Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died

As the FAZ reports on September 20th 2005 the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died in Vienna at the age of 96.

Wiesenthal was arrested 1941 by the NS security service (Sicherheitsdienst SD) and until his disentanglement in 1945 he survived twelve concentration camps. In order to hunt down free and unchallenged Nazi criminals he found the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He tracked around 1,110 Nazi criminals down and took them to court. Over 6,000 cases were investigated based on his information. The most important arrests were those of SS Leader Rajakowitsch, Eichmann's representative in the Netherlands, Franz Stangl, commander of the extermination camp of Treblinka, and Karl Silberbauer, who was in charge of the arrest of Anne Frank.