WAR CRIMES

Doctor of Death

Inside the search for the world's most-wanted Nazi. An on-scene report.

By Joe Contreras | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jul 17, 2008 | Updated: 1:20  p.m. ET Jul 17, 2008

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  • Posted By: findmyguns @ 02/04/2009 10:21:09 PM

    time for you Nazi-hunters to give it up. Come on, it's all over, it's been over. it last guy died in 92 !! Get your resume up-dated...

  • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/20/2008 7:13:47 PM

    History Man,

    I picked up on all of it but I was also confused. You will notice in some of my reply posts where I commented on the confusion and convolusion and questioned his cognizence? This is part of what I was questioning as well as the credibility of his stated or claimed identity.

    • Posted By: HistoryMan006 @ 07/21/2008 11:28:00 AM

      Thanks for the reply. I was kind of hoping to get a response from Dr. Whatever Heydrich. So I was pleasantly surprised to see your reply . I do agree with you that Dr. Heydrich, his claimed identity, and his credibility do seem confused, perhaps arbitrary. But perhaps that was part of his plan.?? Also, the Germanic people have contributed much to the betterment of humanity but the problem with the Nazis is that they went far overboard in their treatment of humanity. I still have a good friend in Germany. When I visited Germany many years ago, I found most Germans to be friendly and compassionate humans. Unfortunately, most people in the US only know what is written in the 'official' history books. Germany came very close to winning not only WWI but WWII as well. Had Germany won even WWI, the history books would be very different today. Thanks for your reply to my comments. Would like to communicate more, but gtg to work. :) Will check tonight if possible for any additional replies.

  • Posted By: bjc20mrg07 @ 07/21/2008 7:40:40 AM

    that guy is sick even though it happened so long ago its a crime and a crime should have a punishment and i do believe in Karma and his time will come God always watches!

  • Posted By: XYZ Ungeloest @ 07/17/2008 9:54:33 PM

    Crimes against humanity--no matter when or where they occurred, or by whomever committed--must never be forgotten or pardoned. If Heim is still alive, let him find no peace wherever he is.

    A former German citizen, ashamed of Germany's Nazi past.

    • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/20/2008 11:16:39 PM

      "Ungeloest" = unbound/unfettered or setfree in German.
      Empfanget Ihr noch Schmerz>? Diesen Ereignissen war fuer mehr als sechzig Jahren zuende..........

    • Posted By: rec19724u @ 07/18/2008 12:25:24 PM

      "I swore to never be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
      We must always take sides, Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim, silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

      Elie Wiesel- author of Night
      To the former German citizen, ashamed of Germany's Nazi past- MAY GOD BLESS YOU!

      • Posted By: jasaahae @ 07/19/2008 6:06:10 PM

        Nice speech from Elie Wiesel, however where was Elie the jew when his jewish people were forcibly stealing Palestinian land and mass mudering thousands upon thousands of innocent Palestinians in Palestine?

        Where was he? I bet he was celbrating in private.

        There is a very clear reason why most of the world is hostile towards the jewish people. Such sentiments do not exist without reason.

        Until justice comes to Palestine, the world will never be a peaceful place for the jews.

  • Posted By: harleybill203 @ 07/17/2008 8:04:14 PM

    This is rediculous. War ended over 60 years ago and to keep spending money to locate and punish persons who at the time were serving their country and doing what their leaders and commanders ordered them to do is rediculous. My dad survived PEARL HARBOR and WWII but he did not hate Germans or Japs after the war. I also served in Vietnam and I do not hate the veterans of the VietCong or North Vietnamese. When wars are over we need to get past them. How many people has Isreal killed in all the wars they had to fight over the years. Noone is calling them war criminals. All the old nazis are already close to death so why not just leave them alone and let them live out their lives.

    • Posted By: rec19724u @ 07/18/2008 12:35:45 PM

      It's really unperceivable how we live in a society who's attitudes are very often, "It happened, get over it".
      As though there should be no accountability, that to me, is really what's rediculous!

      • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/20/2008 10:49:50 PM

        It happened Get over it! ......It's time to properly educate......Your'e type of reasoning only perpetuates violence...or haven't you learned that yet? Apparently not and you won't until you die I'm sure which hopefully won't be to long...who needs hate and war mongering types anyway?

  • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/20/2008 12:49:18 AM

    Because everything that was done was done for a purpose. And believe it or not you and all of us today are benefiting greatly from many of those things that took place in those concentration camps.
    Do you honestly believe as the propaganda has been spewed for so long that those experiments were purely sadistic or conducted for no purpose or that the results of which were completey ignored by medical science at the end of the war? The Americans pounced on them and they are/were scoured and researched and applied immediatly to medical science as was so much German technology that was so far advanced. Medical science owes infinite debt to the Germans and so do many of us for what was learned by Mengele and others in Auscwitz and elsewhere and many of us would not even be here if it were not for it. You need to do your research and not buy so much propaganda.......

    • Posted By: hasiel @ 07/20/2008 7:38:36 PM

      Wow, herr kurtdermensch, you are one weird dude!

      • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/20/2008 9:55:30 PM

        Baseless and childish lashing out. Can you reasonably and intelligently refute anything I have stated? Especially with anything other than name calling or Jewish Rehtoric and/or western propaganda? (which are effectively one in the same)
        Why don't you tell the people where the English language comes from? or when was Germany a major and significant colonial power and what holdings did it have? What is the origins of the British people? What was the Kaiser's Archaipelago? Who invented the Combustion engine,Diesel engine, Motor car, Jet plane, Liquid fuel rocket, Car radios,
        Whole space program, and moon landing, all the myriad things that came from it that are too exponential to number. The Saturn five Rocket is one of the Scientific wonders of the world. The Pharmacuetical industry that we are talking about is centered in the Tuetonic world. Germany and Switzerland and Austria Engineer and produce tha vast majority of the lifesaving medical drugs of the world or did for the longest time as well as the finest quality engineered vehicles and most things as German engineers are world renound. Why don't are children in school know anything about Germany? It has effectively been written out of history when in reality it is second only to the Greco-Roman influence as the most influencial in the western world. Infact thereare only 2 dominant influences in the western world and those are it.
        The indo-European languages are even divided into two branches: The Romance/Latin/Roman and the German/Tuetonic of which English is the very first step or wrung.
        How is it that nobody knows that? oops! Just an oversight I guess.....

    • Posted By: hasiel @ 07/20/2008 7:37:29 PM

      wow, you are one weird dude!

  • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/20/2008 9:27:27 PM

    Baseless and childish lashing out. Can you reasonably or intelligently refute anything I have stated?

  • Posted By: SilentAidUS @ 07/18/2008 7:20:17 PM

    From Dr. Jacques Anthony Reinhard Heydrich PLUSS, Administrator, Silent Help America. Cases like those of Dr. Heim (who my organization wholeheartedly wishes to aid) were common. Many so-called "War Criminals" escaped "through the cracks," often with the help of the American or British Security Services, or with the help of the Vatican. For this, see Jim Marrs's very recent book, "The Rise of the Fourth Reich" (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2008). Now, being of no great use, they have very unfairly been pushed "into the Cold." If, by the way, any of the readers of my comments was the individual who anonymously called my phone today and was threateningly upset by Silent America's stance, good! Publicity of any kind is just what we at Silent Help America thrive upon. Thank you. For Silent Help America, Dr. Jacques Anthony Reinhard Heydrich PLUSS, Ph.D., glenlad31@verizon.net or 1-201-343-4990.

    • Posted By: HistoryMan006 @ 07/20/2008 1:01:17 PM

      Very interesting is part of the name you have chosen. As is well known, but obviously not picked up by anyone else, is the name of SS Gruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydirch ( 1904 - 1942), aka as 'Hangman Heydrich', or 'The Blond Beast'. Heydrich was one of the, if not the, principle planner of Hitler's Final Solution. Also, I noticed that PLUSS includes the SS of which Heydrich was a member. Heydrich was assassinated by Czech partisans (Free Czechs) in 1942. The Nazis retaliated by liquidating all males over the age of 16 in The Town of Lidice and razing the town itself. My own position is that Dr. Heim is over 90 years old. I would hope that my taxdollars are not funding the search for some guy who has eluded the ---- for over 50 years. There are many more pressing problems that need to be addressed than the search and capture of a 90 year old 'alleged' criminal by some one who has nothing better to do than waste his time and lots and lots of money over a cause that ended in 1945.

    • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/20/2008 1:48:18 AM

      Enter Your CommentAgain, your posts appear insensible and somewhat convelute. I don't get the full sense of them. I question your cognizence.

  • Posted By: gommy goomy @ 07/18/2008 6:57:39 AM

    How old is this "Nazi" guy? And how much is this guy spending on chasing him down? It's got to be tough when your job is hunting down Nazis. Espescially when 99.999999999999999999 of them are DEAD. Kinda like working at Time, or Newsweek. GOD will meet out JUSTICE, This guy will get what's coming to him. I realize that nobody's gonna pay anybody to go around saying that, but running around the world looking for 90 year old Nazis? Truly a story fit for Newsweek. How's that advertizing money doing, bye the way. Idiots.

    • Posted By: archmsu @ 07/19/2008 1:54:41 AM

      Your an Idiot! The Nazis are the most vile human beings to walk the earth, they should hang him when they find him. You should study your history......................

      • Posted By: HistoryMan006 @ 07/20/2008 12:11:58 PM

        Actually, the nazis were not the most vile to ever walk the earth. Archmsu - Are you ignorant? You should study history yourself and will find out that first off, Stalin, was much worse than Hitler. Stalin and his communists were responsible for many, many, many, millions more deaths than Hitler and the Nazis. Obviously, Hitler was a very bad man but there were many throughout history that were just as bad or worse than Hitler and the Nazis. Did you know that that there is a thriving religion today (it has existed for the past 1,500 years) that is responsible for the massacre of millions of innocent men, women and children, just because they were not of that religion? That religion is doing very well today. I think you and the world would be wise to try to stop this religion for the masscare of innocent people which still continues to butcher people today.

  • Posted By: Tonya Herschfus @ 07/20/2008 6:49:26 AM

    I wish Eifraim Zuroff well in his search. I believe that he is right. We are running out of time. If some sort of closer can come of this horrible situation, then it is so worth it for those that are still haunted by such an unspeakable crime. My son is a grandson of a surviver. I am proud to be his mother.
    Tonya Herschfus

  • Posted By: SilentAidUS @ 07/18/2008 1:00:51 PM

    From Dr. Jacques Anthony Reinhard Heydrich PLUSS, Ph.D., Administrator, Silent Help America Organization: The Silent Help America Organization has offered a cash monetary reward, through our own channels and contacts, to any individual or group who aids in the safe-guarding of Dr. Aribert Heim. We do NOT recognize any warrants, National or International, issued against Dr. Heim. Nor do we exclude the use of force--exercised legally and legitimately--to protect Dr. Heim. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has, of course, been notified as a courtesy. "Our Honor is Our Loyalty!" Dr. Jacques Anthony Reinhard Heydrich PLUSS, Ph.D., Administrator, Silent Help America, glenlad31@verizon.net or (U.S.) 1-201-343-4990.

    • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/20/2008 1:45:08 AM

      Sir
      Your posts are confusing and conveluted. I didn't get the sense of any of it. It was so much Bar Bar to me....I don't know what you are trying to convey and as an educated man with an IQ of 180 I suspect and it is likely that others are not getting it either. Although I may be presuming to that end.

  • Posted By: Carlie02 @ 07/20/2008 12:24:37 AM

    I can't believe that anyone would think it's a waste of time or resources to bring these vile creatures to justice. I know that God will even the score, but survivors deserve some sense of satisfaction, so I hope they capture the scum....or at least make his final years miserable. What sort of monster does it take to gain satisfaction from injecting gasoline into the heart of another living human being?

  • Posted By: mvd5 @ 07/19/2008 10:01:34 PM

    What a waste of time. To me, there is no proof without DNA. There is nothing really to confirm that the love-child daughter was really the daughter. Seems a bit late to pursue such a thing. Resources would be better spent on making the world a better place today for all kinds of different people. Also, not everyone who has German ancestry is a Nazi.

  • Posted By: mvd5 @ 07/19/2008 9:57:22 PM

    To me, there is no case without DNA proof. The story was a waste of time.

