— A special unit of the Israel police has files on some 200,000 Nazi war criminals still at large and has been instrumental in bringing about 3,000 of them to trial in countries around the world, the unit’s commander, Inspector Menachem Russek, told Israel Radio in a special Heroes and Martyrs Memorial Day interview.
He said the eight police officers in the unit were all former inmates in Nazi concentration camps and each was responsible for the region in which they had been imprisoned. The unit was born out of the team that hunted down and prepared evidence against Adolf Eichmann after the West German government asked Israel for information, including testimony by Israelis, on wanted former Nazi officials.
Russek said the units main quarry today was the infamous Dr. Joseph Mengele. “We are looking for him, and I am certain we will eventually track him down and have him brought to justice,” he said.
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