The Dutch war criminal Auke Pattist, now 58 years old, who was sentenced to death in absentia by a Dutch special tribunal in 1948, has been living in the Spanish town of Oviedo in the northwestern province of Asturia under his own name for many years.
This was published yesterday as front-page news by the Dutch mass daily, De Telegraaf, on the authority. of Simon Wiesenthal. Pattist during the German occupation of The Netherlands headed a raiding commando unit of the German SD in the province of Drenthe. In that capacity he arrested many persons whom the Germans wanted to liquidate, including many Jews. Pattist was arrested immediately after the war but in 1946 managed to escape.
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