The man credited with locating Adolf Eichmann said in a radio broadcast here tonight that there may be as many as 20,000 Nazi war criminals living in the United States, and that top U.S. Justice Department officials have pledged their cooperation in tracking them down.
Toviah Friedman, head of the Documentation Center in Israel, disclosed on a program on WEVD that it cost the Israel Government $2 million to locate the arch war criminal Eichmann, and that Israel has spent $5,000 a year since the end of World War II to locate Karl Wolff, a former SS leader, who is now facing trial in Munich. Mr. Friedman said that German consulates in New York City and Toronto "are taking eyewitness testimony from survivors of Nazi concentration camps against 2,000 war criminals awaiting trial in Germany."
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