History 3427E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Imre Finta, Serge And Beate Klarsfeld, Simon Wiesenthal
22 Apr 2016
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Held a strong hitler and nazi party following. As nazi"s began to show up after the defeat of germany, the people of this region began to offer assistance. Once over the border they made their way to genoa then to central and south america. Argentina (gets a lot of attention because a lot of the most prolific nazi war criminals ended up there) Possible that ex concentration camp guards could have been amongst them. Established institutions across the world to find nazi criminals. Klaus barbie responsible for the deportations of many french jews. It ends up that he had been wrongfully identified. Stands trial in germany and appeals the guilty conviction, in the midst of his appeal he died a free and innocent man in the eyes of the law. Canada had a really poor reaction to attempting to find these nazi war criminals believed things should be left in europe and that it happened so long ago.
