Jerusalem – In conjunction with
Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah) this week, the Simon Wiesenthal Center
released the initial findings of its fifteenth Annual Status Report
on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals,
which covers the period from April 1, 2015 until March 31, 2016.
Highlights
include: The
implementation (by local judicial authorities) of a legal strategy, paved the
way for the conviction on charges of accessory to murder of practically any person
who served either in a Nazi death camp or in the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing
units) in Germany.
The lack of political will to bring Nazi war
criminals to justice and/or to punish them continues to be the
major obstacle to achieving justice, particularly in post-Communist Eastern
Europe.
The campaign led by the Baltic countries to
distort the history of the Holocaust and obtain official
recognition that the crimes of the Communists are equal to those of the Nazis
is another obstacle to the prosecution of those responsible.
The full report is available here.
Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center
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