European “anti-Semites” are pushing a new line “more pernicious than Holocaust denial” to denigrate the alleged murder of six million Jews, warns veteran Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff.
Particularly in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, prominent politicians are trying to persuade the European Union’s parliament to formally equate Nazi and Communist crimes as equally horrendous genocides.
The not so subtle subtext of this proposal is to point to persecutions by Jewish Communists of the patriotic citizens of the three countries during the post-war Soviet domination of the Baltic and East European countries.
A major goal of this campaign is to minimize or rationalize the active collaboration with the Nazis by the police and militia of the Baltic states in the killing of Jews, Zuroff said.
Zuroff, who has been tracking down Nazis for 30 years as the point man for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, looked back last week on his triumphs and failures at a press conference and public talk at the Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, and in a new book, “Last Chance: One Man’s Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice” (2009, Palgrave MacMillan).
During his talk surveying the high and low points of his career, Zuroff, a native New Yorker who heads the Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office, opened with some “good news.”
During the last two months, four men on his list of the top 10 living men accused of Nazi war crimes have been extradited or readied for trial.
They are former concentration camp guard John (Ivan) Demjanjuk; Sandor Kepiro, a former Hungarian policeman accused of participation in the Novi Sad massacre of 4,000 Serbs, Jews and Romas; Charles Zentai , a former Hungarian soldier who allegedly beat an 18-year old Jew to death for not wearing a yellow star; and Heinrich Boere, a leader of a Dutch SS death squad.
Since 2001, there have been 82 successful prosecutions of war criminals, but 702 cases are still on file and time is running out, Zuroff, 61, said.
“I expect to continue my work for another three or four years, by which time the last of the war criminals will be gone,” he said.
During a separate news conference, Zuroff made public a Wiesenthal Center study ranking more than 30 countries on their willingness and efforts to go after surviving Nazi war criminals.
The best showing was by the United States, which has been responsible for 37 of the 82 successful legal actions worldwide against accused war criminals. Much of the credit goes to the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, whose director, Eli Rosenbaum, participated in the news conference.
In addition to the prosecutions, federal authorities have prevented more than 180 persons implicated in war crimes from entering the United States.
Rosenbaum said that “It’s precisely because we have been proactive and so tenacious in pursuing these cases over decades that you see fewer now.”
High marks for continued active prosecutions went to former Axis partners Germany and Italy. Poland has also been cooperative, but the kudos ended there.
Countries taking little or no action include Norway and Sweden, which cited their statues of limitation as barriers to continued prosecution.
Other countries remained largely passive, lacking either the political will or know-how to launch investigations, Zuroff said. These countries include Australia, Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuanian and the Ukraine.
Asked to name his most successful and most frustrating cases during his Nazi hunting career, Zuroff named Kepiro in the former category and Dr. Aribert Heim in the latter.
Kepiro, one of the alleged organizers of the Novi Sad massacre, was tracked down by Zuroff and his allies along a circuitous trail, running from Argentina to Scotland to Hungary.
Heim, though not as well known as his fellow physician and SS officer Dr. Josef Mengele, was just as sadistic in his medical experiments and was nicknamed “Dr. Death” by inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
Heim, an Austrian himself, was the top target of “Operation Last Chance,” with rewards totaling about $450,000 on his head and the target of police inquiries in 22 countries.
After an intensive four-year hunt for Heim by Zuroff, the New York Times reported that Heim had found ultimate refuge in Cairo, had converted to Islam, and died in 1992.
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Please delete my comment of April 19, 2013 (the bottom one) on this article.
As an ethnic minority in the Soviet Russian Empire Jews were disproportionately highly represented in communist parties, in Soviet repressive state security agencies and other anti-people communist power institutions. Therefore Jews actively participated in unsurpassed communist crimes in large numbers. Just explore the information on Lazar Kaganovich (butcher of Ukraine through artificial famine), Leon Trotsky (commander-in-chief of the Red Army), Henrikh Yagoda and many other communist Jews in power. A lot of ordinary Jews also actively supported communism.
Communist Jewish crimes must also be prosecuted and punished as Nazi crimes have been. Truth and real justice (punishment for all crimes) must prevail. The issue of financial and material compensations for communist crimes must also be resolved as Germany paid compensations for Nazi German crimes to many nations including Jews.
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Marxism is a Jewish invention ( Thus Karl Marx). Stalin was not a jew, however his brother in law was. Also (Lenin Trotskys) real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, obviously a Jew.
Jews are masters of what I like to call “disinformation” or master of deception. Sound familiar? Kind of like how the Bible says that Lucifer and all of his minions are masters of deception.
Also, Devil actually in Kois Greek means Deceiver.
Jews also invented Sudo Magic, later made its way into Africa and morphed into what we now know as Black Magic.
“Jews are masters of what I like to call “disinformation” or master of deception. Sound familiar? ”
Yeah, kinda like the practice the Catholic Cult engaged in to cover up the fact that they’ve been running an organized Child Molestation ring for over a century.
Those communists Jewish or not, killed many many Jews and non-Jews. The point is that it was not their nationality what made them kill others. It was their blindness conviction that they serve to the good of humanity.
Bout time. But let us not forget the millions Jewish men like Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin killed. Stalin, a Jew, killed at least 40 million conservatively.
If you are not blind and want to know about Stalin, go to Wikipedia. He was Georgian, not a Jew. I know that people say Obama is a Jew, too. It seems that anybody doing something terrible is automatically labeled as a Jew.