As these aging war criminals die off. the likelihood. that the survivors of the Holocaust will ever see the vast majority cf their tormentors brought to justice decreases. According to Rabbi Marvin Hier. founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Los Angeles. about 10.000 former Nazzs who are wanted are living in the United States. Only a handful of these former Nazis have been identified and deported to stand trial in the country where they committed their offenses. For the past 40 years these socalled quiet neighbors have lived without any real fear that they would be brought to account for their part in the massacre of the Jews. As these men advance in age. the whole question of deporting them to stand trial is likely to become moot. That the United States finds itself in this position today is embarrassing. After World War II we. had the opportunity to prosecute these men. Instead we gave them a haven. That Klaus Barbie and other wellknown murderers worked for U.S. intelligence agencies is a documented fact. That we made inadequate checks into the backgrounds of those who immigrated to the United States and even facilitated the escape from Germany of war criminals is a documented fact. Nazi hunters long ago despaired of bringing all the war criminals to justice. Numerically speaking not even a
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Generalization about former Nazis living as quiet neighbors.