Back in the 1990s, Steve Rambam posed as a university researcher to get war criminals to tell him their stories.
In Hope, B.C., he interviewed Antanas Kenstavicius.
“He was a police chief in Lithuania and his unit, under supervision of Germans, rounded up 5,000 Jews. They were locked up for a week, the women raped, their belongings looted. Then they lined them up naked in the ditch… it took them six days to kill them all by gunfire. This guy was telling me all this matter-of-factly. He told me: ‘Then on Nov. 19, no more Jews.'”
It took them six days to kill them all by gunfire. This guy was telling me all this matter-of-factly
Proceedings to deport Mr. Kenstavicius began in 1997; the 90-year-old died the same day.
The case was not the first, or last, Canadian failure to bring suspected Nazi war criminals to justice.
It is estimated that between 2,000 and 5,000 war criminals fled to Canada after the Second World War, but not one Nazi has ever been successfully prosecuted in this country.
“It is to the Canadian government’s great and eternal shame that more was not done,” said Mr. Rambam, the renowned “Nazi hunter”... (more...)
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