Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal has asked the Dutch government to request the extradition of Gustav Franz Wagner, an alleged Nazi war criminal living in Brazil. Wiesenthal has identified Wagner as the former deputy commander of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps who was responsible for the mass murders of Jews between 1942-1944, including 32,000 Dutch Jewish deportees at Sobibor.
The Netherlands Auschwitz Committee and The Netherlands Wiesenthal Fund have also asked the government to seek Wagner’s extradition. Wagner, detained by Sao Paulo police last week, has denied that he was a ranking officer at the concentration camps. Wiesenthal, who heads the Nazi war crimes documentation center in Vienna, said in a Dutch television interview Thursday night that the date and place of Wagner’s birth, July 18, 1911 in Vienna and the names of his parents were identical with those of the Sobibor had the surname Wagner, Wiesenthal said.
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