Stop the week: Last word . . .
1908-2005, Nazi hunter
Simon Wiesenthal was instrumental in the identification and arrest of some 3,000 war criminals. The most famous of these was Adolf Eichmann, who turned the mass killing of Jews into an organised industry.
Wiesenthal established the Jewish Historical Documentation centre on his release from the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945. His purpose was to ensure that “no Nazi murderer, however old he may be, will be allowed to die in peace”. Yet he did not feel that the importance of his work rested only on bringing criminals to justice.
“It is important for criminals to know that they are not forgotten,” he said. “Even 40 years after they committed their crimes, and even though they are thousands of miles from the scene of their crimes, they should not feel safe.”
He established his headquarters in Austria quite deliberately. “If you want to study malaria,” he