'Nazi hunt' launched in S America

BBC ^ | 26 Nov 2007 | BBC

[BGHater]

An estimated six million Jews were murdered in the Nazi death camps A "final effort" is under way in South America to track down and prosecute ex-Nazi war criminals before they die. Operation Last Chance - a scheme devised by the Simon Wiesenthal Center - attempts to locate Nazis in hiding. It takes the form of a media campaign and offers financial rewards for any information that results in conviction. The four countries involved are Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil - where large numbers of Nazis are thought to have fled following World War II. 'Important results' The operation - launched in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in July 2002 - has so far provided the names of 488 suspects from 20 different countries, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said. Simon Wiesenthal survived the Nazi death camps of World War II According to the group, 99 cases have been submitted to local prosecutors, resulting in three arrest warrants, two extradition requests and dozens of ongoing investigations. "Given the large number of Nazi war criminals and collaborators who escaped to South America, the launching of Operation Last Chance has the potential to yield important results," said the Center's chief Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff. The operation will formally launch at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Tuesday. The center's founder, Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, died two years ago. He was credited with helping to bring more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice in the decades after the genocide of the Jews in World War II. Six million Jews were murdered in the Nazi death camps, along with thousands of Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people and political dissidents.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Pssssst - don’t forget Paraguay!

[DoughtyOne]

While I admire that tenacity involved here, isn’t it getting to the point that it would almost impossible to prosecute or defend against these types of charges?

[dr.zaeus]

...or Gwinnett County, GA. Oh yeah, he already fled the country.

[BGHater]

I know. If only they were that adamant against the Islamic radicals.

[AppyPappy]

How many could be left at this point?

[BGHater]

Dam, at least 300-400 at Columbia Univ.

[DoughtyOne]

You may be on to something there.

[Borges]

94 year old Erich Priebke is still alive and in prison. He was just prosecuted recently.

[SolidWood]

The Mossad and IDF never were squeamish about getting rid of Muzzie Nazis. What some wimpy Israeli cabinets do is a different story.

[bill1952]

I agree with you. I admire the tenacity.

I do believe that at this stage in the affairs of the prosecution of any surviving Nazis on the loose, the efforts are largely symbolic of the never ending search for justice. A long arm of the law concept, as it were.

In other words, you are right. :)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

General Streossner didn’t care where you came from as long as there was cash involved.

[quikdrw]

I agree. I wonder how many of the Nazis could still be alive. And if they were alive, would they have dementia or Alzheimer’s disease?

[AU72]

Wish Stalin’s henchman were hunted down with 10% of the effort put into bringing Nazis to justice.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Operation Last Chance - a scheme devised by the Simon Wiesenthal Center - attempts to locate Nazis in hiding. .................. At this point in time who is left, a few former members of the Hitler Youth?

[Old North State]

The Nazis were terrible people who did terrible things and have been hunted down with tenacity for a generation, good.
So why are the communists given a free pass? The Stalinist, Maoists et al, killed more people and destroyed more of Civilization than the Nazis, yet they continue to operate openly in much of the West and are tolerated if not venerated by the Left in America.

[DoughtyOne]

And that is good.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the comments Bill. I appreciate it.

[DoughtyOne]

Good question. If they can be substantiated, the charges should definately keep on coming. I was just making an observation, possibly even a lame one. It’s just that if I was asked to confirm something even 40 years ago, it would be hard.

[ansel12]

“Six million Jews were murdered in the Nazi death camps, along with thousands of Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people and political dissidents.”

Half of the victims have been erased from memory, who did that?