While the last of the Nazi ranks are living in retirement villages, Nazi hunter Ephraim Zuroff knows his own time is limited. “Operation Last Chance,” where money changes hands for information and clues leading to the capture of the last surviving Nazis, is Zuroff’s last chance as well. He doesn’t deny that his job will soon be over, and is running a marathon against the clock to track down the last of the men who, after sending so many to their deaths, thought they could live their lives out in peace.
The old man’s name is Klaus Faber a native of Holland who volunteered for the SS in 1940. An advocate of Aryan ideologies he served in the German intelligence services and the Gestapo. When this elderly gentleman was stationed at the Westerbork concentration camp in Holland he was responsible for the deportation of the Jews of Holland from the Westerbork camp straight to the crematoria.
Klaus Faber is only fifth on Ephraim Zuroff’s list of wanted Nazi war criminals. Zuroff is one of the few remaining professional Nazi hunters a profession that is rapidly approaching extinction. Zuroff is the director of the Jerusalem branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center the last active Nazi-hunting organization in existence.
Zuroff has named this last ditch attempt to capture Nazis “Operation Last Chance” which reflects his future as well as those of the criminals. After thirty years of intensive Nazi hunting Zuroff does not deny the fact that his job will be over in two or three years.
“There are those who call it the ‘biological solution’ ” he says. “At first I was stunned by the fact that these criminals live to such an old age but later on I realized that people without a conscience simply live longer. They have no sources of stress to shorten their lives.”
Create a free account to keep reading.
