Nazi War Criminals At Large

[August]

David, if you can get details about "Suspected War Criminals [Pacific Theater]", it would be a real help. See if Lt General Tsunamasa Shidei's name is there. There is little I can do sitting in India. I had sent a mail to NARA, they replied and then clammed up. There is this controversy about Indian leader Subhas Bose's death. There were several charges and one of them was that the Allies, including India, drew up a secret list of missing war criminals and Bose's name was in it. The evidence that has surfaced in recent times shows that Bose did not perish in August 1945 as was reported. I have reasons to belive that there can be some substance in the war criminals list angle.

There are many details. I have seen some classified stuff. The issue is alive and can explode any time next year. If that happens, ripples wud be felt across the world. May be you wud like to go thru this small newsclipping. Many thanks.

[August]

just found out this list on NARA site. thanks guys, one thing leads to another.

http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassifie ... files.html


01 Abs Hermann J.
01 Ahrens Hinrich Johann
01 Alquen Guenther de
01 Altenbrunn Hans Erich
01 Arlt Fritz
01 Augsburg Emil
01 Axmann Artur Werner
01 Babor Karl
01 Baganz Friedrich
01 Barbie Klaus 01
02 Barbie Klaus 02
02 Bartels Albert
02 Bartels Erich
02 Bartenstein Tischer Heinz
02 Bartmann Fritz
02 Bauer Hans
02 Bauman Josef
02 Baumert Reinhardt Willmar Helmut
02 Beck Rudolf
03 Beetz Hildegard
03 Beissner Friedrich
03 Bergel Reinhard
03 Berger Friedrich Matthias
03 Berger Gottlob
04 Berger Gottlob
04 Berger Hans
04 Bernau Guenter Hans
04 Bernhardt Johannes
04 Best Karl Rudolf Werner
04 Bickenbach Otto
04 Biederbick Andreas
04 Billmaier Kurt Heinrich Konrad
04 Binz Siegfried Erich
04 Boecker Reinhold
04 Boettcher Alfred Max
04 Boettcher Otto
05 Bohle Ernst Wilhelm
05 Bolschwing Otto von
05 Bormann Martin 01
06 Bormann Martin 02
06 Bothner Max
06 Bovensiepen Guenther
06 Bovensiepen Otto
06 Brandt Erwin
07 Bross Alarich Alfons Johann
07 Bruening Walter
07 Buchholz Hans
07 Buettner Kurt August Hermann
07 Buhl Hermann
07 Bury Otto
07 Buttler Adelbert
07 Classen Wilhelm Heinrich
07 Clemens Hans
07 Collas Baron Tibor von
07 Czech Hans
07 Darnard Joseph
07 Degrelle Leon
08 Deppner Erich
08 Deumling Joachim
08 Dickten Guenter
08 Didinger Josef
08 Dietrich Heinrich
08 Dietrich Werner
08 Doihara Kenji
08 Dolezalek Alexander
08 Dollman Eugene
08 Domes Walter Josef
09 Dorn Fritz
09 Dragonovic Krunoslav Stjepan
09 Drexler Oskar
09 Duplitzer Emil
09 Eggen Hans Wilhelm
10 Eichmann Adolf 01
10 Eichmann Adolf 02
11 Eichmann Adolf 03
11 Eilitz Herbert
11 Endroedy Eugenio
11 Erlbeck Emil
11 Ernst Hans Dietrich
11 Etterich Harald
11 Fay Bernard
12 Feddersen Paul Rudolf
12 Felfe Heinz
12 Fiebig Konrad
12 Finke August
12 Fischer Eduard
12 Fisher Dr. George
12 Flick Friedrich
12 Foerster Raimund Wolfgang Edward
