Luke
Harding, Berlin, The Guardian
A final attempt to track down
Germany's last surviving Nazis, including an SS doctor who
disappeared after the second world war, has been launched
in Berlin.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said yesterday it was extending
its attempt to catch elderly war criminals living in eastern
Europe, entitled Operation Last Chance, to Germany. The centre
is offering a €10,000 (about £7,000) reward for
information, and placing adverts in German newspapers with
the slogan: "Nazi murderers are still among us."
Efraim Zuroff, the centre's Israeli director, said he believed
there were still thousands of war criminals who had been
living in Germany since the second world war, and who had
not been brought to justice.
Top of the list is Aribert Heim, an SS doctor who worked
at the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz, in Austria.
He is accused of killing inmates with deadly injections.
Mr Zuroff said he was convinced Heim was still alive. "He
has a fortune of €1m lying in a Berlin bank. If he were
dead, his heirs would have got in touch," he said. Others
on the list include Alois Brunner, who worked closely with
Adolf Eichmann and was responsible for deporting tens of
thousands of Jews to their deaths from across Europe. He
is believed to be living in Damascus, Syria.
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