Why is it taking so long to find (and kill) the Nazis?

Question

Come on! It's been 66 years since we won WWII! They should've all been dead by now!

Did I say 66? I meant 61. Sorry for being inaccurate.

Living Nazis
This is a list of NSDAP members that are still alive and presumed/considered war criminals. Due to the fact that there have been many Nazis living as fugitives since that time, the fate of many remain unknown, see below:

Known to be alive
Herta Bothe, Aufseherin who served at both Stutthof and Bergen Belsen during the war.
Luise Danz, Aufseherin at various camps, including Płaszów, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Malchow. Was brought to trial in 1996 but was dismissed due to her age.
Erich Priebke, Hauptsturmführer of the SS he participated in the Ardeatine massacre in Rome, on March 24, 1944 where he had a hand in the deaths of 335 Italian civilians.
Søren Kam, Member of the DNASP the Danish Nazi Party, not NSDAP, who fled from Denmark to Germany after the war, and is now a German citizen. On September 21, 2006, Kam was detained in the German town of Kempten. He is wanted in Denmark for the assassination of Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Co

Believed to be alive
These people have not been confirmed to be alive, but believed by some to be.
Alois Brunner - Believed by some to live in Brazil or Syria under alias Dr. Georg Fischer. Responsible for the deaths of 14,000 Jews.
Lorenz Hackenholt.
Aribert Heim a.k.a. 'Dr. Death' - Believed to live in Spain until October 2005, at which time he possibly relocated to Denmark. As of May 2006, he was believed to be in Chile.
Heinrich Müller - Believed to have died in Fuhrerbunker, but subject to many conspiracy theories about his possible survival.

Believed to be alive
These people have not been confirmed to be alive, but believed by some to be.
Alois Brunner - Believed by some to live in Brazil or Syria under alias Dr. Georg Fischer. Responsible for the deaths of 14,000 Jews.
Lorenz Hackenholt.
Aribert Heim a.k.a. 'Dr. Death' - Believed to live in Spain until October 2005, at which time he possibly relocated to Denmark. As of May 2006, he was believed to be in Chile.
Heinrich Müller - Believed to have died in Fuhrerbunker, but subject to many conspiracy theories about his possible survival.

Nazi human experimentation
Nazi human experimentation was medical experimentation on large numbers of people by the German Nazi regime in its concentration camps during World War II.

Dr. Josef Mengele was infamous for carrying out medical experiments on human subjects at Auschwitz. These included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing various drugs on them, freezing them to death, and various other usually fatal traumas. Of particular interest to Mengele were twins, gypsies, dwarves and infants. Beginning in 1943, twins were selected and placed in special barracks.

Nazi human experimentation
Nazi human experimentation was medical experimentation on large numbers of people by the German Nazi regime in its concentration camps during World War II.

Dr. Josef Mengele was infamous for carrying out medical experiments on human subjects at Auschwitz. These included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing various drugs on them, freezing them to death, and various other usually fatal traumas. Of particular interest to Mengele were twins, gypsies, dwarves and infants. Beginning in 1943, twins were selected and placed in special barracks.

Almost all of Mengele's experiments were of little scientific value, including attempts to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, various amputations and other brutal surgeries, and in at least one case attempting to create artificial conjoined twins by sewing the veins of twins together. This operation was not successful and caused the children's hands to become badly infected.

The full extent of Mengele's work will never be known because the two truckloads of records he sent to Dr Otmar von Verschuer at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute were destroyed by the latter. Subjects who survived Mengele's experiments were almost always killed for dissection.

Experiments
According to the indictment at the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, these experiments included:
High-altitude experiments
In early 1942, prisoners at Dachau concentration camp were used so the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) could find out the capacity of the human body to endure and survive high altitude. A low-pressure chamber containing these prisoners was used to simulate conditions at altitudes of up to 20 km (68,000 ft).

