After the Holocaust, many Nazi soldiers had passed through the Allied lines unnoticed and escaped to many different countries around the world.
Simon Wiesenthal, who was a survivor of the Nazi death camps, he had dedicated his life to the documentations of the Holocaust crimes and hunting down all of the escaped Nazis still at large. Wiesel had said, "When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it."
In order to hunt the Nazis there was cooperation with the Israeli, Austrian, former West German and other governments, they had taken out nearly 1,100 Nazi war criminals, which included Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the slaughter of the Jews; Franz Murer, "The Butcher of Wilno," and Erich Rajakowitsch, in charge of the "death transports" in Holland. All of his capturing and killings are detailed in his memoirs, The Murderers Among Us. Some of his other books include, Sails of Hope, Sunflower, Max and Helen, Krystyna, Every Day Remembrance Day, and Justice Not Vengeance. In 1989, a film based on Mr. Wiesenthal’s life entitled, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story was produced by Home Box Office and starred Academy Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley as Simon Wiesenthal.
In October 1966, nine SS officers who were found by Wiesenthal, went on trial in Stuttgart, and West Germany for participating in the extermination of Jews in Lvov. The number one person on Wiesenthal's most-wanted list was Franz Stangl, he was the commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps in Poland. After Wiesenthal went undercover for three years, Stangl was found to be located in Brazil and was remanded to West Germany for imprisonment in 1967. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and died in prison.
Wiesenthal had reopened the Jewish Documentation Center after the capture of Eichmann, this time it was opened in Vienna, and concentrated precisely on the hunting of war criminals. Karl Silberbauer was one of his high priority cases, he was the Gestapo officer who arrested Anne Frank, the fourteen year-old German-Jewish girl who was murdered by the Nazis after hiding in an Amsterdam attic for two years. Dutch neo-Nazi propagandists were fairly successful in their attempts to discredit the authenticity of Anne Frank's famous diary until Wiesenthal located Silberbauer, then a police inspector in Austria, in 1963. "Yes," Silberbauer confessed, when confronted, "I arrested Anne Frank."
Source:"Simon Wiesenthal." Jewish Virtual Library. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, 20
Sept. 2005. Web. 19 Feb. 2015. http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441293#.VOibXcJ0zIU
Simon Wiesenthal, who was a survivor of the Nazi death camps, he had dedicated his life to the documentations of the Holocaust crimes and hunting down all of the escaped Nazis still at large. Wiesel had said, "When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it."
In order to hunt the Nazis there was cooperation with the Israeli, Austrian, former West German and other governments, they had taken out nearly 1,100 Nazi war criminals, which included Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the slaughter of the Jews; Franz Murer, "The Butcher of Wilno," and Erich Rajakowitsch, in charge of the "death transports" in Holland. All of his capturing and killings are detailed in his memoirs, The Murderers Among Us. Some of his other books include, Sails of Hope, Sunflower, Max and Helen, Krystyna, Every Day Remembrance Day, and Justice Not Vengeance. In 1989, a film based on Mr. Wiesenthal’s life entitled, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story was produced by Home Box Office and starred Academy Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley as Simon Wiesenthal.
In October 1966, nine SS officers who were found by Wiesenthal, went on trial in Stuttgart, and West Germany for participating in the extermination of Jews in Lvov. The number one person on Wiesenthal's most-wanted list was Franz Stangl, he was the commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps in Poland. After Wiesenthal went undercover for three years, Stangl was found to be located in Brazil and was remanded to West Germany for imprisonment in 1967. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and died in prison.
Wiesenthal had reopened the Jewish Documentation Center after the capture of Eichmann, this time it was opened in Vienna, and concentrated precisely on the hunting of war criminals. Karl Silberbauer was one of his high priority cases, he was the Gestapo officer who arrested Anne Frank, the fourteen year-old German-Jewish girl who was murdered by the Nazis after hiding in an Amsterdam attic for two years. Dutch neo-Nazi propagandists were fairly successful in their attempts to discredit the authenticity of Anne Frank's famous diary until Wiesenthal located Silberbauer, then a police inspector in Austria, in 1963. "Yes," Silberbauer confessed, when confronted, "I arrested Anne Frank."
Source:"Simon Wiesenthal." Jewish Virtual Library. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, 20
Sept. 2005. Web. 19 Feb. 2015. http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441293#.VOibXcJ0zIU