12 Foetter Karl Adolf
12 Frank Ferdinand
12 Frank Friedrich
13 Friede Willy Heinrich
13 Fritschek Michael
13 Fritzemeier, Friedrich
13 Froelich Sergei Bernhardwitsh
13 Fruengel Frank
13 Gade Hans Ulrich
13 Garrette Jose
13 Gast Joachim
13 Gehlen Reinhard 01
13 Gehlen Reinhard 02
14 Gehlen Reinhard 02
14 Gehlen Reinhard 03
14 Girg Walter
14 Glanert Georg
14 Globke Hans 01
14 Globocnik Odilo
15 Globocnik Odilo
15 Goering Franz
15 Goerling Richard Arndt
15 Goettsch Werner
15 Grauer Gustav
15 Grond Fritz
15 Gruhle Hans Erich
15 Guse Karl
15 Gutberlet Friedrich
15 Haas Karl Theodor
15 Halswick Karl Gustav
15 Hanelt Gustav Herman Heinrich
15 Hang Branislav Filip
15 Hantel Otto
15 Harms Karl
16 Harster Wilhelm
16 Hassenkamp Gerd
16 Haubold Helmut Gottfried
16 Hausding Gunther
16 Heder Eberhardt
16 Hein Oskar
16 Heinemeyer Kurt
16 Hellwig Otto
16 Hennig Walter Erich Wilhelm
16 Hennig Walter Max
16 Herrlinger Heinz
16 Hinsch Hans
16 Hitler Adolf
16 Hoernicke Werner Paul Clemens
17 Hoesselbarth Herbert
17 Hoettl Wilhelm 01
17 Hoettl Wilhelm 02
18 Hoettl Wilhelm 03
18 Hoettl Wilhelm 04
19 Hoettl Wilhelm 05
19 Hoettl Wilhelm 06
19 Hoettl Wilhelm 07
19 Hoettl Wilhelm 08
19 Hoettl Wilhelm 09
19 Hoettl Wilhelm 10
20 Hoffmann Otto Wilhelm Fredrich
20 Hohmann Paul Eric Kurt
20 Hossbach Johannes
20 Hotzel Rudolf
20 Huber Franz Josef
20 Hubig Hermann
20 Huck Heinrich
20 Huegel Klaus
20 Ihm Karl
20 Imamura Hitoshi
20 Ishii Shiro
20 Isselhorst Erich George Heinrich
21 Issell Horst Paul
21 Jagusch Walter
21 Jansen Erwin
21 Johner Kurt
21 Kalien Hermann
21 Karmasin Franz
21 Kaul Wilhelm
21 Kedia Michel
22 Kedia Michel
22 Keil Kurt
22 Kemnitz Dr. Ernst Martin
22 Kiraly Ferenc
22 Kirscke Ernst Wilhelm
22 Kleiss Herman
22 Kleist Bruno Peter von
22 Klier Karl Heinz
22 Knochen Helmut
22 Knorr Herbert
22 Koenen Hans
22 Koenig Alfred
23 Koerting Erich
23 Kooymans Petreus Johannes
23 Kopkow Horst
23 Kosak Wolodymyr
23 Kosch Fritz Otto Eberhard
23 Krallert Wilfried
23 Krause Edmund
23 Kreutz Karl Otto
23 Krichbaum Wilhelm
24 Krichbaum Wilhelm
24 Krieger Max
24 Krupp Alfried
24 Kuckuk Otto
24 Kungel Adalbert
24 Kupzis Waldemar
24 Kurreck Walter
24 Kuschel Albrecht Georg
24 Kuschel Bernhard Ernst Albert
24 Laechert Hildegarde Luise
25 Lahr Kurt
25 Langen Paul
25 Lawrenz Kurt
25 Leers Johannes von
25 Leetsch Johannes
25 Lehmann Anton
25 Leis Hans
25 Leyer Hans Joachim
25 Licht Theodor
25 Liecke Karl Emil
25 Lienhard Heinrich
25 Lienhard Ludwig
25 Litenstern Michael
26 Lueth Walter
26 Lusars Leonids
26 Lusis Janis
26 Lutterbach Guenther
26 Machule Walter
26 Macke Reinhold
26 Madisso Walemar
26 Mailat Vasile
26 Makowski Ernst
26 Marion Paul
26 Martens Wilhelm Franz Hinrich
26 Meissner Gustav
26 Mengele Josef 01
27 Mengele Josef 02
27 Merten Max
27 Merz Hans
28 Metzner Alfred
28 Mewes Heinrich
28 Meyer Walter Carl Heinrich
28 Milch Fieldmarshall Erhard
28 Mildenstein Leopold Eduard Stephan von
28 Muehler Rolf
