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  Simon Wiesenthal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, Wiesenthal and his family were captured.
Cyla Wiesenthal was able to hide her Jewish identity from the Nazis because of her blonde hair and survived the war as a forced-laborer in the Rhineland.
Fellow Nazi hunter Tuviah Friedman, who has known Wiesenthal since 1946, accused him of numerous self-aggrandizing lies and of making himself rich from the Eichmann affair.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Wiesenthal   (1891 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Nazi-hunter Wiesenthal dies at 96
Simon Wiesenthal survived the Nazi death camps of World War II Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal has died in the Austrian capital, Vienna, aged 96.
He was credited with helping to bring more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice in the decades after the genocide of the Jews in World War II.
Six million Jews were murdered in the Nazi death camps of World War II, along with thousands of Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people and political dissidents.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/4262892.stm   (550 words)

  
 Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies - World News - MSNBC.com
In a way he became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice,” Hier told The Associated Press.
Simon Wiesenthal, seen here in June 2005, was born in 1908 in what is now Ukraine and helped catch major Nazi war criminals such as Adolf Eichmann and Franz Stangl, the ex-commandant of the Treblinka death camp.
It was his fifth death camp among the dozen Nazi camps in which he was imprisoned, and he weighed just 99 pounds when he was freed.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9404749   (713 words)

  
 Nazi hunter lectures - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum addressed a large audience in the UMKC School of Law Courtroom last Wednesday.
Chief Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum was the guest speaker for "Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals" last Wednesday evening.
The mission of the office is to identify and deport any persons living in the United States who were involved with Nazi persecution, and to keep war criminals from entering the United States.
www.unews.com /news/2005/02/28/News/Nazi-Hunter.Lectures-879497.shtml   (434 words)

  
 PM - Nazi hunter
MARK COLVIN: The veteran Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal has just retired, at the age of ninety-four, and some old war criminals may be sleeping easier in their beds.
But Mr Wiesenthal has successors who don't believe his retirement claim that there are "no more Nazis worth pursuing," and one of the most prominent of these Nazi hunters is an Australia.
MARK COLVIN: The Nazi hunter Dr Efrain Zuroff, Director of the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.
www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s861676.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Simon Wiesenthal: Fraudulent 'Nazi Hunter'
He pretends to be the "Eichmann hunter," even though everyone knows that this was the work of a secret service, and that Wiesenthal only takes credit for that.
It was while fighting in the partisan ranks against the Nazis that we managed to collect and bury for safekeeping considerable amount of evidence...
Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group.The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world...the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity.
www.rense.com /general67/weis.htm   (5368 words)

  
 Famed Nazi Hunter Passes Away
His wife of 67 years, Cyla, was once quoted as saying that being married to a Nazi Hunter was like being married to thousands, maybe millions dead.
For years, especially during the height of the Cold War, when many wanted to forget or evade the horrors of Hitler and his followers, Wiesenthal was an insistent reminder that their evil acts must be remembered and accounted for.
In one sense, the entire quest for justice in the aftermath of genocide is futile, because you cannot punish all the killers, and the punishment itself is incommensurate with the nature of the crime," Berenbaum said.
www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/sept/article300.html   (855 words)

  
 MARK WEBER: Simon Wiesenthal: Bogus 'Nazi Hunter'
When the Israeli government refused to give Wiesenthal funds to search for Eichmann, the "Nazi hunter" issued a statement to the Israeli press claiming the government was refusing to help capture the former SS man. [31] One of Wiesenthal's most spectacular cases involved a Chicago man named Frank Walus.
In 1974, Simon Wiesenthal, the famous "Nazi hunter" of Vienna, denounced Walus as "a Pole in Chicago who performed duties with the Gestapo in the ghettos of Czestochowa and Kielce and handed over a number of Jews to the Gestapo."
In 1975 he acknowledged in a letter published in a British periodical that "there were no extermination camps on German soil." [45] He thus implicitly conceded that the claims made at the postwar Nuremberg Tribunal and elsewhere that Buchenwald, Dachau and other camps in Germany proper were "extermination camps" are not true.
www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/9/4/Weber439-452.html   (4247 words)

  
 Israel Remembers Nazi Holocaust Hunter Simon Wiesenthal
Through his tireless efforts, many Nazi war criminals were prevented from escaping their due punishment, compelled instead to face the force of international law.
A survivor of five Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal changed his life's mission after the war, dedicating himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to being a voice for the 6 million Jews who died during the onslaught.
In Austria, which took decades to acknowledge its own role in Nazi crimes, Wiesenthal was ignored and often insulted before being honored for his work when he was in his 80s.
www.israelnewsagency.com /simonwiesenthalisrael480920.html   (1861 words)

  
 Nazi-hunter Wiesenthal dead at 96
The international centers bearing his name are on to contemporary evils: the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe, the international spread of terrorism, the persistence of racism.
He was widely credited with bringing Nazi crimes into the public consciousness.
When the Nazis began their annihilation of Jews in 1942, she escaped by using false identity papers.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/0921wiesenthal21.html   (747 words)

