Soren Kam, a Danish national, has moved up to number four on
the ten most wanted list for World War II Nazi wartime
criminals after a recent revision of the rankings. Kam’s
upgrade is the result of reports that Aribert Heim, the
doctor who gave lethal injections to victims at the Mathausen
camp, may have died in Egypt.
“New evidence suggests that [Heim] 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 Politiken reported.
Soren Kam is wanted for his role in
the murder of anti-Nazi Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik
Clemmensen. Kam is also believed to have helped facilitate
the roundup of Denmark’s Jewish community by stealing the
Danish population registry. This led to the deportation of
countless Danish Jews to Nazi concentration camps, where
many died.
Kam is known to be living in Germany,
but Denmark has been unsuccessful in getting Germany to extradite
him to face the charges despite having a European warrant
out for his arrest.
Topping the most wanted list compiled
by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre is Ivan Demjanjuk, a Nazi
who took part in the mass murder of Jews at Sobibor concentration
camp. He is currently fighting an extradition order to move
him from the US to Germany to face charges.
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