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Sunday, September 25, 2005

Hunting Alois Brunner, meeting the family

The great-niece of Nazi War Criminal Alois Brunner writes about her meeting with, and death of, Simon Weisenthal:

...Maybe some readers feel uncomfortable about a great-niece of Alois Brunner writing in an Israeli newspaper on the occasion of Simon Wiesenthal's death. But since the newspaper asked me to do so, I want to publicly thank this impressive personality, Simon Wiesenthal, for his persistence in searching for war criminals and Nazi perpetrators like Alois Brunner.

I want to do so not only as a relative of one of the criminals he was trying to bring to justice, but also as an Austrian citizen who had often wondered why it was he and not official bodies that were occupied with such cases. What he did was needed not only from a juridical and political point of view; his mere presence and intervention also constituted a most important contribution to public discourse and private concern...

Alois Brunner has been sheltered by Syria for years, where he lived or still lives. Eric Sheie has a must-read post on this, where he quotes:

The arrest and conviction of Alois Brunner remains the top priority of leading Nazi hunters and war investigators but Brunner has successfully eluded justice. During his many years hiding out reportedly in an apartment on Haddad Street in the Syrian capital of Damascus, he openly assisted the Syrians in establishing their own secret police.

The Syrian authorities have covered and continue to cover Alois Brunner and he may never pay for his crimes. Germany, Austria, Slovakia, France and Poland currently seek his extradition, but the Syrians have been totally uncooperative in response to all these requests.

Posted by Solomon at 12:51 PM on Sunday, Sep 25, 2005 | Comments (1)
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#1 lkrut | September 25, 2005 7:16 PM

You think it's sick that Mengela was able to live out the rest of his life with his family continuing to funnel him $$..... I mean what did he do that was so bad? Experimented on babies right out of the womb, kids and adults? I mean come on people should get over it?

But this arrogant sob gives an interview where he arrogantly says that in a US newspaper and noone really gives too much of a crap.

Of all the reasons to invade Syria in a lightning strike? Too bad they didn't have the drones 15 years ago, though they were 'real effective' in taking out Saddam.

What's amazing is how disgusting the left is today. Galloway stands in front of a podium with Assad and tells the Syrian people how lucky they are to have him.
So called leftists like Finkelstein rail at Israel for any and every 'possible' wrong.... and meet with Hezballah leaders while Syria shelters a mass murderer.

Of course, our CIA helped this sob after WWII, and Mengela likely as well.

Normy would be sure to point that out while equivocates Hezballah or Syria.... lol.
piece of crap.