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BY NICHOLE CARTMELL
The man who once topped the list as the world's most-wanted living Nazi has died. Laszlo Csatary
passed away at a hospital in Hungary while waiting to go on trial.
Csatary was 98. He had previously been charged with crimes against humanity for allegedly
helping deport more than 15,000 Jews to death camps in World War II. (Via BBC)
In his indictment, Csatary was accused of serving the Nazi police in 1944 — he reportedly
regularly beat Jewish prisoners with a dog-whip. (Via euronews)
However, Csatary had denied these allegations, saying he was merely an intermediary between
Hungarian and German officials.
Csatary was sentenced to death after World War II but went into hiding. He eventually
sought refugee status under an assumed name in Canada until 1997, but was deported for
lying on his application for citizenship. (Via Global National)
Fifteen years later, reporters from British tabloid newspaper, The Sun, found him living
in an apartment in Budapest.
In 2012, the Nazi-hunting organization, Simon Wiesenthal Center, named Csatary as its most-wanted
suspect. The center's director called Csatary's death a disappointment.
"It is a shame that Csatary, a convicted... and totally unrepentant Holocaust perpetrator
who was finally indicted in his homeland for his crimes, ultimately eluded justice and
punishment at the very last minute." (Via The Jerusalem Post)
The Wiesenthal Center is also on the hunt for other Nazi war criminals. Cstary's death
leaves nine other suspected war criminals atop the organization's most-wanted list still
reportedly living in the United States, Canada, Germany and Estonia.