By Rick NoackWhen local prosecutors in northeastern Germany made an announcement about 96-year old defendant Hubert Zafke this week, it appeared like standard procedure. We could have found so many more suspects,” Jens Rommel, the chief prosecutor of the German Nazi crimes agency, told The Washington Post on Friday. Since the 1960s, the Nazi crimes investigations office has shrunk from 120 employees to now 20. “A number of countries have had specialized offices charged with bringing to justice the perpetrators of Nazi crimes, but these efforts have diminished significantly or halted altogether in recent years,” said White. Between 2015 and 2016, the number of cases Rommel handed over to local prosecutors declined by more than 50 percent.

Source: National Post September 02, 2017 01:26 UTC