Top row, 2nd to last.
Posted on 04/29/2008 6:43:48 PM PDT by Comparative Advantage
The hunt for Heim has taken investigators from the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg all around the world. Besides his home country of Austria and neighboring Germany where he settled after the war, tips have come from Uruguay in 1998, Spain, Switzerland and Chile in 2005, and Brazil in 2006, said Heinz Heister, presiding judge of the Baden-Baden state court, where Heim was indicted in absentia on hundreds of counts of murder in 1979.
Thousands of German war criminals were prosecuted in West Germany after World War II. In the 1970s Western democracies began a hunt in earnest for Eastern European collaborators who had fled West claiming to be refugees from communism, and the end of the Cold War gave access to a trove of communist files in the 1990s.
"All of a sudden there was pressure on countries like Latvia and Estonia to put these people on trial," Zuroff said. "So two times in the past 30 years we've been given a tremendous infusion of new energy and new possibilities."
The Wiesenthal Center's previous annual survey counted 1,019 investigations under way worldwide. The number is lower this year and inexact because not all countries responded, but new investigations were up from 63 to 202, Zuroff said.
Still, a lack of political will in many countries, and what Zuroff called the "misplaced-sympathy syndrome" - reluctance to pursue aging suspects - has meant that few people have been brought to trial and convicted.
Lotter, the witness to Heim's atrocity, was in Mauthausen because he fought with the communists in the Spanish Civil War. His statement from the 1950 arrest warrant was viewed by the AP at the National Archives in College Park, Md.
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So who covered for him?
There are many German colonies in Paraguay.
I sure hope these people have checked there. I have an aunt who befriended one of the old ladies down there who claimed to have helped the Germans against the Russian and USA armies.
Aribert Heim is the Nazi doctor who is famous for atrocities. He's not in the picture you posted.
3 seconds!
From the article:
From the Wikipedia entry you cite:
Great, Communists chasing Nazis, the Good Guys after the Bad Guys! Yes, the Communists had good intentions and the Nazis bad intentions, children.
Find them, kill them, then try them. My relatives demand justice!
Re the Communists chasing Nazis. Hardly. Three cabinet ministers in the East German government were members of the SS, plus many East German govt journalists, politicians, and military.
Simon Weisenthal sent me the Nazi Party cards and photos of many of them in 1969 and I helped renew their exposure in several American publications. Top on my list was SS Deputy Commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Ernest Grossmann, the East German Minister of Agriculture.
Protected by Stalin and Khrushchev and Brezhnev, etc. Hiding in plain sight.
Other Nazis worked for Nasser’s Egypt until an Israel bomb killed bunch of them. Alois and others lived and worked in Syria for the government. No one knows how many Peron hide in Argentina, while others lived in Chile, Brazil, and possibly Uruguay.
Kill them all. It is never too late for justice.
Family died in Belzec and Auschwitz, if they weren’t first shot in Lemberg/Lvov.
This filthy misplaced sympathy for these repulsive “aged” murderers by certain countries is disgusting.
That picture is of a German ARMY Panzer soldier. It is not an SS uniform. I thought Heim was a doctor in the Waffen SS.
Looks a tad like Ernst Kaltenbrunner, another Austrian, and Reinhardt Heydrich’s successor as head of RSHA.
They are never too old to be hunted.They are never too old to hang.
"Lotter, the witness to Heim's atrocity, was in Mauthausen because he fought with the communists in the Spanish Civil War."
This morning's newspaper article has this first sentence (also from AP):
"Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen"
But the article omits a mention of Lotter's participation in the "noble cause" in Spain fighting the evil fascists. My point? Mr Lotter, was likely another war criminal himself committing his own lovely atrocities in Spain, and decades and decades of brainwashing and lies have us all automatically think of Spanish Civil War as a fight between the angelic volunteers and evil fascists.
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