it has been almost 70 years since the end of the second World War (WW ii), but for some people who still remain alive, it seems like yesterday. They remember their fami- Until death do us apart Dossier spécial Dossier But before all, those survivors remember smooth relocation in the case of defeat. In faces of their torturers and live with the the Argentinean migration building Goñi consciousness that the war criminals were found written proofs of arrival of Josef Té never punished for their acts. Mengele and Erich Priebke; criminals from There was a process of the biggest war cri- the Eastern Europe concentration camps. ali minals – Nurnberg Trials, which started in In 1999 Argentinean government confir- N i 1945, where 22 men have been sentenced, med that at least 180 Nazis, facing criminal 12 of them received a death sentence. They charges in Europe moved to Argentina. M were executed in 1946, but it The fact of being unable to Par Justyna Wilaszek Lalos takes far much more than 22 reach the known Nazis pushed cri people to murder 6 millions an Austrian Jewish Holocaust T humans. « Capture the Survivor, Simon Wiesenthal e Why then only 22 people most brilliant to open the Jewish Histori- were tried in Nurnberg, if cal Documentation Centre in ie thousands were connected to brains » Linz, Austria in 1947, where he G crimes against humanity ? started gathering information Once the Germany got defea- about fugitive war criminals OLO ted, an intelligence race among countries aiming to bring them to trials. A member N started to fetch the German technology. of Mossad (national intelligence agency i Germans had raised the development of of Israel), together with another Mossad’s M nuclear technology, genetics, biology, di- member, Rafi Eitan played a role in captu- sease control and weapon production to a ring Adolf Eichmann, a head of Gestapo cri very high level. In USA a top secret opera- Affairs responsible for transport of Jews tion – “Paper Clip” – helped 126 German from all over Europe to death camps exe- rocket scientists to escape the post-war cuting Nazi Germany’s “Final Solution” Europe and contribute to the technologi- program. Eichmann was traced in Argen- cal progress made in the middle of the 20th tina, where he lived since 1950 as Ricardo century, including the US space program. Klement, abducted by Mossad and taken to Russia ran its top-secret operation – “Alsos” Israel. During his trial he was charged with – and UK – “Operation Backfire” – serving crimes against Jewish people, against hu- the same purpose: capture the most bril- manity and war crimes. Sentenced to death liant brains of the defeated Germany. was hung in 1962. After years of denial, even CIA admitted Simon Wiesenthal was known as one of the that it was involved in helping Klaus Bar- most persistent Nazi hunters, and his work bie, “the butcher of Lyon”, one of the worst was pursued by dr. Efraim Zuroff after WW II criminals to escape from Europe, Wiesenthal’s death in 2005. Number one Bio first employing him as an US army agent, on his list is Aribert Heim, better known and then smuggling him through the “rat as Doctor Death, who carried out horrific Holds a master degree from the University lines” to save heavens Argentina and finally experiments with lethal injections on WW of economics in cracow and a post-grade Bolivia. II concentration camps prisoners. master in international Management from Many of the WW II criminals escaped to Some people say that Doctor Death became Hec lausanne. after 6 years on the posi- tion of executive director in the Federation Argentina, where they got support from the obsession of dr. Zuroff, as he was pro- of european National collection associa- Juan Peron – a partisan of a Nazi move- claimed dead few times and some proofs tions she started to develop her own dress ment. A five year investigation by Uki Goñi, confirmed it. However, being taken under e-shop and brand altaïa, serving european the author of “The real Odessa” proved the magnifying glass the family of Doctor market. in parallel she works as an inde- links between governments of Peron and Death doesn’t behave in a rational way. If pendent consultant for the iFrc and deve- Swiss and Vatican authorities helping Na- Doctor Death was dead, his family would lops the first health Mooc in cooperation zis to flee. Recently declassified files from have right to inherit his bank account with Google. Brazil and Chile show that Argentinean content in Berlin, Germany, which contains government sold 10,000 blank Argentinean around 1 Mio €, but the deposit hasn’t been passports to ODESSA (Organisation Der claimed till now. Ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen), an organisa- In 2001, a claim for refund in Germany tion of former SS members, to enable their deposed by a lawyer of Doctor Death was 36 lies exterminated, they remember their fellows being taken from the barrack and never see them again. « Facts and proofs that were impossible to obtain in the Until death do us apart past » Dossier spécial Dossier punish war criminals shouldn’t stop. Eli M. Rosenbaum, another Nazi hun- ter and director of the Office of Spe- cial Investigations at the US Depart- ment of Justice, managed to extend the law to cover modern war crimi- erre nals, opening the door for investi- gation of conflicts such as those in GU Bosnia or Rwanda, or potentially any de crime against humanity. His investigators, experienced in tracing Nazis for over 30 years apply es their knowledge to the modern war M crimes. In the time of a digital era new crime hunting techniques bring cri facts and proofs that were impossible to obtain in the past. Investigations are not bounded to one place in the globe, but focus on a broader set of hints coming from multiple sources worldwide. Cellular phones, tracing connections and digital bank ac- counts provide evidence that was not available even 15 years earlier. Today, war crime hunters can use modern criminal science and techniques, and rely on living people who expe- ©Archives rienced the atrocities (vs. relying on memories or archives). traced, on the grounds that his client lives failing to submit pertinent data. It is only Prompt pursuit of the war crimi- abroad. A surveillance of the phone line of recently that the countries’ governments nals is essential, only in that way the the wife in Germany shows that she calls decided to help the hunters. would-be perpetrators will unders- both sons to remind about their father’s bir- Klaus Barbie was located in Bolivia alrea- tand that if they go down that path, thday. His daughter from the first relation- dy in 1971 by the French Nazi hunters, they will be pursued the rest of their ship lives in Chile, close to the border with the Klarsfelds. Protected by the Bolivian lives, in very remote places, and until Argentina, and her mother, never married government for 12 years, Barbie got extra- “death do us apart”. to Doctor Death, visited Chile 18 times in dited to France by a newly elected govern- 13 years... The family claims that he died of ment only in 1983, and in 1987 sentenced to cancer in Argentina in 1993, but many facts life prison, where he died four years later. indicate that he might live in the region In 2002 dr. Zuroff launched “Operation Last of Barriloche, Argentina, the most “Euro- Chance”, with the slogan “It is late, but not pean” city in the South America, where too late”. The reward was raised from US$ another German Nazi, Erich Priebke was 10,000 to US$ 25,000 for each tip leading to captured in 1994. conviction. Searched WW II criminals are If the person is assumed to be in such area, very old men and in two or three years from Sources: why a thorough search is not undertaken in today, the Nazi hunt will finish; statistically Nbcnews.com the region? all Nazi criminals will be dead. Dailycaller.com It is in the hands of a country government One may always ask: Does it makes sense to TheDailyBeast.com NYTimes.com to take the action. Many of the governments hunt +90 years old criminals with Alzhei- Jewishvirtuallibrary.org were reluctant for a very long time; in the mer or elderly diseases, who instead of rai- TheGuardian.com annual report on the status of Nazi crimi- sing fear and hate, would raise pity during JPost.com Listverse.com nals of the Simon Wiesenthal Center from the trial? The answer is YES. As long as the CIA.gov 2013 dr. Zuroff lists all the countries still victims of the war crimes live, the efforts to Wiesenthal.com 37.