Tuesday,
April 01, 2008
Nazi Hunt: Italians do it Better
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
praising report comes from the
The
praising report comes from the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre
(SWC), the international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to
?repairing the world?, a task that includes confronting anti-Semitism, hate,
and terrorism, but also chasing Nazi war criminals.
In
a conversation with EJP, Efraim Zuroff,
the SWC Jerusalem coordinator, recited by heart the latest data concerning
In
the last weeks, the media?s attention focused on the
Italian justice against a former SS, corporal Michael Seifert, extradited by
Canada to Italy, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment in his absence.
From
June 1944 to April 1945, Seifert served as commander of the concentration camp
of
Better
than
Less
brilliant a grade, ?C?, was given to
The
SWC then gave
Following
are Norway, Sweden, Syria, F1 countries that, according to the SWC, ?refuse in
principle to investigate, let alone prosecute, suspected Nazi war criminals
because of legal (statute of limitation) or ideological restrictions?.
The
report then lists the F2 countries (
And
it ends with a long list of South American but also European countries ?which
did not respond to the questionnaire, but clearly did not take any action
whatsoever to investigate suspected Nazi war criminals during the period under
review? (grade: X, Argentina, Belarus, Belgium,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic,
Greece, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Paraguay, Slovenia, Spain, Venezuela).
A
short version of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre 2008 report will be issued around
next Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Day, in May, a SWC
spokesperson told EJP.
The
full report is likely to be published in August.
Continue
'Nazi hunt'
Costantini said he wants to question the former SS commander
over the destiny of Otto Sein, also a former
Costantini said: ?The Italian
justice cannot prosecute a ghost, and more in general, it is really hard to
counter crimes that were committed such a long time ago, let alone get the
criminals extradited. Nevertheless, every time we get to sentence someone we
believe we have accomplished something very important under a juridical,
historical, and ethical profile
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