28 Mueller Heinrich 01
28 Mueller Heinrich 02
29 Mueller Heinrich 03
29 Naumann Werner
29 Nebel Ludwig 01
30 Nebel Ludwig 01
30 Nebel Ludwig 02
31 Nebel Ludwig 02
31 Neubacher Hermann
31 Neuborg Ludwig
31 Neunteuffel Paul
31 Neuper Ernst Hugo Willy
31 Ney Karoly
31 Nickel Siegfried
32 Nordheim Karl-Heinz
32 Okawa Shumei
32 Olian Michael
32 Opitz Paul
32 Pacher Franz
32 Palezieux Wilhelm Ernst
32 Panzinger Friedrich
32 Peischle Erich
32 Pekelsky Vladimir
33 Pekelsky Vladimir
33 Pfaff Wernfried
33 Pfahls Ludwig
33 Pirich Hermann
33 Plaschke Ernst
33 Pohnert Roman
33 Pretzsch Waldemar
33 Proebsting Helmut
33 Putica Dragutin
33 Rademacher Franz
33 Rajakowitsch Erich
34 Ranner Sebastian
34 Rasch Otto
34 Rauff Walter
34 Rebane Anatel
34 Reder Walter
34 Rehder Eggert
34 Rehder Werner
34 Reichl Karl Eugene
34 Reif Josef
35 Reimeringer Frantz
35 Remer Otto Ernst
35 Richter Walter
35 Riedel Gerhard
35 Riedweg Franz
35 Roga Vilis
35 Rosenhahn Walter
35 Rossner Hermann
35 Rudl Karl
36 Ruehle Hans von Lilienstern
36 Ruoff Hans Joachim
36 Saevecke Theo
36 Sahr Gerhard Max Adolf Martin
36 Sandberger Martin
36 Sander Hans
37 Sanitzer Johann
37 Schaedlich Erich Paul
37 Schellenberg Walter 01
37 Schellenberg Walter 02
38 Schellenberg Walter 02
38 Schieber Walter
38 Schindowski Hans
38 Schlemmer Gerhard
38 Schlotterer Gustav
38 Schlude Herman
38 Schlude Stefan
38 Schmidt Albert
38 Schmidt Emil
38 Schmitz Jakob
38 Schoebel Hans Erich
38 Schraag Otto Richard
38 Schreiber Helmut
38 Schreieder Joseph
38 Schumacher Hans Carl
39 Schunack Gustav Martin
39 Schwend Fritz Venceslav
39 Schwerin-Krosigk Lutz von
39 Schwinge Herbert
39 Segna Walter
39 Seinsche Jakob
39 Seinsche Julius
40 Sima Horia 01
40 Sima Horia 02
40 Sima Horia 03
41 Sima Horia 03
41 Simbeck Rudolf
41 Six Franz
41 Skorzeny Otto 01
42 Skorzeny Otto 01
42 Skorzeny Otto 02
42 Smischliaew Waldirmir Rolf
42 Somann Otto
43 Sommer Hans
43 Sonnenhol Adolf
43 Spakler Wolfgang
43 Spiegelhauer Heinrich
43 Spilker Alfred
43 Sprenglewski Walter
43 Steimle Eugen
43 Stiastny Viktor
43 Strahberger Karl
44 Sziburies Arnold August Christian
44 Teschner Walter
44 Thuemmler Hans
44 Thyrolf Rudolf
44 Timmel Roland
44 Trummler Hans
44 Urban Josef Adolf
44 Vacarescu Joachim
44 Voetterl Josef
44 Vogel Erich
45 Vukovic Zoran
45 Waldheim Kurt 01
45 Waldheim Kurt 02
45 Warzecha Gerhard Ernst Bruno
45 Weimann Ernst
45 Weissig Theodor
45 Wenger Erich Otto
45 Wesch Ludwig
45 Wiebe Gerhard
46 Wiebe Herbert
46 Wiedmann Franz
46 Wiegand Erich
46 Wiessmeyer Christian
46 Wildner Karl
46 Wilfert Horst
46 Wilimzig Georg
46 Winterstein Heinrich
46 Woerner Eugene
46 Wolff Karl
46 Wolfstieg Dr. Friedrich
46 Wolmar Wolfgang Wolfram
47 Woyrsch Udo von
47 Wuensche Hans
47 Wunderlich Kurt
47 Wurdig Walter
47 Zapp Paul
47 Zech-Nenntwich Hans
47 Zeiler Ludwig
47 Ziebel Hans-George
47 Zietlow Fritz
47 Zimmer Guido
48 Zimmer Guido
48 Zipperling Franz
48 Zirner Johann
48 Zoglmann Siegfried
48 Zschunke Marcel