  
 Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Legendary Nazi Hunter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
The death of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal brings to a close a storied career shrouded in achievement, in dazzle and perhaps even in mystery.
Wiesenthal insisted that Nazi criminals be brought to justice, not to death.
For years before the nabbing, Wiesenthal had a hunch about the widows of Nazi criminals: He suspected that the men they married during the postwar years were in fact their former husbands with new names and new identities.
www.forward.com /articles/3999   (1591 words)

  
 Nazi - NOVA Online | Decoding Nazi Secrets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Censorship in Nazi Germany · Leni Riefenstahl · Education in Nazi Germany The Church in Nazi Germany · The Nazis and Germany's economy 1933-39
Catholic Bishops giving the Nazi salute in honor of Hitler Ludwig Müller, a Nazi sympathizer, and a candidate of Hitler, was elected to the position of
The Development of the Nazi (National Socialist) Party The Nazis also made use of the radio stations to broadcast Nazi propaganda.
eye.surferspace.com /?q=eye-nazi   (227 words)

  
 Flame Warriors ~ View topic - nazi hunters?
I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone use calling people Nazis as their own exclusive tactic, but I've certainly seen it done on occasion by different people, and have even done it a few times myself.
As for someone whose primary tactic is to accuse their opponents of being Nazis, I think that would probably be a very weak incarnation of Rebel Without a Clue.
Sometimes you call someone a Nazi or fascist just to anger them and not necesarily because you your self are upset and want to point out what a bad person they are.
redwing.hutman.net /~mreed/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58   (601 words)

  
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Following the war, he began gathering evidence on Nazi atrocities on behalf of the War Crimes Section of the American military.
Using his trademark thoroughness and determination, Wiesenthal gathered every record and piece of evidence related to Nazi war criminals, using his talent for investigation to piece solid cases together.
Wiesenthal considered his inability to capture the brutal Nazi doctor from the Auschwitz death camp, Josef Mengele, his greatest failure.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3144642,00.html   (742 words)

  
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The Nazis' highest authority, the person most to blame for the Holocaust, was missing at the trials.
Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in the final days of the war, as had several of his closest aides.
Trials of Nazis continued to take place both in Germany and many other countries.
www.ushmm.org /outreach/wcrime.htm   (256 words)

  
 Nazi Hunter Dies At Age 96 - CBS News
Nazi Hunter Dies At Age 96 - CBS News
Wiesenthal spent over 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and remembering the Jewish experience as a lesson for humanity.
Wiesenthal, who had been an architect before World War II, changed his life's mission after the war, dedicating himself to trying to track down Nazi war criminals and to being a voice for the 6 million Jews who died during the onslaught.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/09/20/world/main860179.shtml   (609 words)

  
 Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies. 20/09/2005. ABC News Online
Mr Wiesenthal survived after four years in a concentration camp but 89 of his relatives died in the holocaust.
In a campaign aimed at ensuring the world did not forget the terrors of the Third Reich, Mr Wiesenthal brought 1,100 Nazi fugitives to trial.
Among them was Adolf Eichmann, the man entrusted by Adolf Hitler with carrying out the Nazi genocide program against the Jews.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200509/s1464638.htm   (333 words)

  
 World mourns Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
PARIS (AFX) - Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who died in Vienna today aged 96, was lauded across the world as a 'tenacious' fighter who kept alive the cause of justice for victims of the Holocaust.
A Holocaust survivor who lost scores of relatives to the World War II Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal was remembered as a man who pursued the perpetrators to all corners of the globe with an unrelenting tenacity.
The Anne Frank Foundation, which honours the memory of a young German Jewish girl whose diary of her family's two years in hiding from the Nazis is one of the most compelling accounts of Nazi terror, praised Wiesenthal for helping to track down the Gestapo officer who finally arrested them in Amsterdam in 1944.
www.forbes.com /finance/feeds/afx/2005/09/20/afx2234355.html   (1058 words)

  
 RNN / German Nazi Hunter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Germany's record in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice has been "very disappointing," the country's leading Nazi hunter was quoted Saturday as saying.
German courts have fewer than 6,500 of 106,000 alleged Nazi war criminals, the magazine said."Given the Nazi's tremendous terror and extermination machine," this is "a very disappointing result," Dressen was quoted as saying.
Dressen was named to head the Central Office for the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes after its longtime head, Alfred Streim, died last year.
www.romnews.com /a/26-97.html   (275 words)

  
 Hundreds honor Nazi hunter
HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) - Simon Wiesenthal, who spent half a century tirelessly tracking down Nazis hiding throughout the world, was laid to rest yesterday in Israel, the nation that sprang from the ashes of the Holocaust.
Wiesenthal, who died Tuesday in his sleep at his Vienna, Austria, home at age 96, lost 89 family members in the Holocaust, survived a dozen Nazi camps and weighed less than 100 pounds when he was liberated in 1945.
Speaker after speaker at the funeral in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya saluted the man who, by his own count, helped bring more than 1,000 Nazi war criminals to justice, giving voice to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
www.columbiatribune.com /2005/Sep/20050924News009.asp   (688 words)

