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This is a list of the last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes, based on wanted lists published by Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Beginning in 2002, Zuroff produced an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which from 2004 to 2018 included a list of the ...
Jakiw "Jakob" Palij (Yah-keev PAH’-lee; [1] Ukrainian: Яків Палій; 16 August 1923 – 10 January 2019) was a Polish-born Ukrainian who served in the SS and as a guard in the Nazi Trawniki concentration camp during World War II. [2] He eventually became an American citizen and lived most of his life in the United States until he was ...
John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk; Ukrainian: Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк; 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012) was a Ukrainian-American who served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. [2] Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s ...
Josef Rudolf Mengele ([ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II.Nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel), he performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp, where he was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be murdered in ...
Alois Brunner. Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – c. December 2001 or c. 2010) was an Austrian officer who held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) during World War II. Brunner played a significant role in the implementation of the Holocaust through rounding up and deporting Jews in occupied Austria, Greece, Macedonia, France, and Slovakia.
Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German mid-level SS commander in the SS police force (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 men of the German SS ...
This list has been divided into four sections for reasons of length: List of Nazis (A–E) : from Gustav Abb to Hanns Heinz Ewers (~ 247 names) List of Nazis (F–K) : from Arnold Fanck to Kurt Küttner (~ 268 names) List of Nazis (L–R) : from Bodo Lafferentz to Bernhard Rust (~ 232 names) List of Nazis (S–Z) : from Ernst Sagebiel to Fritz ...
Josef Schütz (16 November 1920 – 13 April 2023), known in the German press as Josef S., [1] was a Lithuanian-born German Nazi concentration camp guard who was stationed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In June 2022, at the age of 101, Schütz was handed a five-year sentence after a criminal trial for complicity in war crimes during ...