Nazi Hunting

Is apparently still alive and well. There's fresh leads to be had in the search for the infamous Dr. Death, Aribert Heim, who's believed to be somewhere along the Argentinian-Chile border and is also believed to be around 94 years old.

The obvious question one would expect to have when reading this article is, why bother? The guy is 94 years old and by the time you get him in front of a judge, he's probably going to be dead. The guy in question, however, got a reputation for things like this:

He is accused of killing Jews using exceptionally cruel methods. According to Holocaust survivors, he performed operations and amputations without anaesthetic to see how much pain his victims could endure.

Injecting victims straight into the heart with petrol, water or poison were said to have been his favoured method at Mauthausen. And when he was "bored", he apparently timed patients' deaths with a stopwatch.

I don't really care if you're 54 or 94. Crimes like these don't have an expiration date and you should be tried for them. I lost a lot of respect for Margaret Thatcher when she pushed to have former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet sent back to Chile- and it's the same basic idea. Too many dictators and war criminals never get tried at all. So where's the justice? How do a people or a country move on from crimes this massive? Can they ever?

All good questions. But certainly, capturing them and bringing them to trial is a place to start.