Ladislav Niznansky



Ladislav Niznansky was on trial in Munich last week to answer charges of war crimes committed in 1945. Niznansky (now 86) was the commander of a Nazi unit in Slovakia. In January and February 1945 this unit massacred 164 civilians across three villages. He himself is said to have shot 20.

At the trial last week none of the witnesses could remember what Nazinsky's role in the massacre was. Thus, on Friday he was allowed to walk free.

The trial is set to continue for a number of months but a conviction now looks very unlikely. General opinion is that the war itself was to blame for this massacre, as opposed to any one particular individual.

http://www.toytownmunich.com/archive...niznansky.html

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_...es+in+Slovakia

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And

Nazi war criminal escapes Costa Brava police search


Investigators believe that Aribert Heim, a concentration camp doctor, now 91, who injected hundreds of prisoners with lethal cocktails at Mauthausen in Austria, may have already fled to the Costa del Sol, in southern Spain, or Denmark, according to local press reports.



Dr Heim, known for performing surgery without anaesthesia and for timing prisoners' deaths with a watch, is regarded as the second most-wanted former Nazi by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, after Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's righthand man.

A court trying him in his absence in 1979 said Heim "wallowed in the fear of death suffered by his victims" while performing hideous operations on fully conscious prisoners.

It was revealed Monday that prosecutors had gained access to Heim`s bank accounts in Berlin, containing more than $1 million in savings and other assets. In 2001, Heim reportedly asked the German tax authorities to reimburse capital gains tax because he was living abroad. (??)


http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworl...593885,00.html

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/e...r_Aribert_Heim

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