BELGRADE, Serbia - A leading Nazi hunter urged Serbia on Monday to seek the extradition of three World War II war-crimes suspects and blasted Austria and Hungary for failing to help bring two of them to justice.
Efraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said at a news conference with Serbian officials that he was helping them provide evidence against Peter Egner, who lives in the United States, Milivoj Asner, who lives in Austria, and Sandor Kepiro of Hungary.
Egner allegedly served in a Nazi unit that killed 17,000 civilians in Serbia during World War II. Asner is wanted for WWII atrocities against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies in Croatia.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center says Kepiro, 94, was convicted by Hungarian courts but never punished for his alleged role in Hungarian forces' killings of some 800 Jews and 400 Serbs in the wake of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia.
Asner caused a stir this summer when he was seen watching a soccer match in the Austrian city of Klagenfurt. Critics contend Austria is sheltering him.
Serbia should seek the extradition of the three "as soon as possible" because it is "a decision of great importance to bring those people to justice," Zuroff said.
Serbia's war crimes prosecutor, Vladimir Vukcevic, said that Serbia will seek the extradition of the three after collecting evidence and launching legal procedures.
"The issue in these cases is not finding the suspects, is not finding the evidence," Zuroff said. "The problem has been the lack of political will by the countries in which these people reside."
"I'm referring primarily to Austria and Hungary, and not the United States where there are serious efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice," he said.
Phone calls to the Hungarian and Austrian justice ministries went unanswered Monday evening.
Austria's Justice Ministry said this year that it is reviewing a request from Zuroff to make a fresh assessment of Asner's physical and mental state and prove he is suffering from dementia as experts have ruled in the past.
Without a new evaluation declaring him physically and mentally fit, "our hands are tied," ministry spokesman Thomas Geiblinger said at the time.
This summer, the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court to revoke Egner's American citizenship, saying he had served as a guard and interpreter with the Nazi-controlled police in Belgrade. Egner, 86, can only be extradited to Serbia if he is stripped of his U.S. citizenship.
Adlof Hitler & Winston Churchill
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What is a leadership?What the secret of the great leadership can lead a million of people to learn or condemm the way of leader run thier country. This blog is espcially to focus on two great leaders in World War 2 in Europe. By choosing Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill two totaly opposite leaders, both in what they stood fon and in the way in which they seemed to lead. The book is about thier events from 1939-1945 in German and United Kingdom during World War II. But, this blog is about Andrew Roberts opinion about the phenomenon of political and military leadership, and come to some amazing and provoking conclusion. Andrew Robert is award-winning historian and his writing about this leaders is smashing.
Adolf Hitler in Brief:
Adolf Hitler was born 1889 and allegedly died 1945. He was the son of Alois Hitler, originally born Alois Schicklgruber. Alois Schicklgruber was born 1837 the illegitimate child of Maria Ann Schicklgruber and unknown paternity. Maria Anna Schicklgruber married in 1842 to Johann George Heidler/Hiedler. She died in 1847 and her husband died in 1857. Alois Schicklgruber legally changed his name or merely started using Alois Hitler in 1876. So yes it would seem there would be no blood connection between all of the Heidler/Hiedler's and Adolf Hitler. But guess again! Alois Hitler was married three times. His first and second wives having predeceased him. His third wife was Klara Polzl the granddaughter of Johann Nepomuk Heidler a brother to Alois' stepfather Johann Georg Heidler. So they were step cousins. In 1889 she gave birth to Adolf Hitler. So the Heidler families are related on Adolf Hitler's maternal side and not paternal. Obviously Klara Polzl's mother must have been a daughter to Johann Nepomuk Heidler. More>>
Winston Churchill in Brief:
The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. He held many high posts in Liberal and Conservative governments during the first three decades of the century. Among the other countless honours and decorations he received, special mention should be made of the honorary citizenship of the United States which President Kennedy conferred on him in 1963 more..
I bought this book (Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of LeaderShip) when I was in London 23 Feb 2003 for short business trip. The cover itself can really spark your mood to have it and read it again and again. I will try my best to describe every content of this book by chapter by chapter for the reader understanding. To all readers you can have the a copy from my Amazon.com's rack (on your right.). I'm also welcome the reader to comment of Hitler and Churchill leadership with your own personal opinion.
Thank you.
Other Languages:
1. Hebrew 2. German 3. Japan 4. Indonesia
What is a leadership?What the secret of the great leadership can lead a million of people to learn or condemm the way of leader run thier country. This blog is espcially to focus on two great leaders in World War 2 in Europe. By choosing Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill two totaly opposite leaders, both in what they stood fon and in the way in which they seemed to lead. The book is about thier events from 1939-1945 in German and United Kingdom during World War II. But, this blog is about Andrew Roberts opinion about the phenomenon of political and military leadership, and come to some amazing and provoking conclusion. Andrew Robert is award-winning historian and his writing about this leaders is smashing.
Adolf Hitler in Brief:
Adolf Hitler was born 1889 and allegedly died 1945. He was the son of Alois Hitler, originally born Alois Schicklgruber. Alois Schicklgruber was born 1837 the illegitimate child of Maria Ann Schicklgruber and unknown paternity. Maria Anna Schicklgruber married in 1842 to Johann George Heidler/Hiedler. She died in 1847 and her husband died in 1857. Alois Schicklgruber legally changed his name or merely started using Alois Hitler in 1876. So yes it would seem there would be no blood connection between all of the Heidler/Hiedler's and Adolf Hitler. But guess again! Alois Hitler was married three times. His first and second wives having predeceased him. His third wife was Klara Polzl the granddaughter of Johann Nepomuk Heidler a brother to Alois' stepfather Johann Georg Heidler. So they were step cousins. In 1889 she gave birth to Adolf Hitler. So the Heidler families are related on Adolf Hitler's maternal side and not paternal. Obviously Klara Polzl's mother must have been a daughter to Johann Nepomuk Heidler. More>>
Winston Churchill in Brief:
The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. He held many high posts in Liberal and Conservative governments during the first three decades of the century. Among the other countless honours and decorations he received, special mention should be made of the honorary citizenship of the United States which President Kennedy conferred on him in 1963 more..
I bought this book (Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of LeaderShip) when I was in London 23 Feb 2003 for short business trip. The cover itself can really spark your mood to have it and read it again and again. I will try my best to describe every content of this book by chapter by chapter for the reader understanding. To all readers you can have the a copy from my Amazon.com's rack (on your right.). I'm also welcome the reader to comment of Hitler and Churchill leadership with your own personal opinion.
Thank you.
Other Languages:
1. Hebrew 2. German 3. Japan 4. Indonesia
Monday, September 15, 2008
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