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Who are the world’s most wanted Nazis?

Twelve men are on the list of the most wanted Nazi-era war criminals, compiled by a Jewish human rights organisation. The hunt continues after a Nazi death camp guard was convicted this week.

13/05/11 3,296 Views 13 Comments
John Denjanjuk was convicted yesterday of accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp
John Denjanjuk was convicted yesterday of accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp
Image: Matthias Schrader/AP/Press Association Images

THE CONVICTION OF Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk could set a precedent for bringing other war criminals to justice, but who are the most wanted Nazis?

Demjanjuk has been sentenced to five years in prison after a landmark ruling in Germany which saw him prosecuted not for any specific crime, but based on the theory that if he was in the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, then he was a participant in the killing of people there.

For Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre – an international Jewish human rights organisation – the hunt goes on. Demjanjuk has now been struck off the number one spot on the list of the world’s most wanted Nazis, but who else is being pursued? The Wiesenthal Centre this month updated its ‘most wanted’ list.

Most wanted Nazis

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  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Alois Brunner

    Alois Brunner is the Weisenthal Centre's most wanted Nazi. He was once top aide to Adolf Eichman and allegedly helped to organize the deportation of almost 130,000 Jews from Austria, Greece, France and Slovakia to Nazi death camps. The Wiesenthal Centre says that Brunner may be deceased, as he was last seen in 2001. He took refuge in Syria after World War II.

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Aribert Heim

    Aribert Heim was a doctor in Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps. He's wanted in Germany and Austria for the alleged murder of dozens of camp inmates by lethal injection in Mauthausen. He disappeared in 1962 prior to a planned prosecution, but it's believed he may have died in Cairo in 1992. However his body was never found, nor his death confirmed so he remains at large.

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Sandor Kepiro

    97-year-old Hungarian Sandor Kepiro is currently standing trial in Budapest. He's accused of participating in organising the mass murder of at least 1,200 civilians in Serbia in 1942. He was convicted in Hungary in 1944 but was never sentenced. He now claims that he is "innocent and here on trumped-up charges".

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Milivoj Asner

    Milivoj Asner is a former Croatian police chief who it's alleged had an active role in the persecution and deportation of hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Roma Gypsies. His extradition from Austria for trial in Croatia has been refused on medical grounds and he's been declared medically unfit to stand trial.

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Klaus Carl Faber

    Klaus Karl Faber is a German of Dutch origin who worked for the SS. He was sentenced to death in 1947 in the Netherlands for killing 22 Jews. He escaped to Germany, which has refused his extradition to the Netherlands for life imprisonment. He was discovered by an Austrian student researching the massacre and was charged in 2009 by a German court

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Gerhard Sommer

    Pictured is a memorial in the Italian village of Sant' Anna di Stazzema, where Gerhard Sommer is accused of participating in the massacre of 560 people in 1942. Sommer was convicted of 'murder with special cruelty' in absentia by a military court in Italy.

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Adam Nargorny

    Pictured is Treblinka death camp in Poland. German Adam Nagorny is under investigation in Munich over allegations that he participated in executions in the camp.

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Karoly (Charles) Zentai

    Charles Zentai is a former Hungarian soldier who is alleged to have taken part in manhunts, persecution and murder of Jews in Budapest in 1944. Zentai was found in Australia in 2004. His extradition to Hungary was denied by Australia but this is awaiting appeal.

  • The worlds most wanted Nazis - Soeren Kam

    Soeren Kam is alleged to have taken part in the murder of Danish anti-Naze newspaper editor Carl Hendrik Clemmenson. Germany refused Kam's extradition to Denmark in 1999 amd again in 2007.

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Ivan (John) Kalymon

    John Klaymon served in the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police from 1941 to 1944 in German Occupied Poland. He's alleged to have participated in the murder of Jews. Kalymon was ordered deported from the US earlier this year to any country willing to admit him.

  • The worlds most wanted Nazis - Algimantas Dailide

    Jews march during a Holocaust memorial service in Vilnius, Lithuania, where Algimantas Dailide was convicted of aiding in the execution of 12 Jews. He served with the Lithuanian Security Police. Dailide was extradited by the US to Germany in 2004, but he didn't serve his five year sentence because of ill-health.

  • The world's most wanted Nazis - Mikhail Gorshkow

    A Holocaust memorial in Estonia, where Mikhail Gorshkow is suspected of the murder of Jews. He worked as an interpreter in the Gestapo. He fled from the US to Estonia, where he is under investigation. No legal action has been taken against him.
  • Alois Brunner is the Weisenthal Centre's most wanted Nazi. He was once top aide to Adolf Eichman and allegedly helped to organize the deportation of almost 130,000 Jews from Austria, Greece, France and Slovakia to Nazi death camps. The Wiesenthal Centre says that Brunner may be deceased, as he was last seen in 2001. He took refuge in Syria after World War II.
  • Aribert Heim was a doctor in Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps. He's wanted in Germany and Austria for the alleged murder of dozens of camp inmates by lethal injection in Mauthausen. He disappeared in 1962 prior to a planned prosecution, but it's believed he may have died in Cairo in 1992. However his body was never found, nor his death confirmed so he remains at large.
  • 97-year-old Hungarian Sandor Kepiro is currently standing trial in Budapest. He's accused of participating in organising the mass murder of at least 1,200 civilians in Serbia in 1942. He was convicted in Hungary in 1944 but was never sentenced. He now claims that he is
  • Milivoj Asner is a former Croatian police chief who it's alleged had an active role in the persecution and deportation of hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Roma Gypsies. His extradition from Austria for trial in Croatia has been refused on medical grounds and he's been declared medically unfit to stand trial.
  • Klaus Karl Faber is a German of Dutch origin who worked for the SS. He was sentenced to death in 1947 in the Netherlands for killing 22 Jews. He escaped to Germany, which has refused his extradition to the Netherlands for life imprisonment. He was discovered by an Austrian student researching the massacre and was charged in 2009 by a German court
  • Pictured is a memorial in the Italian village of Sant' Anna di Stazzema, where Gerhard Sommer is accused of participating in the massacre of 560 people in 1942. Sommer was convicted of 'murder with special cruelty' in absentia by a military court in Italy.
  • Pictured is Treblinka death camp in Poland. German Adam Nagorny is under investigation in Munich over allegations that he participated in executions in the camp.
  • Charles Zentai is a former Hungarian soldier who is alleged to have taken part in manhunts, persecution and murder of Jews in Budapest in 1944. Zentai was found in Australia in 2004. His extradition to Hungary was denied by Australia but this is awaiting appeal.
  • Soeren Kam is alleged to have taken part in the murder of Danish anti-Naze newspaper editor Carl Hendrik Clemmenson. Germany refused Kam's extradition to Denmark in 1999 amd again in 2007.
  • John Klaymon served in the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police from 1941 to 1944 in German Occupied Poland. He's alleged to have participated in the murder of Jews. Kalymon was ordered deported from the US earlier this year to any country willing to admit him.
  • Jews march during a Holocaust memorial service in Vilnius, Lithuania, where Algimantas Dailide was convicted of aiding in the execution of 12 Jews. He served with the Lithuanian Security Police. Dailide was extradited by the US to Germany in 2004, but he didn't serve his five year sentence because of ill-health.
  • A Holocaust memorial in Estonia, where Mikhail Gorshkow is suspected of the murder of Jews. He worked as an interpreter in the Gestapo. He fled from the US to Estonia, where he is under investigation. No legal action has been taken against him.

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