Accused Nazi war criminals stand to attention in 1946 in a camp the Germans would once have managed themselves. Photo / 123rfBeale said conditions awaiting the international investigators travelling through Lithuania to find evidence about suspected Nazi war criminals were “like stepping back 50 years”. Nazi hunters provided a list of about 50 suspected Nazi war criminals living in New Zealand during the 1990s, but no charges were laid. Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff was adamant New Zealand had become home to suspected Nazi war criminals after WWII. Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal dedicated his life to try to bring Nazi war criminals to justice in the decades after WWII.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 17, 2026 17:33 UTC