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Australia soft on Nazi war crimes, says US report

A SPECIAL report commissioned by the US Justice Department - kept secret since 2006 - portrays Australian efforts to prosecute suspected Nazi war criminals as lacklustre at best.

It also describes Australian attitudes to Nazi ''persecutors'' as ''ambivalent'' and quotes observations by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre that Australia's poor record in pursuing Nazis was explained by ''a lack of the requisite political will''.

Ostensibly a history of the US government's Nazi-hunting efforts, the report also reveals the extent to which US authorities sought to pressure Latvia over the prosecution a decade ago of Australian citizen Konrads Kalejs....
Read entire article at The Age (AU)