Probe sought into ex-Nazi death squad members

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive, and is pushing the German government for an investigation.

The centre’s top Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, said that in September he sent the German justice and interior ministries a list of 76 men and four women who served in the so-called Einsatzgruppen.

Mr Zuroff narrowed down the list of possible suspects by choosing the youngest from a list of 1,100 known to his organisation from an estimated 3,000 members of the death squads.