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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Pat Buchanan will be making a tearful plea for clemency in this case on cable TV tonight.
The gig, education? I think the Weisenthal Center will keep that up for awhile. As to tipping off "your suspect", there is no identified suspect, only a region near a family member where he's thought to be living. Thus the need for further information.
Seems to me these guys are going to be out of business very soon. I wonder what they’ll do when there’s no more Nazis left?
The gig, education? I think the Weisenthal Center will keep that up for awhile. Catching barbarians like the doctor, I suppose that gig will end soon. As to tipping off "your suspect", there is no identified suspect, only a region near a family member where he's thought to be living. Thus the need for further information.
The suspect would know who he is, so if they point out a region they think he might be in, it would give him the opportunity to hide or move. At least in my view. Of course if the guy is so old and does not even care about running, this could help track him down.
“Heim, who would be 94 if he’s still alive...”
Good Lord, it’s been 65 years. Let’s move on down the road. There are plenty of active monsters we should be hunting down, like Mugabe and H. Chavez.
Besides, the Lord will mete out eternal justice on this man, and there’s nowhere he can run from that.
You would not say that if your family members were murdered by this man.Go after all of them.
not me. Just shoot him.
Maybe he's hoping a private citizen will find him and torture him before killing him. Then there will be no worries about prisoners rights, blah blah.
Suppose you had a guy you thought was him (same age, general description, similar facial bone structure, German accent, etc.)
Leak the information that you've got a solid lead on the war criminal, and if he twitches, he's worth a closer look.
This guy:
CA: Body found in Oakland Hills is Nina Reiser
Tipped his hand when a fellow inmate noticed that he rushed to the TV when a report of a body being discovered in the Oakland Hills came on. The inmate thought it was distinctly odd that he was so visibly relieved when they identified the body as that of a black male...
Well, maybe you would feel differently if it was one of your relatives who had his kidney and testicles cut off and then got decapitated. Sorry, in my worldview there is always time to hunt down one more monster in human form.
Maybe they will start hunting down islamist nazi clones. That would be good for a start.
Mengele was called the “Angel of Death”.
I’m pleased to hear that. I was pretty taken aback, previously, when the comment was made and seconded.
Doubt it all you want. It happened.
Thanks for the clarification.
And how many others did he repeat the experiment, without anesthesia?
It's a tactical decision. You're, the suspect is being warned, which presents the risk of flight. Eichmans presence wouldn't have been "announced". On the other hand, they don't know where he is or his identity, publicity helps in that regard, and once a couple investigators arrive in a remote area in Chile, he'll be warned anyway. Hope they get him, I just don't have the information or knowledge to criticize their tactics one way or another, other than I don't think fund raising is a consideration.
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