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The leader of Germany's Jewish community says the race to catch surviving Nazi war criminals before they die has been "lost".   Last Updated: 1:12PM GMT 02 Dec 2008 Charlotte Knobloch, president of the German Central Council of Jews, was speaking at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the central office for investigating Nazi war crimes. She said the agency's greatest achievements included compiling evidence between 1963 and 1965 to prosecute the key surviving commanders and guards from the Auschwitz death camp where 1.1 million people were killed. Frau Knobloch praised the agency but said the German justice system...

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...

The former SS guard kept her secret buried, even from her Jewish husband. Now exposed, the Bay Area widow, 83, is back in Germany. WASHINGTON — She lived alone in a tiny, top-floor apartment in one of the tougher sections of San Francisco. At 83, she was short and a bit stout. Diabetes took the sight in one of her eyes; arthritis left her leaning heavily on a cane. For long trips, she took a taxi. Her husband had died. He was the love of her long life, a short, dapper man who had worked as a bartender and waiter...

Demjanjuk in court to fight extradition to UkraineLong story, short: John Demjanjuk is an ill, wheelchair bound 85 year old Russian immigrant who originally served as a Russian soldier, but was taken prisoner by the Germans in WW II. As a Russian prisoner of war he may have been assigned to Jewish death camps [his entire history is conjecture] Wilkipedia He emigrated to the U.S. in 1951 and spent the most of his American life working at a Ford plant and raising a family. In the late seventies Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal with fellow U.S. Justice Department Nazi Hunters...

80-year-old Caledonia, WI man faces deportation An 80-year-old Racine County man who has lived in the Midwest for nearly 50 years has been stripped of U.S. citizenship for his service as a guard at Nazi concentration camps. After World War II, Josias Kumpf, 80, came to the United States and worked as a sausage-maker. He now lives with his daughter and son-in-law in Caledonia. He has been an American citizen for half his lifetime. A federal judge this week revoked the citizenship of Josias Kumpf on the grounds that it was granted in violation of the Refugee Relief Act of...

To his supporters, Erich Priebke is an old man who has paid for his mistakes and should be pardoned. To his foes, the 90-year-old convicted Nazi war criminal, who's serving a life sentence under house arrest, shouldn't be allowed to walk free ever again. Both sides plan demonstrations Saturday to make their cases, sparking anew a debate over Priebke's fate that has involved Rome's mayor, Jewish organizations and Italian lawmakers. "The people in Italy should show compassion for Priebke's victims, their widows and orphans by insisting that Erich Priebke never again be in a position to walk the streets of...