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A list of most wanted Nazi suspects

Thu Feb 5, 2009 11:58 AM EST
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The Associated Press
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— The Simon Wiesenthal Center's most recent list of 10 most wanted Nazis:

1. Dr. Aribert Heim, whereabouts listed as unknown; recent reports suggest he died in Cairo in 1992: Indicted in Germany on charges he murdered hundreds of inmates at Austria's Mauthausen concentration camp.

2. John Demjanjuk, in United States: Ukrainian immigrant alleged by U.S. authorities to have been guard at Nazi camps. He denies that. Sentenced to death in Israel. Verdict overturned in 1993. Munich prosecutors investigating whether there is enough evidence of alleged involvement in the deaths of 29,000 Jews to charge him in Germany.

3. Sandor Kepiro, in Hungary: Former Hungarian gendarmerie officer accused of involvement in killings of more than 1,000 civilians in Serbia. Convicted twice in Hungarian courts but never punished. Kepiro moved back to Hungary in 1996 after decades in Argentina, denies accusations. Hungary reinvestigating.

4. Milivoj Asner, in Austria: Police chief in Croatia's wartime Nazi puppet regime, suspected of active role in persecution and deportation to death of hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. Austria refused Croatia's 2005 extradition request, says he is unfit to stand trial.

5. Soeren Kam, in Germany: Former SS member wanted by Denmark in the 1943 assassination of journalist. Extradition from Germany blocked in 2007.

6. Heinrich Boere, in Germany: Admitted hit man for Waffen-SS accused of killing three Dutch civilians. Sentenced to death in absentia in 1949 in Netherlands, later commuted to life in prison. Court ruling that he is unfit to stand trial is being appealed.

7. Charles Zentai, in Australia: Former Hungarian soldier under Hungarian investigation since December 2004 on suspicion he killed man in Budapest in 1944 for failing to wear a Jewish yellow star. Zentai denies charge.

8. Mikhail Gorshkow, in Estonia: U.S. officials and Jewish groups accuse Gorshkow of helping kill Jews while serving as interpreter and interrogator for German Gestapo in Belarus. Estonia prosecutors investigating case.

9. Algimantas Dailide, in Germany: Convicted in 2006 in Lithuania of rounding up Jews for Nazis. Ruled too frail to serve his five years in jail.

10. Harry Mannil, in Venezuela: Former officer in Estonia's political police and German security forces during Nazi occupation of Estonia. U.S. authorities investigating Mannil's 1990s visa application concluded he took part in murder of hundreds of Jews. Was cleared in 2005 by Estonian investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity.

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