Other Places Have Deer Hunting Season
Yesterday, here in Buenos Aires, Simon Wiesenthal Center director Efraim Zuroff launched Operation Last Chance, a round-up of still suelto Nazi war criminals around the world. Why launch that here? Well, up near the top of the Nazi list is Dr. Aribert Heim, now 93, the former camp doctor of Austria's Mauthausen death camp, where Simon Wiesenthal himself was almost killed in 1945. According to a story in the Telegraph (UK), Heim was known for injecting patients with lethal drugs and carrying out operations on prisoners without anaesthetic because he was "bored". The nasty bugger is thought to be in Argentina or Chile. As we've noted before, while Argentina's open immigration policies are a breath of fresh air after the U.S.'s "Fear All Foreigners" strategy (even before 9/11), after so many Serbian, Cosa Nostra, and Nazi killers have turned up here, one would hope the country would get a little more selective, no?
posted by Ian @ 4:34 PM
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Funny! The Soviet Union and the USA attracted masses of Nazis after WWII (do you remember that Werner von Braun?, the guy who is celebrated for sending the man to the moon, guilty for the lives of thousands of forced labour prisoners). I read somewhere that Nazi war criminals are called depending on the country they fled to: in the USA (and others) they are called "german scientists", in Southamerica "Nazi war criminals"
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