Nazi hunters say German judge blocking search for 'Dr Death'

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Simon Wiesenthal Centre accused a German judge on Monday of blocking the search for the world's most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, Aribert Heim, also known as "Dr. Death."

"Judge Hans-Richard Neerforth, who is in charge of the case at the Baden-Baden court systematically obstructs all investigations that would enable German police to track down Doctor Aribert Heim," said Efraim Zuroff, who heads the Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem.

"For some reason, Judge Neerforth has opposed several means of verification, as for example tapping the telephone of this criminal's ex-wife," he told AFP.

"A bank account of this criminal has been found and his family is not touching it, which would suggest its owner is still alive," Zuroff charged.

...