The Ratline That Saved Nazi Killers | Nazi Hunters

May 16, 2025 | Two Nazi war criminals vanish into the Andes after WWII—until a hidden trail, forged with help from the Catholic Church, leads journalists straight to them. This is the shocking story of the Ratline and the manhunt that changed history.
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Argentina's Milei to Declassify Documents on Nazi War Criminals Who Fled to Argentina | DW News

March 27, 2025 | Argentina's President Javier Milei says he is declassifying government documents on how Nazi war criminals escaped Europe and resettled in South America following World War Two. Historians believe as many as 5,000 Nazis evaded arrest in Argentina – sometimes with the help of the authorities.

The most prominent of them was Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann was one of the architects of the Holocaust and escaped to Argentina using false papers. Israeli agents captured him in Buenos Aires and took him to Jerusalem to stand trial. He found guilty and sentenced to death.

Nazi War Criminal Klaas Carel Faber Dies in Germany
BBC: Dutch-born Nazi war criminal Klaas Carel Faber has died in Germany at the age of 90.

Faber, who served in an SS unit, was second on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre list of most-wanted Nazi criminals.

He was sentenced to death in 1947 for the deaths of 22 Jews at the Westerbork transit camp [D]. His term was later commuted to life.

Faber escaped in 1952, was given German citizenship and died in Bavaria, where he had been living.

A hospital official in the southern Bavarian town of Ingolstadt confirmed that he had died on Thursday, according to Associated Press. He reportedly died of kidney failure.

Faber had lived as a free man in Germany despite several attempts to try or extradite him.

Germany refused his extradition on the grounds that he was a German citizen. » | Saturday, May 26, 2012

Nazi War Criminal John Demjanjuk Dies Aged 91
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: John Demjanjuk, the Nazi prison camp guard convicted of the murder of 27,900 Jews, has died in a German nursing home.

The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was found guilty of accessory to murder in May 2011, in what was billed as Germany's last major war crimes trial.

He was a guard at the Sobobor [sic] camp in Poland where more than 27,000 people died during World War II.

The Munich trial, which lasted 18 months, was not the first for the burly and bespectacled Demjanjuk who emigrated to the United States after the war.

In 1986, he stood trial in Jerusalem accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," an infamous Ukrainian guard at another death camp, Treblinka.

Even in Treblinka, where beatings, gassing and torture were part of the daily routine, "Ivan the Terrible" stood out for his perverse sadism. » | Saturday, March 17, 2012

97 Year-old Tried for Nazi War Crimes
A 97-year old Hungarian has gone on trial in what is likely to be one of the world's last Nazi war crimes trials

Nazi Executioner Protected from Jail by Germany
THE TELEGRAPH: The fifth most wanted Nazi fugitive is living out his old age safe within Germany, despite being wanted in Britain and the Netherlands on war crimes charges.

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (L) standing in a convertible Mercedes reviews SA and SS troops and wellwishers somewhere in Germany, 1937. Photo: The Telegraph
Klaas Faber, now 88, volunteered for Adolf Hitler's notorious SS during the Second World War and worked as part of a Gestapo death squad.

Despite being sentenced to death for his crimes in 1947, Faber is immune from prosecution because he escaped from prison in the Netherlands in 1952 and fled back to Germany.

Demands by Britain and other nations to hand him over have since been rejected by Germany, according to the Sun.

Faber, who was born in the Netherlands, is immune from extradition because he was granted German citizenship by Hitler.

Local privacy laws also mean that Germans cannot be told that Faber is a war criminal. >>> | Monday, July 05, 2010

Wanted: The Last Nazis
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THE INDEPENDENT: At first glance, the mugshots appear to be a gallery of roguish grandfathers, but the octo- and nonagenarians are the 10 most-wanted fugitives of one of the most heinous regimes the world has ever seen. They are the last remaining Nazis, and the codename of the hunt to find them – Operation Last Chance – says it all

More than 60 years after the Nuremberg trials put the first of Hitler's henchmen in the dock, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre yesterday released its most wanted list of the remaining Nazi war criminals. The battle to bring them to justice is complicated by a mix of political apathy, legal wrangling, legendary powers of evasion and what Nazi-hunters term "misplaced sympathy" for the craggy-faced men in their twilight years.

"They are old, and the natural tendency is to be sympathetic toward people when they reach a certain age, but the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of the perpetrators," said Efraim Zuroff, the Jerusalem-based director of the Wiesenthal Centre. "If we were to put a chronological limit on prosecution, we would basically be saying you can get away with genocide." Wanted: The Last Nazis: They are accused of some of the worst war crimes of the 20th century. Now a final bid has been launched to bring them to justice before they die >>> By Claire Soares | May 1, 2008

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We Must Never Forget the Evil Inspired by Hitler's Regime >>> By Rupert Cornwell | May 1, 2008

BBC:
Schindler List Survivor Recalls Saviour: As Israel marks its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of those whose lives were saved by German businessman Oskar Schindler has spoken of his lasting gratitude >>> | May 1, 2008

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