The Sun Tracks Down Nazi War Criminal

[jimmy olsen]

Since when has The Sun been competent!? 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4429862/Sun-finds-Nazi-97-who-sent-15700-to-die-at-Auschwitz.html

The Sun finds Nazi who sent 15,700 to die
Most wanted war criminal tracked down

THE world's most wanted Nazi war criminal — who helped send 15,700 Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz — has been tracked down by The Sun.

Sadist Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, 97, was a police commander in charge of a Jewish ghetto in Kassa, Hungary, during World War Two.

He took pleasure in beating women with a whip he carried on his belt, according to devastating documents uncovered by the Nazi-hunters at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem.

Csizsik-Csatary also forced them to dig ditches in frozen ground with their bare hands, made dissenting Jews take up stress positions for hours, hit them with a dog lead and oversaw a shoot-on-sight policy if they tried to escape.

He fled Kassa — now renamed Kosice in Slovakia — after the Allied victory and was sentenced to death for war crimes in his absence in Czechoslovakia in 1948.

But Csizsik-Csatary created a new identity, turning up as an art dealer in Canada.

When his cover was blown there — in 1997 — his citizenship was revoked and the government began to build a case against him. He fled before deportation papers could be served.

For 15 years his whereabouts have been a mystery.

But a Sun team tracked him down to a two-bedroom apartment in a smart district of Budapest, Hungary.

Our investigators were given details of where he might be by the Holocaust campaigners at the Wiesenthal Centre.

The human rights organisation had been given a tip-off after launching Operation Last Chance, aimed at bringing World War Two Nazis to justice before they die.

Once our team found Csizsik-Csatary they were able to establish he was the Nazi collaborator — Number One on the Wiesenthal Centre's most wanted list. We confronted him at the flat where he had been living quietly among families unaware of his chilling past.

Csizsik-Csatary, who speaks English with a Canadian accent after decades living in Montreal and Toronto, answered the door in just socks and underpants.

When we asked if he could justify his past, he looked shocked and stammered "No, no. Go away." Questioned about his deportation case in Canada he answered angrily in English: "No, no. I don't want to discuss it." Our reporter asked: "Do you deny doing it? A lot of people died as a result of your actions."

He replied: "No I didn't do it, go away from here," before slamming the door.

The atrocities that made him the most hunted Nazi war criminal still alive were detailed by the Canadian government when it stripped him of citizenship.

The Justice Department's war crimes unit said he was a "commander" in the Royal Hungarian Police in Kassa in charge of officers who guarded the ghetto.

He supervised the drawing-up of lists of its inhabitants, conducted personal searches of Jews and confiscated valuables.

The police transferred the Jews from the ghetto to a brickyard at the end of April 1944 and loaded them on to freight trains to Auschwitz and other camps.

In a summary of its case against Csizsik-Csatary the Canadian Government stated: "For at least two transports, he was present for the embarkation, checking the Jews' names on a list." Of the approximately 12,000 Jews gathered in the brickyard and deported, just 450 survived.

During the case, Csizsik-Csatary admitted to some involvement in the "ghettoisation" of Jews and said he had played a "limited role" in the movement of Jews to the brickyard.

He also admitted handing over at least two Jews to the Germans and to attending the last mass deportation of Jews out of Kassa.

But his lawyers claimed he "did not know where the Jews were to be deported".

Before confronting him we had watched as he took a leisurely four-hour stroll through town, savouring the long life thousands exterminated in Auschwitz had been denied.

Csizsik-Csatary left his apartment dressed smartly in khaki trousers, a shirt, a grey and white checked jacket and flat cap and took a tram to a nearby shopping mall.

He browsed shops and bought a right-wing paper from a kiosk. He sat in a public seating area and casually browsed through it before a red-haired lady friend arrived to meet him.

They sat chatting and spent almost two hours in deep conversation before he left to shop for groceries.

The pensioner left the store carrying two shopping bags before returning home. He moved into his apartment just weeks ago from another flat a mile away where neighbours called him "Papa Csatary".

