Posted on 07/09/2008 12:35:58 PM PDT by BGHater
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has received leads that "Dr. Death" Aribert Heim, the center's most wanted Nazi war criminal, is alive and living in Patagonia, Chile. The center's chief Nazi hunter is due to travel there this week.
The hunt for "Dr. Death" Aribert Heim, the Nazi war criminal wanted for murdering hundreds of prisoners in concentration camps during World War II, has intensified after the Simon Wiesenthal's chief Nazi hunter received fresh leads during a visit to South America.
Efraim Zuroff, a Holocaust historian who heads the center's Jerusalem office, told media that he had received information that Heim was in the Patagonia region of southern Chile, where his daughter lives.
"In the last few days we've received information from two different sources, both relating to Chile, which we think have very good potential," said Efraim Zuroff, according to the Reuters news agency.
Heim, who would be 94 if he's still alive, was an Austrian medical doctor in the SS. He is alleged to have murdered hundreds of concentration camp inmates with experiments that included injecting poison into their hearts. He tops the Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals.
Heim decorated his office with human body parts during World War II, even using the skull of a man he decapitated as a paperweight.
Zuroff is currently in South America to promote "Operation Last Chance," the Wiesenthal Center's initiative to obtain information that could lead to the prosecution and punishment of the last surviving Nazi war criminals.
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I’m waiting for the “why can’t they just leave him alone, he’s an old man” crowd to show up.
Why can’t they just leave him alone, he’s an old man...
There's a crowd like that on FreeRepublic? I'd be inclined to doubt that.
We have the occasional troll...
Good huntin’, Zuroff. Catch the old Nazi sonovabitch.
I’d be surprised I guess. I’d think most freepers would want him caught, tried, convicted and hung. Me included.
I sometimes come out that way with low level flunkies who seem to have led reformed lives. But what this guy did is beyond the pale. I hope they get him.
"Efraim Zuroff, a Holocaust historian who heads the center's Jerusalem office, told media that he had received information that Heim was in the Patagonia region of southern Chile, where his daughter lives.
"In the last few days we've received information from two different sources, both relating to Chile, which we think have very good potential," said Efraim Zuroff, according to the Reuters news agency.
Why would Efraim Zuroff be talking about fresh hot tips on fugitives in the press, as that would tip off any target they were hunting for?
So -- is Efraim Zuroff after Nazis, or after publicity? Or after funding so that they can keep the prospect alive that there are still Nazis to hunt, and therefore his funding sources should keep giving?
I thought Dr. Jack Kervorkian was “Dr. Death?”
I bet he is upset there are cheap imitators infringing on his well-earned name and reputation.
Well there are only so many years to keep up this gig. You would think it would not be wise to tip off your suspect.
Publicity leads to more tips?
According to a former camp inmate, an 18-year-old Jewish youth came to the clinic with a foot inflammation. He was asked by Heim why it was that he was so fit. He replied that he had been a soccer player and swimmer. Instead of treating the prisoner's foot, Heim placed him under anesthesia, cut him open, took apart one kidney, removed the second and castrated him. The boy was decapitated and Heim boiled the flesh off the skull so it could be displayed, the former inmate said.
I read that over half of the deaths of children under one year of age in The Netherlands are from ‘involuntary euthanasia’ by doctors. Maybe he’s taken up residence there.
I think the risk of a 94 year old bolting would be pretty low, so there’s not much downside, and the publicity might turn up some fresh leads.
One reason? To spook the game out of hiding.
Catch him and drop him from the top of the Torres del Paine. (two large, side by side mountains in Patagonia)
I doubt it’s for fundraising, many of their leads are generated as a result of publicity. In fact I believe this information was developed as a result of their publicity campaign a few months ago.
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