Australia rejected a charge that it was a “haven” for Nazi scientists after World War II. The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office made the allegation after a newspaper report was published Monday that said Australia allowed 127 Nazi scientists to immigrate as part of a plan to prevent Russia from recruiting Nazi scientists. Some 31 of these scientists were members of the Nazi Party. Australia disbanded its war crimes unit in 1993 after three failed prosecutions.
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