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Article: Justice Department office races against time to catch Nazi war criminals from World War II.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 8, 1996
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WASHINGTON _ The stooped, old man with the thick glasses lived in an ordinary, yellow house in the suburbs of Boston. Outgoing and smart, he had worked at an encyclopedia company for years.
And in a previous life, he was a Nazi who sent Jews to their deaths.
What always strikes the nation's top Nazi hunter about World War II killers living peacefully in Detroit or Miami or Chicago is this: They seem so perfectly regular.
``I interviewed one man who was a killer _ who if you didn't know better, you would consider hiring him as a babysitter for your children,'' said Eli M. Rosenbaum, the intensely driven director of the Office of Special ...