[Michael Miller]

Photo of Alfred Spilker, from "Der Freiwillige", issue of Nov. 1961.

Best,
~ Mike

[S_S]

David, if you can get details about "Suspected War Criminals [Pacific Theater]", it would be a real help. See if Lt General Tsunamasa Shidei's name is there. There is little I can do sitting in India. I had sent a mail to NARA, they replied and then clammed up. There is this controversy about Indian leader Subhas Bose's death. There were several charges and one of them was that the Allies, including India, drew up a secret list of missing war criminals and Bose's name was in it. The evidence that has surfaced in recent times shows that Bose did not perish in August 1945 as was reported. I have reasons to belive that there can be some substance in the war criminals list angle.

There are many details. I have seen some classified stuff. The issue is alive and can explode any time next year. If that happens, ripples wud be felt across the world. May be you wud like to go thru this small newsclipping. Many thanks.

its insane to suggest that Bose was a war criminal. All he was (after quitting his checkered political career - youngest president of the congress), was a freedom fighter, a la Simon Bolivar. Taking help from the axis powers or killing the british in india doesnt make anyone a war criminal or "terrorist" as the hogwash-spewing english media would describe indian freedom fighters (whilest glorifying neutered and confused souls like gandhi).

just forget the second world war for a second. the british are raping india's wealth. indians raise an army to throw them out. does that make those indians and their leader a war criminal or a freedom fighter??? The only war criminals during thw WW2 were the ones who attacked unarmed civilians, be they germans on the jews, the japanese in manchuria or the british causing artificial famines (and indierctly causing deaths) in their many colonies.

[David Thompson]

S_S -- We're not really interested in polemical opinion posts in the research sections of the forum. Please consult the rules at: H&WC Section Rules
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=53962

[S_S]

well even the allegations that bose was a "war criminal" is very much an opinion, supported by no evidence whatsoever to prove that Bose tortured POWs or participated in some similar act which would make him culpable.

[David Thompson]

S_S -- No one here has claimed that Subhas Chandra Bose was a war criminal. There is an allegation that his name appeared on a list, which so far no one has been able to locate, of "war criminals" wanted by the allies. Since we don't have the list, and don't have any allegations which may have accompanied it, your polemical opinion post was premature as well as violative of our rules here. Accept the lesson, and be more cautious in the future.

[michael mills]

The original question that started this thread was:

Would anyone happen to know if there's anything on The Internet about
Nazi War Criminals who remain At Large?

Comprehensive lists of persons who were alleged to have committed war crimes does not really answer that question.

Since a person who turned 20 in 1945 will turn 81 this year, the number of persons still living who allegedly committed war crimes during the Second World War must be very small indeed, given that the great majority of such persons must have been aged well over 20 in 1945.

[Panzer Leader]

In regard to the Japanese war criminals, were would they go, the same places as the German's did?

[waldorf]

In regard to the Japanese war criminals, were would they go, the same places as the German's did?

Ultimately seven German war criminals were housed in Spandau prison which was located in western Berlin. The Four-Power's each took turn running the prison (U.S., U.S.S.R, U.K. & France). The prison was torn down in 1987 when the last prisoner, Rudolf Hess, died.

If I remember correctly Japanese war criminals were held in the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. Sugamo Prison I believe was torn down in the early 1970's once the prisoners were either paroled or dead.

Regards,

Chris

[Panzer Leader]

I mean did any of them escape justice by fleeing to South America, like the German's did?

[paolosilv]

As of August 2008, according to his Wikipedia bio, Martin Sandberger was alive Today he would be about 98 or 99 years old. Anyway of finding out if he still lives?

RADEMACHER, Franz—Chief of Jewish Section of Nazi Foreign Office; escaped from Germany while awaiting appeal of prison sentence, fled to Egypt; now roving ambassador of Nazi underground. SyrIa 96 years old or dead.

Living or dead?

