Walter Rauff, a wanted Nazi war criminal held responsible for sending 250,000 people to the gas chambers, is living in Punta Arenas, Chile, according to Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Nazi war crimes documentation center in Vienna. Wiesenthal, who said he is trying to trace 299 former Nazis, most of them in Latin America, said that Rauff runs a canning factory in Punta Arenas.
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