Investigators have started to prepare a new list of suspected Nazi war criminals living in Australia, an Australian Federal Police official said this week.
The suspects, on a list given police by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, are believed to be former members of Nazi killing squads that operated in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
The issue was reignited with the publication in this week’s Australia/Israel Review of an angry attack of the Australian Government by Robert Greenwood.
Greenwood led investigations between 1987 and 1991 of alleged war criminals living in Australia.
“The politicians of this country have let down the Jewish people,” he said.
He also said the government that initially introduced legislation allowing for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals consisted of individuals with “morality” and “political” farsightedness.”
Now, he said, Australia is “bereft” of comparable leaders.
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