At the apartment his door buzzer was labelled "Smith". But behind a security door, his old mailbox had the hand-written name "Smith L Csatary".

Holocaust campaigners last night hailed our investigation and called on Hungarian prosecutors to arrest him so he can finally face justice.

Dr Efraim Zuroff, director of the Wiesenthal Centre, said time should never diminish the crimes committed in the Holocaust — or excuse those responsible from facing punishment.

He said: "Now that The Sun has found this war criminal he must be put on trial in Hungary.

"Csatary was a police commander in the ghetto of Kassa and was responsible for sending 15,700 people to death camps. He was known to be a sadist, he had a determination to round all Jews up and forcibly deport them to Poland. To achieve justice against this man will bring a degree of closure for families of the victims, for the Jewish communities of Hungary and Slovakia."

Peter Feldmajer, President of the Hungarian Jewish Community, said: "Several thousand Jewish families have felt sorrow and hurt because of this man and it would be a disgrace, for the entire Hungarian nation, if Csatary were to escape justice."

Prosecutors in Hungary were last night studying dossiers of evidence handed over by The Sun. Our investigation team met with senior prosecutor Gabor Hetenyi, who thanked us.

Deputy Chief Prosecutor Dr Jeno Varga, said: "There is an ongoing investigation. Prosecutors are studying the information submitted."

[Sheilbh]

When's the Sun ever been incompetent?

[Neil]

Wow, what a takedown.  Some 97-year old.

[katmai]

Doesn't it make you feel all warm Neil to know there is no statute of limitations on being  a douche.

[Jaron]

Let sleeping demons rest.

[Eddie Teach]

When's the Sun ever been incompetent?

During an eclipse. Wokka wokka.

[Syt]

Quite a "trackdown". As I mentioned in the Hungarian politics thread, the Simon Wiesenthal Center informed the Hungarian authorities last year. Because they were frustrated about the slow progress in the investigations by the Hungarians, they informed the press to increase pressure.

[Tamas]

He has been arrested, finally.

Basic reaction from people in my office: WTF a 97 years old? whats the point?!!

Initial report from the police say that the old guy was expecting arrest, he prepared notes for his testimony.
Also during interrogation, as the police said "his opinion toward people of a certain religion were easily recognizable" 

fucking old nazi. And the Hungarian public opinion appear to be perfectly fine with him walking away on account of his age.

I mean, he just brutally tortured a bunch of jews. What's the big deal, right?

[Martinus]

Celestial bodies are involved in tracking down nazis now?

[Martinus]

He has been arrested, finally.

Basic reaction from people in my office: WTF a 97 years old? whats the point?!!

A lot of people here think like this, too. (So does Neil). I disagree. There are crimes for which you should be hounded by the Kindly Ones until the day you die. His are of that kind.

[Syt]

Celestial bodies are involved in tracking down nazis now?

The Sun shines on the just and unjust alike.

[Viking]

When's the Sun ever been incompetent?

They were pretty competent in hacking other peoples cell phones. Journalistic competence and ethics are another issue, but when it comes to hacking somebodies mailbox The Sun are the professionals.

[Brazen]

When's the Sun ever been incompetent?

They were pretty competent in hacking other peoples cell phones. Journalistic competence and ethics are another issue, but when it comes to hacking somebodies mailbox The Sun are the professionals.

The Sun has championed investigative journalism on a scale that makes the broadsheets weep. they just don't always go about it the right way or for reasons many of us would consider in the public interest.

[jimmy olsen]

He was sentenced to death nearly sixty four years ago, it should be carried out immediately.

[Neil]

He has been arrested, finally.

Basic reaction from people in my office: WTF a 97 years old? whats the point?!!

A lot of people here think like this, too. (So does Neil). I disagree. There are crimes for which you should be hounded by the Kindly Ones until the day you die. His are of that kind.

The West disagrees.  We gave up on this sort of silliness when we let Speer the Slaver (I SUMMON HORTLUND) out of jail.  He Abu-Ghraibed a bunch of Jews back in the day, and that's a bad thing.  Still, it was 70 years ago.