CRIME

“J’accuse”, from the book of Simon Wiesenthal, entitled “KZ. Mauthausen” (KZ. Mauthausen)

Locating and prosecuting Nazi war criminals and collaborators, including Jewish functionaries of ghettos, labour and concentration camps, was perhaps Simon Wiesenthal's most important mission after the war. In 1945, only days after his liberation, Wiesenthal had already compiled a list for U.S. military authorities of 91 war criminals that he remembered by name from the ghettos and camps where he had been held during the war.
The registration of war criminals, and the search for survivors who could testify against them, were two of Wiesenthal's central goals during his work in the DP camps.

 

 

 

 

“J’accuse”, from the book of Simon Wiesenthal, entitled “KZ. Mauthausen” (KZ. Mauthausen)