OPERATION: LAST CHANCE is a campaign to bring remaining Nazi war criminals to justice by offering financial rewards for information leading to their arrest and conviction. To date the initiative has been launched in Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Austria, Croatia, and Hungary.

Operation: Last Chance is a joint project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Targum Shlishi Foundation.

  
 

Wiesenthal Center 2007 Report on Investigation and Prosecution
of Nazi War Criminals Reveals Remarkable Rise in Convictions
Full Text of Report Available on Wiesenthal Websites

Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals)
Investigación y procesamiento de criminales de guerra nazis en el mundo
(April 1, 2006 – March 31, 2007)


LATEST NEWS

July 1, 2008 -- An international human-rights organization has asked a Spanish court to indict John Demjanjuk and three others and seek their extradition from the U.S. to stand trial for Nazi-era war crimes against Spanish nationals more...
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July 1, 2008 -- German officials insisted Monday they were working hard to catch Aribert Heim, a 94-year-old most-wanted Nazi war-crimes suspect, rebuffing criticism from a Jewish group they weren't doing enough to nail him more...
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June 29, 2008 -- BERLIN - VIENNA (AFP)---The Simon Wiesenthal Center called Thursday for a new psychiatric report by international experts to determine whether alleged Croatian Nazi war criminal Milivoj Asner is unfit to be questioned, as Austrian doctors claim he is more...
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June 27, 2008 -- The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized German judicial authorities in Baden-Baden on Friday, accusing them of obstructing the hunt for former Nazi SS doctor Aribert Heim more...
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June 27, 2008 -- Frankfurt/Main (AP) Mehr als fünf Jahrzehnte nach Kriegsende ist der SS-Arzt Aribert Heim trotz einer ausgesetzten hohen Belohnung noch immer nicht gefasst worden more...
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June 27, 2008 -- Mehr als fünf Jahrzehnte nach Kriegsende ist der SS-Arzt Aribert Heim, der mehrere tausend Häftlinge tötete, immer noch auf freiem Fuß. Auf den NS-Verbrecher wurde eine hohe Belohnung ausgesetzt more...
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June 27, 2008 -- BERLIN - The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized German judicial authorities in Baden-Baden on Friday, accusing them of obstructing the hunt for former Nazi SS doctor Aribert Heim more...
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June 27, 2008 -- Bei der Fahndung nach dem mutmaßlichen österreichischen NS-Kriegsverbrecher Aribert Heim hat das Simon-Wiesenthal-Zentrum der deutschen Justiz "große Versäumnisse" vorgeworfen. Das Baden-Badener Landgericht behindere die Fahndungsmaßnahmen more...
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