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Most wanted Nazi charged in Hungary

July 18, 2012 09:46

By

Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

The world's most wanted Nazi war criminal has been arrested in Hungary.

Prosecutors in the country said Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, 97, was charged with war crimes early this morning.

Accused of complicity in sending 15,700 Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz while serving as a police officer in the then-Slovakian city of Kosice, Csizsik-Csatary was tracked down by Nazi-hunters from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

After escaping a war crimes sentence in 1948, Csizsik-Csatary moved to Canada and was only tracked down again in 1997.

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