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'Merkel Had to React'
Chancellor Angela Merkel's unprecedented demand that Pope Benedict XVI clarify the church's position on the Holocaust is still reverberating on Thursday, more...
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German authorities have come under renewed pressure to track down surviving Nazi war criminals after the discovery this week that a notorious concentration camp doctor lived out his days in Cairo and died a free man.
Aribert Heim, known as "Doctor Death" for the appalling experiments he performed on concentration camp prisoners, was revealed this week to have spent his last decades living as a convert to Islam under the name Tarek Hussein Farid in a run-down Cairo hotel.
According to his son Ruediger, Heim died of cancer in August 1992.
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