Names of 250 Nazi War Criminals Still in Hiding Revealed

More than 250 suspected Nazi war criminals are believed to be living in eight countries, and lists of their names have been turned over to those governments, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.

The lists were given recently to officials in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, West Germany, the United States and Venezuela. Former Nazi war criminals are believed to be living elsewhere also, but lists haven’t been presented to other countries.

Here are thumbnail sketches of those identified by the Wiesenthal Center as among the most notorious:

- Alois Brunner, who reputedly was a deputy and chief aide to Adolf Eichmann and responsible for the deportation of at least 128,500 Jews. He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1954 in France for crimes against humanity and now allegedly lives in Damascus, Syria, under the name George Fischer. He is 73 years old.

- Heinrich Mueller, who reputedly was head of the German Gestapo and overseer of the Nazi extermination program. He is said to have fled to Albania and then further east immediately after World War II. His family claims he died after the war and was buried in Berlin, but West German officials in 1964 exhumed the body claimed to be his and said an examination of the remains was unable to determine the identity. If alive, he would be 85.

- Joseph Schwammberger, reputed to be a former SS captain, commandant of the Rozwadeva ghetto and the Przemsyl work camp for Jews in Poland. He is said to have been responsible for mass deportation and shooting of Jews. He was arrested in 1947 in Austria but escaped and allegedly reached Argentina, where he is believed to remain in hiding at age 73.

- Hans Guenther, identified as Eichmann’s No. 2 man. Whereabouts unknown.

- Anton Burger, said to have been an Eichmann assistant and deputy commander of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. He was captured and imprisoned but escaped in 1948. Present whereabouts are unknown.

- Dr. Hans Wilhelm Koenig, who allegedly worked with Dr. Fritz Klein and Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz, assisting in making selections for gas chambers. Koenig, who would now be 73, is believed to be living in Scandinavia.

- Robert Jan Verbelen, reputed to have been a leader of the Flemish SS unit in Belgium. He was sentenced to death in absentia by a Belgian military court in 1947 for mass murder. He is now 74 years years old and living in Vienna as a naturalized Austrian citizen. He was arrested in 1962 and stripped of citizenship in Austria, but the Austrian Supreme Court in 1966 dismissed the allegations and reinstated his citizenship. Austrian law prohibits extradition of citizens.

- Aribert, or Heribert, Heim, reputed to have been a doctor at Mauthausen in Austria who conducted cruel experiments on humans. Heim, who would be 71, is believed to be living under a false name somewhere in Europe.

- Fredrick Warzok, or Wartzok, who allegedly organized transports and ordered and participated in the murder of about 40,000 people as commander at the Lemberg-Janowsky camp in what was then part of Poland. Whereabouts unknown.