Thank you.

[Paul Warzecha]

I would like more information on Gerhard Ernst Bruno Warzecha. He is listed as a Nazi war criminal at large. I would like to know what branch of service he was in and what he did that was supposed to be a war crime.

[john h]

The Simon Wiesenthal Center updated its list of most wanted Nazis on April 1, 2008, along with an update about various countries' cooperation in helping bring Nazi war criminals to justice after all these years. "I pray for the health of Nazis every day," said Efraim Zuroff, Israel director of the Wiesenthal Center and coordinator of research on Nazis remaining worldwide. "But only for those I can bring to justice." Following are my original profiles of those on the most-wanted list.

Dr. Aribert Heim
Known as "Dr. Death" and the "Butcher of Mauthausen," Heim is known for his gruesome experiments and murders of prisoners in the Austrian concentration camp. Heim is said to have injected a variety of lethal substances into patients' hearts and conducting organ removal without anesthetic, killing hundreds of prisoners in the two months he worked at the camp. He was also a doctor at Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald camps. He's been on the run since 1962, when he found out he was about to be arrested for war crimes. His children claim he died from cancer in 1993 in Argentina (he was thought to be in Chile in 2006, where his daughter lives), but withdrawals in recent years from Heim's secret bank accounts put authorities hot on his trail.

Ivan Demjanjuk
Also known as John Demjanjuk, the U.S. resident and Ford auto plant worker first came under suspicion in 1977 of being Treblinka Concentration Camp guard "Ivan the Terrible." (For Ford, Demjanjuk worked on Diesel engines; in court, he was accused of operating the Diesel engines at the gas chambers.) In 1986, he was extradited to Israel to face charges, and in 1988 was sentenced to death for war crimes -- a sentence overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993. The fact that he served at the Sobibor and Majdanek death camps was less in doubt, and in 2002 was ordered deported to Ukraine by a U.S. judge. His 2008 appeal of the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court failed; the same week, Poland dropped its investigation into his war activities.

Dr. Sandor Kepiro
Kepiro was a Hungarian police captain during the three-day Novi Sad, Serbia, massacre in 1942, in which more than 1,200 civilians were killed -- shot along the Danube and dumped into the freezing waters. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1944, but was set free by Hungary's fascist regime and fled to Argentina. Two years later, Hungary's communist government convicted him of war crimes in absentia. After that regime fell, Kepiro returned in 1996. Ten years later, the Wiesenthal Center discovered his whereabouts and held a press conference outside his Budapest apartment. Kepiro told reporters that he did round up victims, but claims that soldiers and not his paramilitary police committed the killings. Hungary has opened a new probe.

Milivoj Asner
INTERPOLAsner served as a Croatian police chief of the Ustasha, and is accused of sending hundreds of Jews, Gypsies and Serbs to death camps. By 1942, the entire Jewish community in Asner's town, Pozega, was wiped out. After the war, Asner fled to Austria, where he was granted citizenship. Some five decades later he felt comfortable enough to settle again near Pozega, where he was discovered by a young Croatian historian. Asner promptly fled back to Austria. In 2005, Croatia requested extradition, but Austria denied the request on the basis of Asner's citizenship. When it was discovered that he's lost his citizenship, Austria denied extradition on medical grounds.

Soeren Kam
A former SS officer, Kam has been indicted in Denmark for the 1943 slaying of anti-Nazi newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen. Germany refused his extradition, maintaining that the kidnapping and slaying was manslaughter and not murder, thus the statute of limitations had supposedly expired. The Daily Telegraph, probing Kam's life in Germany last fall, noted he "has regularly attended veterans' rallies of SS men. He has also been closely associated with Heinrich Himmler's daughter Gudrun Burwitz and her network Stille Hilfe (Silent Aid), set up to support arrested, condemned or fugitive former SS men." Danish authorities are now investigating his role in the deportation of Jews.

Heinrich Boere
After the war, while in Allied custody, Boere admitted killing three men -- Fritz Hubert Ernst Bicknese, Teun de Groot and F.W. Kusters -- in 1944 as part of a Waffen-SS hit squad tasked with taking out the Dutch resistance. Boere found shelter in Germany before a Dutch court convicted him in the slayings in 1949. Germany has since refused to extradite him. Yet in April 2008, a German prosecutor brought charges against Boere in what was dubbed as possibly Germany's last World War II war crimes trial. "I'm not interested in what happened back then," Boere told Der Spiegel last fall. UPDATE: Boere was convicted on charges of killing the trio and sentenced to life in prison by a German court on March 23, 2010.

