Nazi hunter says top war criminal may be in Spain

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Nazi hunter says top war criminal may be in Spain
Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:25 PM ET


JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Austrian doctor accused of killing hundreds of inmates in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two may be in Spain, the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center said on Saturday.

Aribert Heim, 91, known as "Doctor Death", worked in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and killed hundreds of inmates by lethal injection and torture, the center said.

"As far as we know he is in Spain. There is speculation he might have left," Efraim Zuroff, the center's chief Nazi hunter, told Reuters in Jerusalem.

He declined to elaborate further, but German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said investigators in Madrid had discovered that a relative of Heim's had transferred 300,000 euros over the past five years to a family friend living near Girona in northeastern Spain.

The investigators suspect that some of this money may have been used to support Heim, it added, without giving any sources.


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