Thursday, February 05, 2009

Popegate?


International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten: "THE WORLD FROM BERLIN
'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...

* Losing Touch: A German Pope Disgraces the Catholic Church
* German Jewish Leader: 'What Benedict Did Is Unforgivable'



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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