One of world's last Nazi War Criminals still alive and at large.

[Pekka]

Nah, I think it's important to hunt the most notorious guys down, even if they are 94 years old.

It just goes to show everyone, that if you do things like that, you will never be safe, not even if you are 100 years old, even then people will be after you.

[Dr Strangelove]

Just out of curiosity, is this guy know to be alive, or is Chile the last place he's been tracked to? Not many people live to be 94.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I think it's important to be fair on all sides of the coin.

Sure if you do bad things and there is no statute of limitations, you should be held accountable till 94, 104, even 114 if you live that long.

But you should still get a telegram from the Queen at 100. Only then will the message be clear that justice giveth AND taketh according to its measure.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST

Hm, considering the things he did it is strange that he was first caught, then released without being tried and afterwards was able to live 14 years in freedom without being prosecuted.

Not so strange. There were a lot of records to go through, some of the records were incomplete (Nazis started burning records to hide stuff), and the US was holding tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Nazis after the war. A few years after the war ended the orders came down to either charge or release these men and some guys who were guilty got let go simply because not enough manpower had been dedicated to reviewing the hordes of Nazi files. Later on they figured out so and so was a war criminal and it was to late.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by SlowwHand


Good thing it's primarily the German's. If it was the USA, can you imagine the outcry over not being able to find him, after letting him go? You don't have to imagine.

In the Josef Schwammberger case the West German Government spent 41 years and DM500,000 trying to track him down.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Just out of curiosity, is this guy know to be alive, or is Chile the last place he's been tracked to? Not many people live to be 94.

They claim he is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7506679.stm

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Do we have any from Uruguay?

No, they are more pro british.