$310,000 ‘Bounty’ Paid to Find Nazi
West German Nazi-hunters paid $310,000 for information that led to the capture of a camp commandant charged with killing at least 5,000 Jews, the West German war crimes prosecutor said Monday.
The record bounty was paid to an anonymous informer who led investigators to Argentina, where Josef Schwammberger had been living in hiding for three decades, Alfred Streim said after addressing the World Jewish Congress in West Berlin.
Schwammberger, 78, was brought to West Germany from Argentina last week and faces trial in Stuttgart on charges of ordering executions, deportations and murdering Jews.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles helped make the case for his extradition from Argentina.
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