How many Nazi war criminals are still alive?
No one knows, but it’s more than you might think and may run into the thousands. Most people don’t appreciate the scope of the Holocaust, because it actually took place in almost 20 countries and in each of those there were collaborators who helped the Nazis. Many of those people were young, and the progress of modern medicine is helping people live longer, including Nazi war criminals. Were all Nazis war criminals? No. A Nazi war criminal is someone who actively participated in the persecution and/or murder of innocent civilians under the aegis of Nazi Germany. How does the argument, “I was just doing my job” sit with you? Such a claim basically absolves anyone of any personal responsibility for his or her deeds, and if you look at World War II that way, there’s basically only one Nazi war criminal – Adolf Hitler – and everyone else is off the hook. That was not accepted at Nuremburg, and it should not be accepted today. How do you hunt for them? It’s the opposite of a modern murder i
