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Article: Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies at 96.(Biography)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 20, 2005
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Byline: Ron Grossman
On May 9, 1945, a virtual skeleton of a concentration camp survivor handed some U.S. troops a crumpled note carrying a message neither they nor the world wanted to hear.
During a World War II internment in the notorious Mauthausen camp in Austria, Simon Wiesenthal had secretly kept a list of the Nazis who ran it. "There is nothing more important for you to see," Wiesenthal said, pressing the first of what would be his long lists of Nazi murderers upon the bewildered soldiers who thought him too frail to live.
After his death Tuesday in his Vienna home, world leaders saluted the life and work of Wiesenthal, who is credited ...