Nazi hunters seek to smoke out "Dr Death" in Chile

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Nazi hunters are hoping to flush out the most notorious member of the Third Reich still believed to be alive, Aribert Heim, known as "Dr Death", in southern Chile -- with an advertising campaign. Efraim Zuroff, Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem, holds up a document with pictures of Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim during a news conference at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in this November 27, 2007 file photo. (REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci/Files) Heim, who passed his 94th birthday on June 28 if he is still alive, documented the hundreds of victims he himself murdered and tortured at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War Two. The Nazi hunters believe he is hiding out in the Patagonia region of southern Chile, also home to his daughter. "In the... [read full story]