  • Posted By: mrzoid @ 07/19/2008 8:00:54 PM

    Searching for Nazis? Im not sure that is the best use of resources, not to mention, if you havent caught someone for 60+ years, then i say they're too quick for you, even at 90yrs old.

  • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/19/2008 7:46:09 PM

    The events that took place in western Europe some 60 to 70 years ago rank about 3 on trhe scale of Human atrocities in Human history.
    Stalin killed 3 to 5 times as many.
    Mao killed 20 or more times as many?
    The Italians killed ethiopians and others wholesale with nothing but spears and knifes to defend themselves and trhe Colonial rule ofb the Europians that lasted for Hundredes of years and included the period of the international slave trade was some of the bloodiest in Human history for the British, French, Portugese,Dutch,Spanish and white slavery and the trade of females took place in Europe as a big business also. Ganghus Kahn was responsible for the death of 10% of the worlds population of his time.
    I'm just naming a few on the very, very long nomenclature of Human history to put into perspective the fact that these events that took place just recently and because they directly involved both JEWS and Americans are made to seem and us to believe were the worst and most horriffic in Human history....In reality, they were quite tame "Humane Society" style, Euthinizing and state controlled activities compared to the unrestrained and uncontrolled and field command, at the behest of any field commander activities that took place under the previously mentioned.

  • Posted By: jasaahae @ 07/19/2008 6:02:32 PM

    How come jewish war criminals are not being actively pursued and brought to justice? It seems a bit strange that the jews in the Apartheid state of Israel (occupied Palestine) are mass mudering thousands upon thousand of innocent Palestinians and no one in the world seems to be doing anything about it?

    Where is the justice? If we want to be fair and honest with ourselves, no country in the world would have allowed the unwanted jews from europe to travel to Palestine and take over that country from the native Palestinian Arabs who have continuously lived there for millenia.

    Until these so-called jewish nazi-hunters state the truth about israel, I believe nothing will change with regards to the world's hostility towards the jews. The jews cannot be selective when it comes to human liberty and justice.

    Long Live Palestine and the Great Palestinian people !!!

  • Posted By: jasaahae @ 07/19/2008 6:01:47 PM

    How come jewish war criminal are not being actively pursued and brought to justice? It seems a bit strange that the jews in the Apartheid state of Israel (occupied Palestine) are mass mudering thousands upon thousand of innocent Palestinians and no one in the world seems to be doing anything about it?

    Where is the justice? If we want to be fair and honest with ourselves, no country in the world would have allowed the unwanted jews from europe to travel to Palestine and take over that country from the native Palestinian Arabs who have continuously lived there for millenia.

    Until these so-called jewish nazi-hunters state the truth about israel, I believe nothing will change with regards to the world's hostility towards the jews. The jews cannot be selective when it comes to human liberty and justice.

    Long Live Palestine and the Great Palestinian people !!!

  • Posted By: cwwhite @ 07/19/2008 2:17:41 PM

    Wow !! NO comments on the contents. The reporting and assemby of this report is by far the worst I have read. A new profession is much needed by the writer.

  • Posted By: MarinaO @ 07/18/2008 3:12:45 PM

    Just because crimes were committed a long time ago and the perpetrators are now old is no reason to allow criminals to go free. Those guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes must be brought to justice in criminal courts of justice - be they Communists or nazis or something else. The trouble with Mr. Zuroff is that he is running out of Nazis and seems to be trying to create new monsters out of whole cloth. As I recall De. Mengele was the "doctor of death". Now we have a new one. Why was this man Heim not named or charged right after World War II when memories were fresh and witnesses alive? Many trials were held then. If Heim (unheard of until now!) did all the incredible things that Zuroff describes, he would have been dealt with at the Nuremburg trials, one would think. Zuroff's accusations seem based on hearsay and a vivid imagination, more like soemthing out of a fantastic movie. A skull of a Jew with perfect teeth on his desk? Who said so? How would this person know it was the skull of a Jew, anyhow? Nazis did perforom horrific experiments on human guinea pigs, but these experiments pretended to have some medical use. Human beings were denied their humanity, their rights as human beings for the sake of perverted experiments.

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