Costa Rica – Estonian Businessman and One of 10 Most Wanted Nazi Criminals Died

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    One of the most wanted Nazis diesCosta Rica – Harry Mannil, 89, a Estonian-born businessman, arts collector, economic adviser, and suspected war criminal died in Costa Rica.

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    For years Mannil was listed as the 10th most wanted Nazi criminal by the influential Simon Wiesenthal Center. The accusations stir from his work for the Nazi-organized political police in 1941, when he allegedly participated in persecutions and executions of at least a hundred local Jews and communists.

    Due to the accusations he was expelled from Switzerland, where he had fled after the war. He was also barred from entering Britain and the United States.

    However in Estonia Mannil was viewed as a respectable businessman and philanthropist. Most of his life was spent in Latin America, where he had a successful career. He was among the founders of the leading Venezuelan holding ACO Group and held positions on the management boards of several other big companies.

    He was also an art collector and owner of one of the world’s largest private collections of pre-Columbian art.

    In 1990, Mannil returned to his native Estonia and worked as an economic advisor to two governments of the newly independent nation. He also had close personal relations with the Estonian elite and was godfather to the daughter of the former Prime Minister and now Mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar.

    In 2005, an Estonian investigation found no evidence of Mannil’s alleged crimes during World War II. The Wiesenthal Center called the results “a pathetic whitewash for political reasons” and said the Estonian prosecutor’s accusation that the center had purposely targeted Mannil was “the best proof that Estonia lacked the political will to prosecute a prominent Estonian.”

    Harry Mannil’s ashes will be buried at his ranch in the mountains of Costa Rica.


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    Liepa
    Liepa
    14 years ago

    His body might have been turned into ashes but it wont help him any, he’ll now get all the punishments he truly deserves. He’s in the clutches of ‘Bais din shel Mallah’.

    anonymous
    anonymous
    14 years ago

    All three Baltic states Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia had SS divisions which exceeded the German SS in cruelty and barbarism

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Good Riddance to him, Mr. Nazi. What a waste of a brain.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    all the keverorim chevra who do their annual kever hop should stop at his on their way home to pish on

    anonymous
    anonymous
    14 years ago

    Unfortunately I encountered these murderers in a concentration camp in Poland

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    may he rot in hell

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    may he rot in hell

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    This disgusting worm will burn in Gehenom for eternity. May his ashes rot in the earth in eternal discomfort and shame.

    Esther
    Esther
    14 years ago

    Just sorry he didn’t suffer like all the millions of Jews in the Holocaust!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I’d admire the המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים‎, why they let him die on peace? in Golda’s time they chased them as a rabbits.
    The most difficult thing in live is to forgive, but I also believe in divine justice.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Why couldn’t the US apply pressure to have him brought to trial?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    he’s dead now why all this uproar now,why not when he was alive?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Maybe the people that are doing the same thing to the paletinians as he did to the jews will one day get justice too

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    what about thousands of jewish bolshevik comissars who killed and starved millions in the 20’s and 30’s. May they fry in Gehenom as well.