The Simon Wiesenthal Center offered a matching reward for the capture of a suspected Nazi war criminal. The center’s $156,000 matched the amount offered by the German government for the capture of Dr. Aribert Heim. Heim is believed to have killed hundreds of inmates at Mauthausen during World War II.
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