The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said it would work in cooperation with Germany to track down suspected Nazi war criminals receiving pensions from the German government. Germany is giving the center some $109,000 to start research, which will involve cross-checking the center’s archives against the list of more than 33,000 pensions being paid to World War II veterans or their surviving relatives.
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