Hunting "Dr Death" in Chile

Antipodean Andy · Jul 14, 2008

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297413.htm

Nazi hunters have arrived in Chile on the trail of Aribert Heim - nicknamed 'Dr Death' for killing hundreds of inmates at an Austrian concentration camp during World War II - who they believe may be lurking in picturesque Patagonia.

Heim, who kept the skull of a man he decapitated as a paperweight, is the most wanted Nazi war criminal still thought to be alive.

He would be 94 and his family says he died in 1993.

"We are not here thinking that his capture is imminent, but we have to bolster a campaign that we launched a few months ago," Sergio Widder, of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Buenos Aires, said.

Mr Widder was accompanying Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff, who heads the Wiesenthal Centre's Jerusalem office.

The centre is offering a bounty of around $471,000 for Heim as part of a new drive to catch aged Nazi fugitives before they die unpunished.

Heim, an Austrian who killed hundreds of inmates at the Mauthausen concentration camp by injecting gasoline or poison in their hearts, has been on the run for 46 years since evading police in Germany in 1962 prior to a planned prosecution.

A doctor with Adolf Hitler's SS, Heim removed organs from victims without anaesthetic.

Holocaust survivors remember him relishing the fear of death in his victims' eyes.

After administering lethal injections, he timed death with a stopwatch.

The centre believes Heim is likely in Chilean or Argentine Patagonia, the region between the Andes and south Atlantic.

Heim's daughter lives in the scenic southern Chilean town of Puerto Montt 1,058 kilometres south of the capital Santiago.

Hundreds of Nazis sought refuge in Latin America after World War II, many lured to Argentina thanks to the open-door policies of General Juan Domingo Peron, as well as to Chile and Brazil.

Josef Mengele, the 'Angel of Death' at Auschwitz, escaped to Argentina and also lived in Paraguay before he died in Brazil in 1979.
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Kyt · Jul 14, 2008

What are the chances they'll find him? And the chances of extradition before he dies? Noble enterprise but recent attempts at prosecutions in Europe have faltered so doing so from a South American refuge has little chance of success.

spidge · Jul 14, 2008

He might not die of natural causes if the legal system looks to hard to crack. Alas they have to catch the butcher first.

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