LUDWIGSBURG (GERMANY) - Tucked away in the picturesque German city of Ludwigsburg, a tiny team of investigators tracks the last surviving Nazi war criminals across the globe and through the better part of a century, in an urgent race against time. For decades after the war, the German government and justice system showed little haste to track down many of those involved in the organised mass murder. Many German Nazis fled to South America immediately after the war, among them one of the main architects of the Holocaust Adolf Eichmann, who landed in Buenos Aires. - 1.7 million files -Many have criticised the comparatively small number of Nazi war criminals ever brought to justice. One million seven hundred thousand cardboard files are stored in rigorous alphabetical order in rows of imposing metal cupboards -- a unique full-size database of Nazi criminals and details of their acts.

Source: Bangkok Post May 21, 2018 03:45 UTC