in 1958 Heim apparently felt comfortable enough to buy a 42-unit apartment block in Berlin, listing it in his own name with a home address in Mannheim, according to purchase documents obtained by the AP. He then moved to the nearby resort town of Baden-Baden and opened a gynecological clinic — also under his own name, Heister said. In 1961, German authorities were alerted and began an investigation, but when they finally went to arrest him in September 1962, they just missed him — he apparently had been tipped off. Heim continued to live off the rents collected from the Berlin apartments until 1979 when the building was confiscated by German authorities.
This man was an inhuman monster who performed unspeakable atrocities on innocent victims, yet the authorities clearly showed no interest in bringing him to justice. Grrrr.
Yes, very little interest.
Germany is currently trying Heinrich Boere, an SS man who killed a number of Dutch civilians, and was tried in absentia, his choice not to show up, and sentenced to death in the late 1940s. Dutch pop, but a German mom, thus a German citizen, and Germany doesn't deport their citizens. Even German war criminals in the post war period. And, well he killed Dutch folk in their country, so no crime in Germany. He lived a free life in Germany, till now.