Los Angeles, CA – Wiesenthal Center Slams German Judge for Obstructing Hunt of Nazi Doctor

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    Los Angeles, CA – The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized German judicial authorities in Baden-Baden, accusing them of obstructing the hunt for former Nazi SS doctor Aribert Heim.

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    Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at the Jewish human rights organization, said the judge in charge of the case had disallowed German police requests on several occasions for telephone taps of Heim’s relatives and an old friend who had been in contact with the fugitive. “We only recently learned of the extent of the obstructionism,” Zuroff said, saying such taps in other cases were “routinely approved.”

    In the case of the old friend from school, the judge decided that the information about his contact with Heim was too old to warrant a telephone tap. The friend, a fellow doctor living in Vienna, Austria, told authorities in 1998 that he had received a letter from Heim in the early 1980s.

    Zuroff said “We hope to bring to the attention of the authorities that there are legal obstacles which are preventing the proper investigation of the case, and preventing steps which we feel would contribute significantly to finding doctor Heim,” he said.

    Heim was known for his sadism as a doctor at the Nazi’s Mauthausen concentration camp. He was able to flee before authorities came to arrest him in the southern town of Baden-Baden in 1962.

    Heim tops the Wiesenthal Center’s list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    he should go to prison for his war crimes

    Matzahlocal101
    Matzahlocal101
    15 years ago

    I’m sure if you have a good look at the judges that are 80+ years old, you’ll find a few familiar faces among them.