Famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal celebrates his 90th birthday this week. But the man who helped bring 1,100 Nazi runaways to trial said he has no plans to retire. “I never thought I would get so old, especially not in the concentration camps,” said Wiesenthal, a survivor of 12 camps before being liberated by U.S. forces in 1945.
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