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Article: Why I wish Nazi-hunters well in search for death camp fiend
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- August 8, 2008
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Nazi-hunters from the Simon Weisenthal Centre are, apparently,
close to tracking down the war criminal Aribert Heim in South
America. Now, I have mixed feelings about the Simon Weisenthal
Centre. Whereas we should all applaud its pursuit of Nazi war
criminals, its neglect of Soviet war criminals, whose crimes are
comparable with those of the Nazis, most especially in the Baltic
states, suggest that it is more interested in Jewish victimhood than
Jewish culpability.
This is understandable. But it should remind us not to accept the
Weisenthal Centre on its own assessment of itself - a truth, of
course, which applies to us all.
I certainly wish it well in its pursuit of Heim, in the year of
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