Annual Nazi hunting report downgrades US, credits Germany
FILE – In this March 15, 2015 file photo a man holds a banner which reads “Racism Kills, Let’s Learn From the History”, in front of a train wagon that was used by the Nazis to carry Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz during WWII, in the Greek northern town of Thessaloniki, on the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, File)
The world’s predominant Nazi-hunting group is taking the United States to task over its failure to prosecute a member of a notorious Nazi killing unit who lived quietly in Minnesota for decades.
In its annual report, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said Monday that it had lowered its ranking of the U.S.’s Nazi-hunting efforts from A to B. It was the first time the U.S. has been ranked so low.
Efraim Zuroff, director of the center’s Israel office, said the ranking was in part because the U.S. took no action against Michael Karkoc. An Associated Press investigation exposed the retired carpenter as a commander in an SS-led Ukrainian unit.
This year’s report praised Germany for loosening criteria to make it easier to prosecute former Nazis.
Source:: Indian Express