Posted on 07/09/2008 12:35:58 PM PDT by BGHater
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has received leads that "Dr. Death" Aribert Heim, the center's most wanted Nazi war criminal, is alive and living in Patagonia, Chile. The center's chief Nazi hunter is due to travel there this week.
The hunt for "Dr. Death" Aribert Heim, the Nazi war criminal wanted for murdering hundreds of prisoners in concentration camps during World War II, has intensified after the Simon Wiesenthal's chief Nazi hunter received fresh leads during a visit to South America.
Efraim Zuroff, a Holocaust historian who heads the center's Jerusalem office, told media that he had received information that Heim was in the Patagonia region of southern Chile, where his daughter lives.
"In the last few days we've received information from two different sources, both relating to Chile, which we think have very good potential," said Efraim Zuroff, according to the Reuters news agency.
Heim, who would be 94 if he's still alive, was an Austrian medical doctor in the SS. He is alleged to have murdered hundreds of concentration camp inmates with experiments that included injecting poison into their hearts. He tops the Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals.
Heim decorated his office with human body parts during World War II, even using the skull of a man he decapitated as a paperweight.
Zuroff is currently in South America to promote "Operation Last Chance," the Wiesenthal Center's initiative to obtain information that could lead to the prosecution and punishment of the last surviving Nazi war criminals.
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I’m waiting for the “why can’t they just leave him alone, he’s an old man” crowd to show up.
Why can’t they just leave him alone, he’s an old man...
There's a crowd like that on FreeRepublic? I'd be inclined to doubt that.
We have the occasional troll...
Good huntin’, Zuroff. Catch the old Nazi sonovabitch.
I’d be surprised I guess. I’d think most freepers would want him caught, tried, convicted and hung. Me included.
I sometimes come out that way with low level flunkies who seem to have led reformed lives. But what this guy did is beyond the pale. I hope they get him.
"Efraim Zuroff, a Holocaust historian who heads the center's Jerusalem office, told media that he had received information that Heim was in the Patagonia region of southern Chile, where his daughter lives.
"In the last few days we've received information from two different sources, both relating to Chile, which we think have very good potential," said Efraim Zuroff, according to the Reuters news agency.
Why would Efraim Zuroff be talking about fresh hot tips on fugitives in the press, as that would tip off any target they were hunting for?
So -- is Efraim Zuroff after Nazis, or after publicity? Or after funding so that they can keep the prospect alive that there are still Nazis to hunt, and therefore his funding sources should keep giving?
I thought Dr. Jack Kervorkian was “Dr. Death?”
I bet he is upset there are cheap imitators infringing on his well-earned name and reputation.
Well there are only so many years to keep up this gig. You would think it would not be wise to tip off your suspect.
Publicity leads to more tips?
According to a former camp inmate, an 18-year-old Jewish youth came to the clinic with a foot inflammation. He was asked by Heim why it was that he was so fit. He replied that he had been a soccer player and swimmer. Instead of treating the prisoner's foot, Heim placed him under anesthesia, cut him open, took apart one kidney, removed the second and castrated him. The boy was decapitated and Heim boiled the flesh off the skull so it could be displayed, the former inmate said.
I read that over half of the deaths of children under one year of age in The Netherlands are from ‘involuntary euthanasia’ by doctors. Maybe he’s taken up residence there.
I think the risk of a 94 year old bolting would be pretty low, so there’s not much downside, and the publicity might turn up some fresh leads.
One reason? To spook the game out of hiding.
Catch him and drop him from the top of the Torres del Paine. (two large, side by side mountains in Patagonia)
I doubt it’s for fundraising, many of their leads are generated as a result of publicity. In fact I believe this information was developed as a result of their publicity campaign a few months ago.
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Pat Buchanan will be making a tearful plea for clemency in this case on cable TV tonight.
The gig, education? I think the Weisenthal Center will keep that up for awhile. As to tipping off "your suspect", there is no identified suspect, only a region near a family member where he's thought to be living. Thus the need for further information.
Seems to me these guys are going to be out of business very soon. I wonder what they’ll do when there’s no more Nazis left?
