Report: Most wanted Nazi tracked down in Budapest
British newspaper The Sun said it has tracked down the
world’s most wanted Nazi war criminal — who helped send 15,700 Jews to their
deaths at Auschwitz — in Budapest, Hungary.
The paper said Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, 97, who served
as a police commander in charge of a Jewish ghetto in Kassa, Hungary during
World War Two, fled Kassa after the was and was sentenced to death for war
crimes in his absence in Czechoslovakia in 1948.
He created a new identity and worked as an art dealer in
Canada, but disappeared again 15 years ago when his cover was blown and the
government began to build a case against him.
According to documents uncovered the Simon Wiesenthal
Center in Jerusalem, Csizsik-Csatary took pleasure in beating women with a whip
he carried on his belt, and also forced them to dig ditches in frozen ground
with their bare hands.
The documents also revealed that he made dissenting Jews
take up stress positions for hours, hit them with a dog lead and oversaw a
shoot-on-sight policy if they tried to escape.
Nazi hunters from the Wiesenthal Center, which recently
placed Csizsik-Csatary at the top of its most wanted list, provided The Sun
with information regarding his possible whereabouts.
The Sun said its reporters tracked him down to a
two-bedroom apartment in Budapest.
"Once our team found Csizsik-Csatary they were able
to establish he was the Nazi collaborator. We confronted him at the flat where
he had been living quietly among families unaware of his chilling past,"
The Sun reported.
According to the report, Csizsik-Csatary, who speaks
English with a Canadian accent after decades living in Montreal and Toronto,
answered the door in just socks and underpants.
"When we asked if he could justify his past, he
looked shocked and stammered 'No, no. Go away.' Questioned about his
deportation case in Canada he answered angrily in English: 'No, no. I don’t
want to discuss it.' Our reporter asked: 'Do you deny doing it? A lot of people
died as a result of your actions.' He replied: 'No I didn’t do it, go away from
here,' before slamming the door," The Sun reported.
During the legal proceedings against him in Canada,
Csizsik-Csatary admitted to taking part in the transportation of Jews to
Auschwitz, but claimed that his role was "limited."
After studying dossiers of evidence disclosed by The Sun,
Hungary's Deputy Chief Prosecutor Dr Jeno Varga said: "There is an ongoing
investigation. Prosecutors are studying the information submitted."
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