I think there is a real problem here, but not an obvious one.
I have no problem with the iron determination to hunt down and punish old Nazis. I think it is a grand idea. Grand enough so that organizations should have been created to do the same thing for other horrific acts that happened subsequently to WWII.
Yes, there are some efforts to hunt down war criminals from other conflicts, and even human monsters who commit their acts in time of peace, but none of them have this passionate drive seen in the hunt for Nazis.
Why not?
The US Marshals service typically chases down some 35,000 or so fugitives every year. They are very good at what they do. Imagine if there was an international agency with that kind of determination to police up war criminals?
Looking in every nook and cranny in the world. Publishing the names of known fugitives being protected by some nation’s government could be hugely embarrassing to them. Catching those fugitives if they ever dare to leave their benefactor nations.
There are far too many such villains able to die of old age in their own beds.
So why hasn’t George Soros been arrested?
His past is well known and he has publicly admitted collaboration with the Nazis!
I’m sure he’s had help from ‘friends in high places’ — no doubt about that — but opportunities haven’t been exploited, I’ll bet, even when there was opportunity and good cause to arrest him out in the open.
There was a WWII Nazi War criminal named Andrija Artukovic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Artukovi%C4%87 , who lived here in the US, in Seal Beach Ca, for nearly 40 years with EVERYONE knowing who he was and what he did. This guy was the second in command of the WWII Nazi Independent State of Croatia who sent hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies to their deaths. But still it took 40 years to finally get him deported in the 1980’s. By that time he was old & senile, and wound up living under house arrest until he died, even though he’d officially been given the death sentence.
In answer to your question, prosecuting these guys has always been a matter of diplomacy and how powerful their friends and enemies are — not a matter of “justice”.
For example with Artukovic, I had a family friend who worked on Artukovic’s original deportation trial back in the 1950’s. At the time, Simon Wiesenthal had other big fish to fry so he and another Jewish lawyer were on their own. They got nowhere. The gov of Yugoslavia didn’t want Artukovic back and Artukovic had the Roman Catholic church on his side. They lost. His assesment was that until Jews took up the cause wholeheartedly, nothing would happen. He was right. When Jewish organizations banded together back in the 1980’s to push the Artukovic case, it got done.