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The Last Nazi Hunter

Federal prosecutor Eli M. Rosenbaum, 54, is on the trail of mass murderers, but you won’t see a story like his on CSI. There is no crime scene to study, the witnesses are long dead, and the evidence is scattered worldwide. The director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Rosenbaum is America’s chief Nazi hunter. Sixty-five years after the end of the Second World War, he is still tracking down its last surviving criminals.
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April 2, 2010

From Parade.com:

Federal prosecutor Eli M. Rosenbaum, 54, is on the trail of mass murderers, but you won’t see a story like his on CSI. There is no crime scene to study, the witnesses are long dead, and the evidence is scattered worldwide. The director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Rosenbaum is America’s chief Nazi hunter. Sixty-five years after the end of the Second World War, he is still tracking down its last surviving criminals.

With time finishing the job of the Nuremberg trials—the last judgment on Hitler’s henchmen—t he U.S. government plans to merge the OSI into a broader war-crimes effort. Yet Rosenbaum won’t rest until the last Nazi is brought to justice.

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