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Hunt for Nazi camp doctor

MADRID: Spanish police are scouring old people's homes on the east coast of Spain as the hunt closes in on a 91-year-old concentration camp doctor, regarded as one of the most wanted Nazis still alive. Investigators say there is a strong chance that Aribert Heim, who is alleged to have killed hundreds of prisoners at the Mauthausen camp in Austria, is still alive and living on the Spanish coast. Dr Heim is regarded as the second most wanted former Nazi by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Israel, after Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's righthand man. The centre has offered a Euro 10,000 reward for Dr. Heim, in addition to the Euro 130,000 being offered by the German police. The Spanish police's specialist fugitive section was checking old people's homes and looking for elderly Germans with private nurses in the Alicante region, an official source confirmed. German police reopened the Heim case after evidence came to light that the doctor, who allegedly injected Mauthausen prisoners with lethal drugs, might still be alive.

Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

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