As the Allied military unit infest Germany and it became decipherable that Germany had lost the Second World War , the ruler of the Third Reich , Adolf Hitler and his fiancée take their lives in a bunker in Berlin . Other member of the Nazi political party and army , however , fled Germany , scattering across the ball . Catching these hoi polloi and wreak them to trial became a priority after the war .
Most of the top officials were capture and tried . In November 1945 , at the famousNuremberg Trials , 22menwere tried – one in absentia . In October 1946 , the verdict were handed down : Three were acquitted , the other 18 present were found guilty . Eleven of those 18 were sentence to pay heed ; the rest were sentenced to prison .
While the prosecutors at Nuremberg were largely successful , the Allied leaders remained acutely aware that a great many warfare crook remained at turgid . After all , it need many more than 22 men to race the death camp , guide ghastly experiments and exterminate jillion of masses .
Argentina was one of the main locales where Nazis who escaped Nuremberg fled . Thanks to loose in-migration procedures and an administration head by Juan Perón , believed to have really help Nazis ' escape to South America , hundreds – if not 1000 – of warfare criminals are thought to have settle there . But Perón is n’t the only leader to brush aside the crimes of fleeing Nazis . As authors Rory Carroll and Uki Goni said in an article in The Guardian , " With the Cold War recrudesce out , America , Britain and the Soviet Union poached Nazi scientist , so this is a guinea pig without moral high ground , but Perón ’s welcome extend to serviceman with few talents beyond aggregative murder , " [ author : Carroll , Goni ] . Indeed , documents declassify in 1999 reveal that theCIAactively engaged in covering up the whereabouts of former Nazi war criminals , prefer instead to habituate them as agents and informants in West Germany following World War II [ source : AP ] .
But despite the confederative complicity in covering for some warfare felon , the hunt for fleeing Nazis proceed . And it continues to this twenty-four hour period . But more than 60 years after the state of war , are there any Nazis still at large ? At least one mathematical group think so . Read about real - life Nazi hunters on the next varlet .
The Nazi Hunters
A few of the heavy fish who escaped Nuremberg were captured later . One of the top leaders of the Nazi party , Adolf Eichmann , was abduct from his home in Argentina in 1960 by agents of the Mossad , the closelipped Israeli intelligence service . He was tried and doom in 1961 and hang up in 1962 [ seed : The History Place ] . Klaus Barbie , " The Butcher of Lyon , " who is said to have enjoy physically torturing prisoners , include tike , was captured in Bolivia in 1983 . Barbie , who had worked as an agent for the British and then the Americans following World War II , was found guilty and condemn to life in prison house , where he conk in 1991 [ source : Judaic Virtual Library ] .
Now in the 21st 100 , it ’s acquire that most of the top officials who evade justice have died one fashion or another . After all , amanwho was 35 in 1940 would be 103 old age old by 2008 .
Efraim Zuroff , the director of theSimon Wiesenthal Center , believes that some war criminals are still alive . The Wiesenthal Center is dedicated to chase down lam war criminals and persuade local official to prosecute or deport them . Zuroff says he believes that there are " at least dozens " of Nazis still evading capture today [ germ : Spiegel ] . Since clip is running out – many of these lower - level Nazi war criminals have entered their XC by now – the Simon Wiesenthal Center has launched Operation Last Chance , a final effort to bring as many Nazis to trial run as can be found before they die of previous age .
With many of the social rank - and - file members of the Nazi army reaching the last class of their lives , the Simon Wiesenthal Center has launchedOperation Last Chanceas a final attempt at bringing these mass to jurist . The Center increased its received $ 10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of war felon to $ 25,000 , and Central and South American governments that have resisted elbow grease to capture war crook in the past are now join forces [ source : Carroll , Goni ] .
The Center is hop-skip the push will reveal one Nazi in particular , and Zuroff says that if he can be pick up , the last - ditch operation will have been a success [ root : Carroll , Goni ] . find oneself out about this war criminal and his barbarity , as well as why he may still be alive , on the next Thomas Nelson Page .
Doctor Death
If get , the low - level German Nazi believed to still be live wo n’t confront individual charges as their superiors did . Still , they would be eligible to face electric charge for criminal offence against humanity for their role as guards or official at the engrossment camps the Nazis maintained during World War II . At least one person animated will look a list of specific charges if he can be find , however . Thismanis the most prized of all those the Simon Wiesenthal Center seeks .
Aribert Heim , an Austrian - carry medic who served as a doctor at concentration camps during the war , has a bounty of $ 448,000 on his school principal . Heim , who ’s now 93 ( if he ’s still live ) , earned the low-spirited nickname " Doctor Death " for experiments he extend out at the camps at Sachsenhausen , Buchenwald and Mauthausen . It was here that he do unnecessary surgery , such as amputation , on captive without anesthesia . Camp survivor say Heim was fond of keep an eye on inmate into whose hearts he injectedgasoline , wateror poison to see how long it would take them to pass . The flesh of the head of one humanity who stand such an injection was afterwards boiled off and his skull used a paperweight . As a endowment for a pack commander , Heim is reported to have fashion prat program out of the pelt of con . In all , Heim is believed to have personally murdered around 300 people .
A 2007 memoir by Israeli commando Danny Baz recounts a story of his own participation in the capture and murder of Heim in 1982 . But in 2009 , the New York Timesreported the discoveryof a briefcase in Cairo that contained documents suggesting that Heim had lived in Egypt under the name Tarek Hussein Farid and died there in 1992 . However , the Wiesenthal Center still believes that Aribert Heim is animated today . It dismisses a write up by his family that he fail in 1993 of cancer . The investigator have good reason to remain searching for Heim .
A bank account in his name containing more than $ 1 million could be claim by his phratry if he is , in fact , dead . His heirs have made no such title on the money . His son fix up a phone melodic line in Heim ’s name in Denmark in 2005 , where the medico is believe to have fled after his near capture in Spain [ germ : Fuchs ] . In 2001 , a family lawyer file a request for a tax refund in Germany for Heim , claiming the human was living abroad at the fourth dimension [ source : Carroll , Goni ] . And his daughter from his first marriage lives just across the border from San Carlos de Bariloche , in Chile .
All of the evidence of Heim ’s continued universe is circumstantial , yet it ’s enough for those at the Simon Wiesenthal Center . They will continue to hunt Heim and other Nazis during Operation Last Chance , without commiseration and regardless of what eld these piece may now be . " The passing of time in no agency diminishes the crime commit , " Zuroff sound out [ source : Wiesenthal Center ] .
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