Operation Last Chance
The Operation Last Chance is an international campaign with the aim of looking for Nazi war criminals to feed the judiciary. The motto of the campaign is: “Late, but not too late.” For clues that lead to the conviction of one of the wanted persons, 10,000 euros are exposed each time .
organization
The project sponsors are the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Targum Shlishi Foundation . The activities are led by Efraim Zuroff .
The initiative is currently active in nine countries:
- since 2002: Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania
- since 2003: Austria , Poland and Romania
- since 2004: Croatia and Hungary
- since 2005: Germany
Wanted list
Aribert Heim and Alois Brunner were declared dead by official bodies based on convincing evidence, but there was no single clear evidence of death. According to an APA report on November 30, 2014, Alois Brunner died in Damascus in 2009 or 2010, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. For the time being, the Austrian Ministry of Justice has left Brunner on the list of people drawn up in 2007, for whom a reward of 50,000 euros was offered for clues leading to the seizure.
Ivan Kalymon died in Detroit on June 29, 2014.
On February 27, 2014, the Ellwangen district court closed the proceedings against Hans Lipschis because he was no longer able to defend himself adequately.
criticism
In an interview with Deutschlandfunk, the Jewish historian Michael Wolffsohn criticized the project as "tasteless" for the exposure of a bounty. In the same context, he also referred to the repatriation of John Demjanjuk as a possible “institutional and perhaps even personal self-importance”, as well as the work of the Wiesenthal Center as “slapstick but not for a really intensive, respectful reappraisal”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Efraim Zuroff: Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (April 1, 2003 - March 31, 2004). An Annual Status Report. (PDF; 615 kB) August 2004, pp. 42–43.
- ^ SWC Annual Report on Nazi War Criminals Reveals Dramatic Rise in New Investigations; Slams Ukraine and Others; & Praises US for Outstanding Success. May 4, 2005
- ^ Wiesenthal Center Annual Report on Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals. April 23, 2006.
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↑ Wiesenthal Center Annual Report Notes Rise in Number of Convictions of Nazi War Criminals During Past Year. April 15, 2007;
Efraim Zuroff: Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007). An Annual Status Report. ( MS Word ; 401 kB) August 2007. - ^ SWC Annual Worldwide Report and Most Wanted List for Nazi War Criminals. April 30, 2008.
- ^ Wiesenthal Center Annual Report on the Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals. April 20, 2009.
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^ SWC Annual Nazi War Criminal Report. April 11, 2010;
Efraim Zuroff: Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010). An Annual Status Report. November 2010, pp. 38-42. -
↑ Simon Wiesenthal Center's Tenth Annual Report on the Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals. ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. May 1, 2011; Efraim Zuroff: Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (April 1, 2010 - March 31, 2011). An Annual Status Report. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 2011.
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^ SWC Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals. (PDF; 95 kB) 2012;
Efraim Zuroff: Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals (April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012). An Annual Status Report. (PDF; 502 kB) December 2012, pp. 39–43. - ^ Efraim Zuroff: Simon Wiesenthal Center 2013 Annual Report on the Status of Nazi War Criminals. (PDF; 379 kB) April 2013.
- ↑ Wiesenthal Center 2014 Annual Report Praises New Legal Strategy by German Prosecutors Which Has Led to Impressive Results. April 28, 2014
- ↑ Wiesenthal Center 2015 Annual Report on the Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals. April 1, 2015.
- ↑ Wiesenthal Center 2016 Annual Report Praises Renewed Efforts by German Prosecutors. 4th May 2017
- ^ DerStandard.at - Austrian National Socialist Brunner apparently died in 2009 . APA notification dated November 30, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014.
- ↑ derStandard.at - In Austria, Brunner remains on the Nazi bounty list for the time being . Article dated December 1, 2014, accessed June 10, 2016.
- ↑ John Kalymon, Elderly 'Nazi,' Dies Before Germany Can Try Him For Murder. ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Huffington Post, July 9, 2014 (accessed June 10, 2016).
- ↑ Burhoff online: Decisions: Other courts: Nazi proceedings, ability to negotiate, requirements / LG Ellwangen, decision of 02/27/2014 - 1 Ks 9 Js 94162/12 . Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ↑ Wolffsohn criticizes poster campaigns on Nazi crimes as tasteless .