A Dane is number four on a list of World War II ‘Most Wanted’
Nazi criminals.
A Dane is high on the list of the 10 most wanted World War II Nazi criminals,
according to a revised Most Wanted List released by the Simon
Wiesenthal Centre.
Søren Kam figures as number four on the list for wartime crimes in having participated
in the murder of the anti-Nazi Danish newspaper editor Carl
Henrik Clemmensen.
He is also alleged to have stolen
the population registry of the Danish Jewish Community to
facilitate the roundup and subsequent deportation of Danish
Jews to Nazi concentration camps, where dozens perished.
Denmark has unsuccessfully sought
to have Kam extradited to Denmark in connection with a European
arrest warrant to face charges, but Germany has been unwilling
to extradite him.
In November 2008, the Danish Prosecutor’s
Office dropped further attempts to have Kam extradited on
charges of aiding and abetting the deportation of Danish
Jews to Nazi concentration camps, saying there was no direct
evidence to show that he was involved in stealing the population
registry.
Rise
Kam’s rise to No. 4 on the Most Wanted List comes following
reports that Aribert Heim, a doctor who administered lethal
injections to inmates at the Mathausen camp, has died in
Egypt.
“New evidence suggests that he may
have died in Cairo in 1992, but serious doubts regarding
these findings and the fact that there is no corpse to examine,
raises doubts as to the veracity of this information,” the
Center says, but in its new list does not give him a number.
Demjanjuk
Top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center list is now Ivan Demjanjuk
who is fighting to rescind a deportation order from the
United States to Germany. Demjanjuk is alleged to have
taken part in the mass murder of Jews at the Sobibor concentration
camp.
Second is Dr. Sandor Kepiro of Hungary
who took part in the mass murder of 1,200 civilians in Novi
Sad in Serbia, followed by the police chief of Slavonska
Pozega in Croatia Milivoj Asner for his active role in the
persecution and deportation of hundreds of Serbs, Jews and
Roma. He resides in Austria.
Following Søren Kam of Denmark, the
Wiesenthal Center lists Klaas Carl Faber who worked for the
German Security Service in Holland. His death sentence for
murdering prisoners at the Westerbrok transit camp and Groningen
prison was commuted to life imprisonment, but he escaped
to Germany in 1952.
Will
While some countries have made inroads, the Center says that
a lack of political will to bring Nazi criminals to justice
and punish them continues to be a major obstacle in achieving
justice.
“In this regard, Lithuania’s decision
not to implement a jail sentence for Algimantas Dailide stands
out as one of the more outrageous legal decisions related
to Nazi war criminals during the period under review,” the
Center says. Algimantas is No. 9 on the list.
It adds that the most disappointing
result in a specific case during the period under review
has been Hungary’s failure to bring Dr. Sandor Kepiro to
justice. politiken.dk
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