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Nazi list sent to authorities

THE Simon Wiesenthal Centre revealed yesterday it has sent a list of 80 nazis to German authorities and asked them to investigate.

Efraim Zuroff said he had named 76 men and four women who worked for the Einsatzgruppen, which followed the German armies east as they invaded Poland and the Soviet Union and rounded up and shot Jews in captured territory.

Before the gas chambers of the “final solution” were decided on these units of police and SS officers were Nazi Germany’s main mechanism for killing Jews and Roma. Over a million Jews were murdered in the Soviet Union alone by early 1943.

“In the death camps the act of murder was carried out by a very small number of people, but murder in the Einsatzgruppen was carried out individually,” Mr Zuroff said.

“Almost every person in the Einsatzgruppen was a hands-on murderer.”

He has asked Germany to locate and prosecute the named individuals.

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