List of Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Each year since 2001, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center produces an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which, since at least 2005, includes a list of "most wanted" criminals that had never been convicted.

Nazi war criminals slated for possible prosecution

The following Nazi war criminals are slated for possible prosecution as of 2016, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.[1] Current country of residence is listed first, with country where crime was committed enclosed in brackets.

  1. Helma Kissner, (age 92) – Germany (Poland) – served as a radio operator in the Auschwitz death camp from April to July 1944 – charged with accessory to murder in 260,000 cases.[2] Ruled unfit to stand trial on 9 September 2016 by a court in Kiel.[3]
  2. Reinhold Hanning, (age 95) – Germany (Poland) – served in the Auschwitz death camp from January 1943 until June 1944 – charged with accessory to murder in 170,000 cases.[2] Hanning was convicted and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment on June 17, 2016.[4]
  3. Helmut Oberlander (age 92)– Canada (Ukraine) – served in Einsatzkommando 10A (part of Einsatzgruppe D, which murdered an estimated 23,000 mostly Jewish civilians. In July 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that ordered the Canadian government to reconsider its decision to revoke Oberlander's Canadian citizenship. This means that to deport him so that he can be tried for war crimes, the government first has to prove that Oberlander was a willing participant in Nazi death squad activities.[5]
  4. Hubert Zafke (age 95)– Germany (Poland) – served as a medic in the Auschwitz death camp during the years 1943 and 1944 – charged with accessory to murder in 3,681 cases.[2]
  5. Alfred Stork (age 93) – Germany (Greece) – participated in the September 1943 mass murder of 120 Italian officers on the Greek island of Kefalonia.
  6. Helmut Rasbol (age 91)– Denmark (Belarus) – during the years 1942-1943 served as a guard in the Judenlager established by the Nazis in Bobruisk, Belarus, during which almost all the Jewish inmates of the camp were executed or died of the horrible physical conditions.
  7. Aksel Andersen – Sweden (Belarus) - during the years 1942-1943 served as a guard in the Judenlager established by the Nazis in Bobruisk, Belarus, during which almost all the Jewish inmates of the camp were executed or died of the horrible physical conditions.
  8. Johann Robert Riss (age 93)– Germany (Italy) – participated in the murder of 184 civilians in Padule di Fucecchio, Italy on August 23, 1944.
  9. Algimantas Dailide (age 95)– Germany (Lithuania) – served in the Saugumas (Lithuanian Security Police) in Vilnius – arrested Jews and Poles who were subsequently executed by the Nazis and Lithuanian collaborators.
  10. Jakob Palij (age 93)– USA (Poland) – served as a guard in the Trawniki concentration camp.

The 2015 Annual Nazi war criminals report lists ten men:[6]

  1. Gerhard Sommer (age 95. Last known location: Germany.) Declared "unfit for trial" by court in May 2015 due to severe dementia.[7]
  2. Vladimir Katriuk (October 1, 1921 - May 22, 2015. Last known location: Canada) Reported to have died in May 2015, aged 93.[8]
  3. Alfred Stork or Stoerk (Last known location: Germany.) Last known news: former corporal convicted in absentia in 2013 by Rome Military Court for participating in killing of 117 Italian prisoners of war on Greek island of Cephalonia.[9]
  4. Johann Robert Riss (Last known location: Germany.) Last known news: on May 25, 2011, the former sergeant found guilty in absentia for participating in killing of 184 civilians near Padule di Fucecchio in Italy and sentenced to life in prison. Germany has declined to extradite Riss.[10][11]
  5. X - Helmuth Leif Rasmussen wanted for murder of Jews in Bobruisk, Belarus
  6. Y - unnamed person (Last known location: Germany) wanted for being accessory to the murder of Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz
  7. Z - unnamed person (Last known location: Norway ) wanted for murder of Jews in various locations in Poland and Ukraine
  8. Oskar Groening (age 95. Last known location: Germany) Trial in Hannover, Germany, July 2015. Found guilty of being accessory to murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to four years imprisonment.[12]
  9. Algimantas Dailidė (age 95. Last known location: Germany) Deported from USA to Germany in 2004. Sentenced to five years imprisonment by a court in Vilnius but in 2008 the Lithuanian high court ruled that he was in too poor health to be punished.[10]
  10. Helmut Oberlander (age 92. Last known location: Canada.) Granted reprieve from possible loss of Canadian citizenship after decision by the Canadian Federal Appeal Court.[13]

Named on previous lists

References

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