In a race against time, Nazi hunters chase down 50 Auschwitz war criminals

In their search for justice that has endured for decades, the biggest challenge Nazi hunters face is time. The knowledge that war criminals are escaping prosecution through death by natural causes means their task has never been more pressing.

On Monday, German state police arrested a 93-year-old man accused of being a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Hans Lipschis is the first suspect to be facing charges as part of a drive launched earlier this year to track down 50 suspected Auschwitz guards who are believed to be living in Germany.

Most of those involved in the murder of about 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and still alive will now be in their 90s, a ripe old age for people who carried out one the most heinous crimes in the history of humanity.

“Someday there will be no more Nazi criminals to go after and then our organization will shut down. But until then, we will exhaust all investigation possibilities.”

so now that VE day is passed, gonna be posting a lot about post-war europe and the immediate and long term effects of the war on the people, the landscape and the politics.

we’re in for a thrilling ride of anguish, torment and terror in a virtually lawless land completely decimated by war. BE PREPARED.