Freezing experiments
Later in 1942, the Luftwaffe conducted experiments to learn how to treat hypothermia. One study forced subjects to endure a tank of ice water for up to three hours. Another study placed prisoners naked in the open for several hours with temperatures below freezing. The experimenters assessed different ways of rewarming survivors.

Malaria experiments
From about February 1942 to about April 1945, experiments were conducted at the Dachau concentration camp in order to investigate immunization for treatment of malaria. Healthy inmates were infected by mosquitoes or by injections of extracts of the mucous glands of mosquitoes. After contracting malaria, the subjects were treated with various drugs to test their relative efficiency. Over 1,000 subjects were used in these experiments.

LOST (mustard) gas experiments
At various times between September 1939 and April 1945, experiments were conducted at Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler, and other camps to investigate the most effective treatment of wounds caused by LOST gas, commonly known as mustard gas. Wounds were inflicted on the subjects, who were tested with LOST.

Sulfonamide experiments
From about July 1942 to about September 1943, experiments to investigate the effectiveness of sulfonamide were conducted at Ravensbrück. Wounds inflicted on the subjects were infected with bacteria such as streptococcus, gas gangrene, and tetanus. Circulation of blood was interrupted by tying off blood vessels at both ends of the wound to create a condition similar to that of a battlefield wound. Infection was aggravated by forcing wood shavings and ground glass into the wounds. The infection was treated with sulfonamide and other drugs to determine their effectiveness.

Bone, muscle, & nerve regeneration & bone transplantation experiments
From about September 1942 to about December 1943, experiments were conducted at Ravensbrück to study bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration, and bone transplantation from one person to another. Sections of bones, muscles, and nerves were removed from the subjects.

Answer 1

Okay, don't know about the CIA guy, but these things take time and depend on an investigative process relying on memory more often than not. As you point out, after 60+ years, memories fade, people (witnesses) die off and, and events thus become harder to reconstruct.

As another answerer said, Nazism is an idea, a thought construct that depends on followers. Therefore, since "killing" an idea is impossible, there will always be Nazis. They might call themselves something else, but the concept is still intact.

Answer 2

Werner von Braun didn't have ties to the Bushes. What color is the sky in your world? Check your history books. We accepted von Braun because it was us or the Soviets. We didnt want them getting their hands on the rocketry knowledge in his head. Most of the escaped Nazis lived in South America since socialist leaders seem to thrive down there. I agree that they should all be dead by now, but for some reason, seriously evil bastards live forever. Fidel Castro is still hanging on. Mao tse Tung lived about 700 years. Adolf Hitler probably would have if he hadn't pissed off about 200 million Russians.

Answer 3

Erich Priebke's been convicted (1998) for his crimes in Italy (along with now dead Karl Haas); due to his age. he was allowed to spent life sentence under house arrest

Answer 4

the Jew's want to keep this in the forefront of Americas minds so they won't complain about the 11 billion dollars being paid to Israel for the so called holocaust fund, after 60 years it is pretty hard to justify paying so much but, there must be one hell of a lot of old Jews in Israel, I will bet many many of them will live to be over one thousand years old, does anyone remember the Jewish woman who identified a man in Ohio as a death camp guard when he was 19 years old ??? the man was in his seventy's when she I,D,d him that mush have been some imagination

Answer 5

Most of them live and worked in the US, and have close ties with the Bush House. They did our space program, Vernor Van Braun for example.

Answer 6

Nobody (i mean the presidents,prime ministers etc) wants to kill nazis.There are a lot of things (that we don't know) that make nazis very important for them.I think that you got the message.

Answer 7

they are mostly dead or on their death beds, although some think they secretly bred here and now control the government,oops did I say that out loud

Answer 8

The Republicans are hiding them.

Answer 9

Pretty much most of them worth finding are dead...

Answer 10

because the CIA has been keeping their location secret, because many of them have been turning information over to the CIA to buy their freedom. it is a sick sick world we live in.