Poster campaign to round up last Nazi war criminals

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has launched a poster campaign in several German cities appealing for help in tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals.

About 2,000 posters depicting the entrance gate of the Auschwitz concentration camp were put up in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne, asking the public to come forward with information that may lead to the arrest of Nazis seven decades after the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

Efraim Zuroff, the US- based Jewish centre’s top Nazi hunter, told reporters in Berlin: “The passage of time in no way diminishes the crimes.”