Austria offers rewards for tips leading to arrest of two Nazi criminals
Notice posted on website features photos physical descriptions offers reward for any information regarding Nazi fugitives.
By The Associated PressAustria has offered U.S. $68,971 rewards for information leading to the arrest of two fugitive Nazi criminals, including a key figure in the planning and execution of the murder of Jews during World War II.
A notice posted on the Justice Ministry's Web site this week features photos and physical descriptions of Aribert Heim, a concentration camp doctor, and Alois Brunner, the right-hand man of Adolf Eichmann, the Gestapo officer who organized the extermination of the Jews.
The notice, available in four different languages, states that individuals - not authorities who would have a duty to prosecute criminal acts - will be paidUS$68,917 for information enabling Austrian authorities to capture either of the men, both now in the 90s.
According to the notice, Heim is strongly suspected of murdering numerous prisoners in the Mauthausen concentration camp by injecting them directly in the heart with a deadly poison.
Brunner is strongly suspected of being significantly involved in the deportation of Jewish persons with the aim of murdering them, the notice reads. It also states that Brunner is presumed to have mutilated hands and just one remaining eye.
Heim practiced medicine in Germany after the war and fled after the government charged him in 1962. Brunner is believed to have found refuge in Syria.
An estimated 65,000 Austrian Jews perished in the Holocaust.
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Is really amazing those two criminals were born in 1912 and 1914 one is 95 years old and the other is 93, If they are still alive they have to pay for they crimes the only ones that can forgive those two criminals are all died. Austrian is a ridiculous country and their government is fake
who were their protectors?
I've been around. Matter of fact, I had quite a discussion with Axel, who tried to whitewash Waldheim. Axel insisted Waldheim wasn't a Nazi. I proved otherwise. Axel is still mad at me, but who cares. Axel was offended that I had stated that I wished to water Waldheims grave in a very personal manner.
like the rest of the Austrians, who felt that they were civilized people because of Mozart. It takes more than just a composer of music to make a civilized scociety, it takes civilized people.
Kurt Waldheim died recently. Had he been alive he would lie anyway like throughout his life: He "was in a sanatorium while WWII war was going on"
Austria should hire a medium, he/she could consult Kurt Waldheim, I'll bet he knows where they're at.