{"id":48597,"date":"2012-07-16T18:43:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=48597"},"modified":"2012-07-16T18:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:47:51","slug":"number-one-most-wanted-nazi-war-criminal-accused-of-complicity-in-15700-deaths-tracked-down-in-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/number-one-most-wanted-nazi-war-criminal-accused-of-complicity-in-15700-deaths-tracked-down-in-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Number One Most Wanted’ Nazi-War Criminal Accused Of Complicity In 15,700 Deaths Tracked Down In Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Tom Goodenough<\/a><\/span>\u00a0–<\/p>\n

A Nazi-war criminal accused of complicity in the killings of 15,700 Jews has been tracked down.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which compiles a list of the most-wanted suspects from the Second World War, confirmed that Laszlo Csatary was identified in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hell: Millions lost their lives at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where Laszlo Csatary is accused of being complicit in deporting 15,700 to their deaths<\/p><\/div>\n

The 97-year-old was a police commander in charge of a Jewish ghetto in Kassa, Hungary, during the war, from where thousands were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ten months ago an informer, who was paid $25,000 for the tip-off, had provided information that allowed the Simon Wiesenthal Centre to locate\u00a0Csatary, 97, in Budapest.
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In September last year, they had passed on their information to the prosecutor’s office in the Hungarian capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

A statement released on Sunday by\u00a0Efraim\u00a0Zuroff, the director of the centre dedicated to hunting down Nazi-war criminals, said it had submitted new evidence regarding crimes committed during World War II by its ‘Number One Most Wanted suspect’ Laszlo Csatary.<\/p>\n

The centre said the evidence related to Csatary’s key role in the deportation of approximately 300 Jews from\u00a0Kosice\u00a0to Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, where almost all were murdered in the summer of 1941.<\/span>Budapest’s assistant prosecutor general, Jeno Varga, said: ‘An investigation is under way. The prosecutor’s office will study the information received.<\/p>\n

But Zuroff said in the Centre’s statement: ‘This new evidence strengthens the already very strong case against Csatary and reinforces our insistence that he be held accountable for his crimes.<\/p>\n

‘The passage of time in no way diminishes his guilt and old age should not afford protection for Holocaust perpetrators.’<\/span><\/p>\n

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The former police commander of the Jewish ghetto in Kassa, Hungary is accused of complicity in transporting thousands to their deaths<\/p><\/div>\n

Zuroff told AFP that the The Sun had photographed and filmed Csatary, having acted on the information that the Wiesenthal Center had released last September.<\/span><\/p>\n

When its reporters confronted him on his doorstep, he had denied any crimes and slammed the door in their faces, the paper reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Wiesenthal Centre\u00a0has urged Hungarian prosecutors to put Csatary on trial.<\/span><\/p>\n

They say he served during World War II as a senior Hungarian police officer in the Slovakian city of Kosice, then under Hungarian rule.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was complicit in the deportations of thousands of Jews from Kosice and the surrounding area to the Auschwitz death camp in the spring of 1944.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to evidence, Csatary had treated the Jews in the ghetto with cruelty, whipping women and forcing them to dig holes with their bare hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1948, a Czech court condemned him to death after a trial held in his absence.
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He had fled to Canada and had worked as an art dealer using a false identity, before being unmasked in 1995 and forced to flee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Courtesy\u00a0Daily Mail UK<\/p>\n

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