Are there Nazi war criminals still at large?
As the Allied forces invaded Germany and it became clear that Germany had lost the Second World War, the ruler of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler and his fiancée took their lives in a bunker in Berlin. Other members of the Nazi party and army, however, fled Germany, scattering across the globe. Catching these people and bringing them to trial became a priority after the war. Most of the top officials were captured and tried. In November 1945, at the famous Nuremberg Trials, 22 men were tried — on