On the trail of Dr. Death

Nazi hunters are in town. Yesterday Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre gave a press conference at the Jewish AMIA headquarters in central Buenos Aires. They are on the trail of Aribert Heim, better know as the concentration camp physician "Dr. Death."

I could tell you what they said, but Jeannette already did a much better job.

By JEANNETTE NEUMANN, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 17, 7:31 PM ET

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The world's top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "Doctor Death," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile

Efraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told a news conference that his mission to the southern reaches of the Americas led him to at least four people who claim to have seen Aribert Heim in the past 45 days.

"We're better off than before we came," Zuroff said. "That doesn't guarantee Heim's capture, but I'm hopeful."

Zuroff launched the investigation last week in southern Chilean fishing town of Puerto Montt, where Heim's daughter long lived. Zuroff has said she frequently traveled to the Patagonian town of San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina, which he visited this week.

"What we expected to do — and so far we have been successful — is to put in place the tools that will lead to his capture in the next few weeks — or at the most, months," Zuroff said while in Bariloche.

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On Tuesday New Zealand als got an update from Lat-Am Watch.