Washington – The Last Nazi Hunter

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    Federal prosecutor Eli M. Rosenbaum, 54, is on the trail of mass murderers, but you won’t see a story like his on CSI. There is no crime scene to study, the witnesses are long dead, and the evidence is scattered worldwide. The director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Rosenbaum is America’s chief Nazi hunter. Sixty-five years after the end of the Second World War, he is still tracking down its last surviving criminals.

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    With time finishing the job of the Nuremberg trials—the last judgment on Hitler’s henchmen—t he U.S. government plans to merge the OSI into a broader war-crimes effort. Yet Rosenbaum won’t rest until the last Nazi is brought to justice.

    or him, peeling back the past and reviving horrific memories in Holocaust survivors has been a heartbreaking process. “I can always tell when the next question will lead them to start crying,” he says. Why does he find it so important to spend government resources going after elderly enemies who surely represent no further threat? “American families sacrificed 200,000 sons and daughters to end Nazi tyranny,” Rosenbaum says. He learned about the horrors of the concentration camps from his G.I. father, who reported on Dachau after its liberation. The young Eli once asked, “What did you see?” The elder Rosenbaum didn’t answer, but his eyes—a quarter-century after he entered the place where more than 30,000 prisoners were murdered—welled with tears.

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