  
 Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter
The veteran Jewish activist helped bring more than 1 100 Nazi criminals to justice, including Adolf Eichmann, an architect of Hitler's "Final Solution" who was tracked down by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960, to be tried and executed and executed in Israel the following year.
After escaping from the Soviet secret police after the Soviet Union signed its pact with Hitler's Germany, he was arrested and interned when the Nazis took the place of the Soviets.
Between 1941 and May 5 1945, when he was freed by US troops from the Mauthausen camp in Austria, he was held in five different concentration camps.
www.namibian.com.na /2005/September/world/05D9A6BF51.html   (440 words)

  
 LP: Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies
Altogether the Nazis are estimated to have murdered 11 civilians, including 6 million Jews.
Simon Wiesenthal was the embodiment of the failure of the Nazis.
It's one thing to be willing to put your life on the line fighting these bastards, quite another to have to cower under their boot while they have a bayonet to your family's throat.
www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=109986   (3010 words)

  
 Nazi Hunter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
In taking note of the life of Simon Wiesenthal, the great Nazi hunter who died yesterday at 96 after surviving the Soviet NKVD, numerous German death camps and a 1982 assassination attempt, we are reminded of Andrew Jackson's famous aphorism: "One man with courage makes a majority."
Last Nazi big that I am aware of that is still on the loose is a guy named Brunner, who worked for the Syrians after the war, and lives in an apartment in Damascus.
He actively participated in the mass murder and was often sent by Eichmann as a trouble shooter to areas such as France to expedite the killings.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1489073/posts   (1171 words)

  
 Legacy Matters: Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi Hunter
He helped track down Nazi war criminals following World War II and spent decades fighting anti-Semitism.
His greatest success was the discovery in Argentina of Adolf Eichmann, the man Adolf Hitler entrusted with carrying out his genocidal campaign against the Jews.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Wiesenthal “brought justice to those who had escaped justice.” “He acted on behalf of 6 million people who could no longer defend themselves,” ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
www.estatevaults.com /lm/archives/002004.html   (386 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - International - Row as Nazi hunter Wiesenthal buried   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Simon Wiesenthal's daughter comforts his grandchild as mourners lay the famed Nazi hunter to rest.
SIMON Wiesenthal, the world's foremost Nazi hunter, was hailed as the "conscience of the Holocaust" at his burial in the Israeli coastal town of Herzliya yesterday.
Hundreds of mourners, including foreign dignitaries and Holocaust survivors, crowded into a small, manicured cemetery to honour the man who helped to catch some of the most notorious criminals of the Second World War.
news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=1985712005   (749 words)

  
 ABC News: Nazi-Hunter Wiesenthal Laid to Rest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
A survivor of five Nazi concentration camps and seven other prisons, Wiesenthal spent the rest of his life pursuing Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice.
Enlisted by the Americans to research war criminals, he spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and to being a voice for the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Wiesenthal, who lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust, estimated he helped bring some 1,100 Nazi war criminals to trial.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1151702&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (413 words)

  
 Simon Wiesenthal: Fraudulent 'Nazi Hunter'
In 1975 and again in 1993 he publicly acknowledged that "there were no extermination camps on German soil."31 He thus implicitly conceded that the claims made at the postwar Nuremberg Tribunal and elsewhere that Buchenwald, Dachau and other camps in Germany proper were "extermination camps" are not true.
In more than 40 years of "Nazi hunting," Wiesenthal's role in locating and capturing Adolf Eichmann is often considered his greatest achievement.32 (Eichmann headed the wartime SS Jewish affairs department.
This letter prompted a US government investigation and legal action.38 The Washington Post dealt with the case in a 1981 article entitled "The Nazi Who Never Was: How a witch hunt by judge, press and investigators branded an innocent man a war criminal." The lengthy piece, which was copyrighted by the American Bar Association, reported:39
www.ihr.org /jhr/v15/v15n4p-8_Weber.html   (5039 words)

  
 Simon Wiesthenthal: Fraudulent 'Nazi Hunter'
In 1975 and again in 1993 he publicly acknowledged that "there were no extermination camps on German soil." He thus implicitly conceded that the claims made at the postwar Nuremberg Tribunal and elsewhere that Buchenwald, Dachau and other camps in Germany proper were "extermination camps" are not true.
The Washington Post dealt with the case in a 1981 article entitled "The Nazi Who Never Was: How a witch hunt by judge, press and investigators branded an innocent man a war criminal." The lengthy piece, which was copyrighted by the American Bar Association, reported:
In an atmosphere of hatred and loathing verging on hysteria, the government persecuted an innocent man.
library.flawlesslogic.com /simon_w.htm   (3877 words)

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