Karoly (Charles) Zentai
Hungarian Karoly Zentai, who later anglicized his name to Charles, is accused of conducting manhunts against and committing slayings of Jews in Budapest. Witnesses claim that in 1944, Zentai pulled a Jewish teen (Peter Balazs) not wearing his yellow star off a train, took him to army barracks, beat him to death, then threw his body into the Danube. Hungary has been trying to get Zentai extradited from Australia since 2005. Zentai's attorneys joined a technical challenge to the extradition law mounted by an Irishman wanted for fraud in Dublin. Efraim Zuroff, Israel director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called the legal morass in Australia "one of the most bizarre efforts ever mounted to block the prosecution of a Holocaust perpetrator."

Mikhail Gorshkow
The onetime interrogator for the Gestapo is accused of helping kill about 3,000 men, women and children in the Slutsk ghetto in Minsk, Belarus. Born in Estonia, Gorshkow became a U.S. citizen in 1963, only to be denaturalized in 2002. Before the court decision, Gorshkow fled the U.S. and was awarded an Estonian passport. Ever since then, Estonian officials have been probing the alleged war crimes in his background, while remaining fuzzy about his exact current whereabouts.


Algimantas Dailide
The former Lithuanian Security Police (Saugumas) official fled to the U.S. after the war and told immigration officials he'd worked as a "forester." Dailide worked as a real estate agent, retiring in Gulfport, Fla., but was deported in 2004 after his citizenship was revoked in 1997. He was convicted by Lithuania for capturing Poles and Jews, including women and children, trying to escape from the Vilna Ghetto. Jews arrested by his unit were summarily executed by the Nazis. But the court refused to send him to prison "because he is very old and does not pose danger to society." Eighty-five percent of Lithuania's Jews were killed in the war.

Harry Mannil
A member of the Estonian Political Police in Tallinn in 1941-42, it is alleged that Mannil arrested Jews and communists who were subsequently executed by the Nazis and Estonians collaborators. After the war, testimony of Mannil's activities interrogating prisoners (many of whom were subsequently killed) was heard by Sweden's Sandler Commission; he was expelled from Sweden and denied entry to Britain. Mannil, a businessman and art collector who found refuge in Venezuela for five decades, was promptly expelled when he tried to take up residence in Costa Rica in 2003. He is barred from entering the United States. Estonia, which has never prosecuted a Nazi collaborator, cleared Mannil of war crimes after an investigation.

Alois Brunner
The Wiesenthal Center is skeptical as to whether the "best man" to Adolf Eichmann is still alive; the last reported sighting of him was in 2001. Brunner has been found responsible for the deportation of more than 128,000 Jews from France, Austria, Greece, and Slovakia to death camps. He was last living in Syria -- where the regime sheltered him for decades and where he worked as a "government adviser" -- which has stymied French efforts to make Brunner serve a life sentence for war crimes (he was convicted in absentia in 2001). The Austrian government has offered 50,000 Euros for his capture. Brunner told the Chicago Sun-Times by phone in 1987, "The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."

[steve248]

Gerhard Warzecha
20 Nov 1904, born Fritzendorf/Ostpr.
July 1943, SS-Ostuf KK when posted from RSHA IV E3 (Spionageabwehr West) to BdS Paris; assigned to KdS Rouen as Deputy Leiter IV
spring to 6 June 1944, Leiter, Aussendienststelle St Lo
June-Oct 1944, staff of KdS Rouen gradually retreat across France to Metz
Oct-Dec 1944, KdS Rouen staff moved to Zlin/CZ
Dec 1944, most of the KdS Rouen moved to Cochem a d Moselle and became zbV Kommando 3 (Einsatzgruppe L) and played a small role in the Ardennes until military failure caused a retreat
Jan 1945, Warzecha wounded in Cochem during an Allied air bombardment on the town, and evacuated to Berlin
1960s, questioned as a witness by the West German police looking into war crimes during the Ardennes campaign.