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This is a list of the last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes, based on wanted lists published by Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Beginning in 2002, Zuroff produced an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which from 2004 to 2018 included a list of the ...
Apr 30, 2008 · Jerusalem - The Simon Wiesenthal Center today released the primary findings of its seventh Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, which covers the period from April 1, 2007 until March 31, 2008 and awarded grades ranging from A (highest) to F to evaluate the efforts and results achieved by ...
Apr 13, 2010 · Three New Names on Center’s “Most Wanted” List . Jerusalem - The Simon Wiesenthal Center today released the initial findings of its ninth Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, which covers the period from April 1, 2009 until March 31, 2010 and awarded grades ranging from A (highest) to ...
- John Demjanjuk
- Laszlo Csatary
- Hans Lipschis
- Vladimir Katriuk
- Oskar Groenig
- Gerhard Sommer
- Alfred Stark
- Johann Robert Riss
- Algimantas Dailide
- Adolf Hitler
Born in Ukraine, Demjanjuk immigrated to the United States after World War II and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in the 1950s, working for many years in a Ford automotive plant in Ohio. In 2011, after lengthy court proceedings in the United States, Israel and Germany, a German court convicted him of being an accessory to more than 28,000 counts ...
As a Hungarian police officer in the city of Kosice (now in Slovakia, but then occupied by Hungary) in 1944, Csatary allegedly organized the deportations of more than 15,000 Jews to Auschwitz. A Czechoslovak court convicted Csatary in absentia and sentenced him to death in 1948. He fled to Canada, where he worked as an art dealer until 1997. After ...
Following the precedent set by Demjanjuk’s 2011 conviction, German authorities launched a renewed campaign to bring in some 50 suspected former guards at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where some 1.5 million people were murdered between 1941 and 1945. The first to face charges, in 2013, was 93-year-old Hans Lipschis, who lived in Chicago for nearly three deca...
A platoon commander in a Ukrainian battalion of the SS, the elite Nazi stormtroopers, from 1942-44, Katriuk had immigrated to Canada by the 1950s. In 1999, a Canadian court found that he had lied about his past to enter the country, but the Canadian government later decided not to strip him of his citizenship. After a new study surfaced alleging th...
After former SS-Unterscharführer (junior squad leader) Oskar Groenig was released from a British prison following World War II, he left the military and began a normal middle-class life working at a glass-making factory in Lower Saxony, Germany. Only decades later, after Groenig heard stories about people denying the Holocaust ever happened, did he...
Of the ever-shrinking number of former Nazis still alive to be prosecuted, Gerhard Sommer currently heads the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of the “most wanted.” In 1944, Sommer was a soldier in the 16th SS Panzer Division when he allegedly helped massacre 560 civilians, including 119 children, in the Tuscan town of Sant-Anna di Stazzema. Though a...
A former corporal of the Gebirsgjäger division, the 92-year-old Stark stands accused of ordering the execution of 117 Italian prisoners of war on the Italian-occupied island of Kefalonia, Greece in 1943. Germany and Italy broke their alliance in September of that year, and in the aftermath of the break, the Germans killed nearly 9,500 officers of t...
After resistance fighters shot two German soldiers, Nazi troops reportedly retaliated by massacring some 184 civilians (including 27 children and 63 women) in the Tuscan town of Padule di Fucecchio in 1944. A year later, British sergeant Charles Edmonson took statements about the massacre from survivors, in the hopes of bringing those responsible t...
As an officer in the Lithuanian Security Police, sponsored by the Nazis, Dailide allegedly arrested 12 Jews who were attempting to escape Vilna, a Jewish ghetto in the city of Vilnius, in the early 1940s. He is believed to have handed them over to the Nazis, who presumably executed them. Dailide immigrated to the United States after the war and was...
Okay, so maybe Hitler doesn’t exactly belong in the same category with these other “most wanted” Nazis—but there are still some people who believe the Nazi leader did not, in fact, commit suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945. Instead, as the leading theory goes, he escaped to South America and lived out the rest of his life unpunished for his u...
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- Gerhard Sommer – Germany (Italy) – massacre of hundreds of civilians in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
- Vladimir Katriuk – Canada (Belarus) – murder of Jews and non-Jews in various locations.
- Alfred Stark – Germany (Greece) – murder of Italian prisoners of war in Kefalonia.
- Johann Robert Riss – Germany (Italy) – murder of civilians near Padule di Fucecchio.
High on Wiesenthal's most-wanted list was Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps in Poland. After three years of patient undercover work by Wiesenthal, Stangl was located in Brazil and remanded to West Germany for imprisonment in 1967.
May 12, 2011 · 12 May 2011. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which investigates Nazi war criminals, has published its latest list of its most wanted surviving suspects. Those on the list are "wanted"...
