A Dane is high on the list of the 10 most wanted World War II Nazi criminals, according to a revised Most Wanted List released by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

Søren Kam figures as number four on the list for wartime crimes in having participated in the murder of the anti-Nazi Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen.

He is also alleged to have stolen the population registry of the Danish Jewish Community to facilitate the roundup and subsequent deportation of Danish Jews to Nazi concentration camps, where dozens perished.

Denmark has unsuccessfully sought to have Kam extradited to Denmark in connection with a European arrest warrant to face charges, but Germany has been unwilling to extradite him.

In November 2008, the Danish Prosecutor’s Office dropped further attempts to have Kam extradited on charges of aiding and abetting the deportation of Danish Jews to Nazi concentration camps, saying there was no direct evidence to show that he was involved in stealing the population registry.

Rise
Kam’s rise to No. 4 on the Most Wanted List comes following reports that Aribert Heim, a doctor who administered lethal injections to inmates at the Mathausen camp, has died in Egypt.

“New evidence suggests that he may have died in Cairo in 1992, but serious doubts regarding these findings and the fact that there is no corpse to examine, raises doubts as to the veracity of this information,” the Center says, but in its new list does not give him a number.

Demjanjuk
Top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center list is now Ivan Demjanjuk who is fighting to rescind a deportation order from the United States to Germany. Demjanjuk is alleged to have taken part in the mass murder of Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp.

Second is Dr. Sandor Kepiro of Hungary who took part in the mass murder of 1,200 civilians in Novi Sad in Serbia, followed by the police chief of Slavonska Pozega in Croatia Milivoj Asner for his active role in the persecution and deportation of hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Roma. He resides in Austria.

Following Søren Kam of Denmark, the Wiesenthal Center lists Klaas Carl Faber who worked for the German Security Service in Holland. His death sentence for murdering prisoners at the Westerbrok transit camp and Groningen prison was commuted to life imprisonment, but he escaped to Germany in 1952.

Will
While some countries have made inroads, the Center says that a lack of political will to bring Nazi criminals to justice and punish them continues to be a major obstacle in achieving justice.

“In this regard, Lithuania’s decision not to implement a jail sentence for Algimantas Dailide stands out as one of the more outrageous legal decisions related to Nazi war criminals during the period under review,” the Center says. Algimantas is No. 9 on the list.

It adds that the most disappointing result in a specific case during the period under review has been Hungary’s failure to bring Dr. Sandor Kepiro to justice.