Dr. Aribert Heim on the Worlds Top 10 most-wanted Nazis

by Barry Artiste | April 30, 2008 at 04:20 am | 504 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

Sixty -eight years later, the search for those who think the world forgets, certainly didn't think today they would make the top ten list most wanted.

Countries which seemed to offer safe haven to those who commit atrocities live in relative obscurity until caught, much to the suprise of it's citizens that a Monster lived amongst them.

Canada had it's share of Nazi war criminals, and only when caught decades later, were Canadians suprised to learn that kindly elderly gentlemen with the funny accent, tottering down the street in their community was the last person they thought had a past so horrible that if defied description.

As for Heim, South America seems like a safe bet.

BADEN-BADEN, Germany - Former SS doctor Aribert Heim tops a list of most-wanted suspected Nazi war criminals released Wednesday. He is a man so brutal that witnesses remember him as the worst they saw, though he was only at Mauthausen concentration camp for two months.

Heim would be 93 today, but "we have good reason to believe he is still alive," said Efraim Zuroff by telephone from Jerusalem. Zuroff is the top Nazi hunter for Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which published the list.

Still, despite a $485,000 reward for Heim's arrest posted by the centre along with Germany and Austria, he has managed to avoid capture for decades.

He is only one of hundreds of suspected Nazi war criminals that the Centre estimates are still at large.

After Heim on the Centre's most wanted list are: John Demjanjuk, fighting deportation from the U.S., which says he was a guard at several death and forced labour camps; Sandor Kepiro, a Hungarian accused of involvement in the wartime killings of than 1,000 civilians in Serbia; Milivoj Asner, a wartime Croatian police chief now living in Austria and suspected of an active role in deporting hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies to their death; and Soeren Kam, a former member of the SS wanted by Denmark for the assassination of a journalist in 1943. His extradition from Germany was blocked in 2007 by a Bavarian court that found insufficient evidence for murder charges.