Diplomats gather for memorial service

Diplomats, activists and political leaders were among hundreds who gathered today to bid farewell to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to honour his decades-long pursuit of the Second World War’s most heinous criminals.

Hundreds filled the spare hall at Vienna’s Central Cemetery to capacity in tearless tribute to the 96-year-old activist who died in his sleep yesterday. His dark shrouded coffin lay in the centre. His friends, Austria’s leaders and the media gathered around.