Dr. Aribert Heim tops The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of Most Wanted Nazis.

Aribert Heim
Aribert Heim (Photo)

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is putting out their list of the top ten most wanted Nazis tomorrow, but the Associated Press got their hands on the list today. Dr. Aribert Heim is at the top of the list.

Dr. Aribert Heim, whereabouts unknown: Indicted in Germany on charges he murdered hundreds of inmates at Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was camp doctor. Disappeared in 1962, before planned prosecution.

If Dr. Aribert Heim is still alive he will be 93-years-old. According to the Simon Wisenthal Center there is good reason to believe he is still alive and living in a villa in Spain. He disappeared from his home in Baden-Baden, Germany when he was about to be arrested in 1962 for crimes he committed during World War II when he was the head doctor at Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp.

Prior to the war, Heim was a hockey pro. During the war he was one of the most fear Nazis and was comparied to Josepf Mengele who was the SS doctor at Auschwitz concentratin camp because of the gruesome nature of the medical experiments he would perform. Heim was known for injecting prisoners with lethal drugs and operating on them without anesthetics. he would use a stopwatch to time how long it took for them to die.

Aribert Heim was also known to remove the tattooed flesh of prisoners and use it for home decor. He once removed the tattooed flesh of a prisoner in order to make seat coverings for the home of the commandant of the camp.

When he was got word that he was to be arrested he disappeared and has not been seen since 1962. His family insists that he died many years ago, however, the Simon Wiesenthal Center insist that there is compelling evidence that he is still alive. They have evidence that he went from Baden-Baden to Southern Spain. There is some evidence that he may have left there to go to Chile via Denmark.

There is no way of knowing what he looks like today. Many Nazis are known to have undergone surgeries to alter their appearance following the war. He is known to have a distinctive scar near his mouth following a duel.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center top ten Most Wanted Nazis are:

1. Dr. Aribert Heim, whereabouts unknown: Indicted in Germany on charges he murdered hundreds of inmates at Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was camp doctor. Disappeared in 1962, before planned prosecution.

2. John Demjanjuk, in United States: Ukrainian immigrant alleged by U.S. authorities to have been guard at Nazi camps. He denies that. Extradited to Israel in 1986, where he was sentenced to death for allegedly being Treblinka camp guard “Ivan the Terrible.” Verdict overturned in 1993 and Demjanjuk returned to America. U.S. citizenship restored in 1998, then removed in 2002. Seeking to appeal court’s January rejection of challenge to immigration judge’s order that would send him to Germany, Poland or Ukraine.

3. Sandor Kepiro, in Hungary: Former Hungarian gendarmerie officer accused of involvement in wartime killings of more than 1,000 civilians in Serbia. Convicted twice in Hungarian courts, in 1944 and 1946, but never punished. Kepiro, who moved back to Hungary in 1996 after decades in Argentina, denies accusations. Hungary reinvestigating.

4. Milivoj Asner, in Austria: Police chief in Croatia’s wartime Nazi puppet regime, he is suspected of active role in persecution and deportation to death of hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. In 2005, Croatia requested his extradition from Austria, which refused, saying he is unfit to stand trial or be questioned.

5. Soeren Kam, in Germany: Former member of SS wanted by Denmark in assassination of journalist in 1943. Extradition from Germany was blocked in 2007 by Bavarian court that found insufficient evidence for murder charges.

6. Heinrich Boere, in Germany: Admitted hit man for Waffen-SS accused of killing three Dutch civilians. Sentenced to death in absentia in 1949 in Netherlands, later commuted to life in prison. German courts refused to extradite him, then declared conviction invalid. Prosecutors in Dortmund, Germany, brought new murder charges against him this month.

7. Charles Zentai, in Australia: Former Hungarian soldier has been under investigation by Hungary’s Foreign Ministry since December 2004 on suspicion of killing Peter Balazs in Budapest in 1944 for failing to wear a yellow star identifying him as Jew. Zentai denies charge and fighting extradition.

8. Mikhail Gorshkow, in Estonia: U.S. officials and Jewish groups accuse Gorshkow of helping kill Jews while serving as interpreter and interrogator for German Gestapo in Belarus. He returned to native Estonia in 2002 just before federal court stripped him of U.S. citizenship for lying about his war record. Prosecutors in Estonia investigating case.

9. Algimantas Dailide, in Germany: Convicted in 2006 in Lithuania of helping round up Jews for Nazis as officer in Vilnius security police. Sentenced to five years in jail, but judge ruled he was too frail to serve sentence. He had been deported from U.S. to Germany in 2003 for lying on immigration application. Lives in Germany, but went voluntarily to Lithuania for trial.

10. Harry Mannil, in Venezuela: Former officer in Estonia’s political police and German security forces during Nazi occupation of Estonia. U.S. authorities investigating Mannil’s 1990s visa application concluded he took part in murder of hundreds of Jews, barring him entry. Was cleared in 2005 by Estonian investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity.