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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 never punished for their acts. Mengele and ; criminals from There was a process of the biggest war cri- the Eastern Europe concentration camps. minals – Nurnberg Trials, which started in In 1999 Argentinean government confir- 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 . 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 people to murder 6 millions an Austrian Jewish Holocaust humans. « Capture the Survivor, Why then only 22 people most brilliant to open the Jewish Histori- were tried in Nurnberg, if cal Documentation Centre in thousands were connected to brains » , in 1947, where he crimes against humanity ? started gathering information Once the got defea- about fugitive war criminals ted, an intelligence race among countries aiming to bring them to trials. A member started to fetch the German technology. of (national intelligence agency Germans had raised the development of of ), together with another Mossad’s nuclear technology, genetics, biology, di- member, Rafi Eitan played a role in captu- sease control and weapon production to a ring , a head of

G IE E T CRI M I N ALI Té CRI M I N OLO 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 ’s “” 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. 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 , 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 ” 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

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