The gig, education? I think the Weisenthal Center will keep that up for awhile. Catching barbarians like the doctor, I suppose that gig will end soon. As to tipping off "your suspect", there is no identified suspect, only a region near a family member where he's thought to be living. Thus the need for further information.
The suspect would know who he is, so if they point out a region they think he might be in, it would give him the opportunity to hide or move. At least in my view. Of course if the guy is so old and does not even care about running, this could help track him down.
“Heim, who would be 94 if he’s still alive...”
Good Lord, it’s been 65 years. Let’s move on down the road. There are plenty of active monsters we should be hunting down, like Mugabe and H. Chavez.
Besides, the Lord will mete out eternal justice on this man, and there’s nowhere he can run from that.
You would not say that if your family members were murdered by this man.Go after all of them.
not me. Just shoot him.
Maybe he's hoping a private citizen will find him and torture him before killing him. Then there will be no worries about prisoners rights, blah blah.
Suppose you had a guy you thought was him (same age, general description, similar facial bone structure, German accent, etc.)
Leak the information that you've got a solid lead on the war criminal, and if he twitches, he's worth a closer look.
This guy:
CA: Body found in Oakland Hills is Nina Reiser
Tipped his hand when a fellow inmate noticed that he rushed to the TV when a report of a body being discovered in the Oakland Hills came on. The inmate thought it was distinctly odd that he was so visibly relieved when they identified the body as that of a black male...
Well, maybe you would feel differently if it was one of your relatives who had his kidney and testicles cut off and then got decapitated. Sorry, in my worldview there is always time to hunt down one more monster in human form.
Maybe they will start hunting down islamist nazi clones. That would be good for a start.
Mengele was called the “Angel of Death”.
I’m pleased to hear that. I was pretty taken aback, previously, when the comment was made and seconded.
Doubt it all you want. It happened.
Thanks for the clarification.
And how many others did he repeat the experiment, without anesthesia?
It's a tactical decision. You're, the suspect is being warned, which presents the risk of flight. Eichmans presence wouldn't have been "announced". On the other hand, they don't know where he is or his identity, publicity helps in that regard, and once a couple investigators arrive in a remote area in Chile, he'll be warned anyway. Hope they get him, I just don't have the information or knowledge to criticize their tactics one way or another, other than I don't think fund raising is a consideration.
There's no consensus in the internation community that anything should be done about Mugabe or Chavez. It may never develop, but if it should in a couple decades, I presume your arguement is that they should be left alone.
in 1958 Heim apparently felt comfortable enough to buy a 42-unit apartment block in Berlin, listing it in his own name with a home address in Mannheim, according to purchase documents obtained by the AP. He then moved to the nearby resort town of Baden-Baden and opened a gynecological clinic — also under his own name, Heister said. In 1961, German authorities were alerted and began an investigation, but when they finally went to arrest him in September 1962, they just missed him — he apparently had been tipped off. Heim continued to live off the rents collected from the Berlin apartments until 1979 when the building was confiscated by German authorities.
This man was an inhuman monster who performed unspeakable atrocities on innocent victims, yet the authorities clearly showed no interest in bringing him to justice. Grrrr.
Yes, very little interest.
Germany is currently trying Heinrich Boere, an SS man who killed a number of Dutch civilians, and was tried in absentia, his choice not to show up, and sentenced to death in the late 1940s. Dutch pop, but a German mom, thus a German citizen, and Germany doesn't deport their citizens. Even German war criminals in the post war period. And, well he killed Dutch folk in their country, so no crime in Germany. He lived a free life in Germany, till now.
I don’t think evil personified has an expiration date.
Even if he’s caught moments before his last breath, he’s caught.
I say - hang ‘em.
If you spot this Nazi butcher, don't hesitate.
Perhaps shift their attention to Islamofascist killers, many of whom are still at large.
Because I want to chop him in pieces while he is alive.
“Well there are only so many years to keep up this gig. You would think it would not be wise to tip off your suspect.”
Ah, but they rabbit and are generally easier to catch on the move than if they went to ground.
Plus, imposing the anticipation of being caught is have the fun. “I’m coming to get you . . . “
That makes you a bad, evil person.
Need anyone to hand you the tools?
See, if we can find them, we can tie them up and pour gasoline on them — for the sake of science.
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