Simon wiesenthal nazi hunter

Individual who tracks down and gathers information on Nazis and Nazi collaborators

This article is about the occupation. For the film, see Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story. For the book, see The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi.

A Nazi hunter is an individual who tracks down and gathers information on alleged former Nazis, or SS members, and Nazi collaborators who were involved in the Holocaust, typically for use at trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Prominent Nazi hunters include Simon Wiesenthal,^[1]Tuviah Friedman, Serge Klarsfeld, Beate Klarsfeld, Ian Sayer, Yaron Svoray, Elliot Welles, and Efraim Zuroff.^[2]

History

With the onset of the Cold War following World War II, both the Western Allies of World War II and the Soviet Union sought out former Nazi scientists and operatives for programs such as Operation Paperclip and Operation Osoaviakhim.

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