators. The US cannot prosecute the cases, mainly because the events took place on foreign territory. But it can assist in the extradition of Nazis. "We found in the former Soviet Union and other communist countries a veritable treasure trove of evidence," said Eli Rosenbaum, director of the US Nazi-hunting Office.    

Nazi hunters id gendarmerie officer of Novi Sad massacre in 1942     iht :: 2006-09-30
The past caught up with Sandor Kepiro when Wiesenthal Center identified him as a person twice found guilty in atrocities committed by Hungarian forces during World War II. In wartime he was found guilty along with 14 other Hungarian Army and gendarmerie officers of taking part in the 1942 Novi Sad massacre, which took place over 3 days during which thousands were rounded up and shot by machine gun. Their bodies were then dumped into the frozen Danube waters, which had to be broken up by cannon fire. Although found guilty he was freed by Hungary's fascist regime in 1944 and fled to Argentina.    

WW2 accused hounded to death by Nazi hunters and media?     warcrimes.info :: 2006-07-13
A Melbourne man accused of war crimes during World War II was an innocent man hounded to death by Nazi hunters and the media, his son said. Lajos Polgar admitted he was a youth leader in the Arrow Cross party in Hungary, and he also worked as a secretary to a senior leader of the government, which ruled under German occupation from October 1944 to January 1945. The party was allied to the Nazis. Leading Nazi hunter Dr Efraim Zuroff had been investigating Mr Polgar's past - he was disappointed that Mr Polgar died before he was thoroughly investigated. "It's very frustrating, to put it mildly."    

Footsteps and motives of Nazi Hunters     strausnews :: 2006-05-21
Two experiences after the war moved Wiesenthal to become a Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff said. After liberation, the Americans left in place a Polish prisoner that the Germans had given authority within the camp. The Polish camp boss, however, treated the Jews as harshly as ever. Seeing Wiesenthal, he said more with disappointment than surprise: "Simon, you're still alive?" Soon he was contacted to retrieve some books and return them to their rightful place. An inscription in one of the books read: "If anyone finds this book, please give it to ... They are coming now to kill us. Do not forget our murderers."    

The world's most famous living Nazi hunter - Serge Klarsfeld     cjnews :: 2006-03-23
Serge Klarsfeld is probably the world's most famous living Nazi hunter, credited with having brought to justice war criminals ranging from Maurice Papon to Klaus Barbie; convinced the president of France, Jacques Chirac, to acknowledge his country's complicity in the deaths of some 80,000 Jews. Klarsfeld and his equally motivated wife, Beate, a German convert to Judaism, are best known for their quest in tracking down "desk murderers" - French and German officials who signed orders to arrest and deport Jews in France during the German occupation.    

Torture files uncovered - of the fascist Hungarian Arrow Cross     thecouriermail :: 2006-02-18
Court papers detailing torture, rape and murder at the headquarters of a Nazi-aligned regime allegedly commanded by a Melbourne pensioner have been uncovered in Holocaust archives in Jerusalem. The testimonies of Holocaust survivors tortured in the basement of the Budapest headquarters of the fascist Hungarian Arrow Cross party back up the new evidence revealed this week. Included in the evidence sent to Budapest by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre are several additional testimonies of survivors who gave evidence in the post-war trials of Arrow Cross officials.    

Yard reopens inquiry into former Nazi soldiers still alive in Britain     guardian :: 2006-02-04
Scotland Yard has relaunched its search for war criminals almost seven years after its specialist Nazi-hunting unit was disbanded. The team is focusing on former members of a division of the Waffen SS which was recruited by the Nazis in the Ukraine and brought to Britain en masse to provide farm labour after the war. Home Office officials believe several hundred former members of the unit may still be living in the UK. The Guardian has identified and located more than a dozen survivors of the Galizien division. Most still live in small clusters in the East Midlands, Yorkshire and East Anglia, a short distance from the PoW camps where they arrived almost six decades ago.    

Ex-Nazi SS Officer Niznansky Acquitted of WWII Charges     msnbc :: 2005-12-20
A former Nazi commander was acquitted of murder in three massacres in Slovakia after a court said there was no reliable evidence he was involved in the killings. Ladislav Niznansky sat stone-faced as his acquittal on 164 counts of murder was announced. Niznansky, a former Slovak army captain who at first supported the 1944 revolt, changed sides after he was captured and took charge of the Slovak section of a Nazi unit, code-named Edelweiss, that hunted resistance fighters.    

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies at 96     BBC :: 2005-09-29
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal has died aged 96. He was credited with helping to bring over 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice in the decades after the genocide of the Jews in the Second World War. They included Adolf Eichmann, Hermine Ryan and Franz Stangl (commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor Nazi death camps). Wiesenthal, who grew up in Ukraine, was a prisoner in the Mauthausen death camp when it was freed by US troops in May 1945, but dozens of his family members (including his mother, stepfather and stepbrother) perished in the Holocaust.    

See also:
'Nazi Memorabilia'
'Rings & relics of nazi leaders'
'Aribert Heim'
'How nazis escaped'
'Nazi Guards'
'WW2 tour'
'Nazi Helmets'
'John Demjanjuk'.

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