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The Last Nazi Hunter closes in on Dr Death
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The Scotsman
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July 14, 2008
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THE unrelenting rain of a Patagonian downpour drills through
humid air to batter the lace- curtained windows of a modest chalet.
It slices through the smoke billowing from the chimney, bounces off
the windscreens of the cars belonging to the couple within, and
terrorises their dog as it pads, sodden, around the garden.
It is a standard suburban scene, replicated throughout the
Chilean port of Puerto Montt, but one whose every detail is
intensely evaluated by a 59-year-old man who has travelled thousands
of miles from home to sit outside it.
Efraim Zuroff is a Nazi hunter. And the couple who own the chalet
with its lace curtains, dog and chimney smoke are Waltraud and Ivan
Diharce, the ...