Germany gets top marks for prosecuting Nazi war criminals

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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14765278,00.html

Germany was given an A-grade Wednesday for its efforts to hunt down Nazi war criminals. It's the first time the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization founded by a Holocaust survivor to hunt down Nazi fugitives, has awarded its top grade to any country besides the United States.

Prosecution policy has changed recently in Germany to allow more suspects - particularly lower-ranking Nazis, and those who are not of German origin - to be brought to justice. The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, and author of the report, Dr Efraim Zuroff, welcomed the new rules.

"This change, which basically opened up the prosecution of many other suspects, is a very welcome change, a very significant change, which is likely to yield important results," Zuroff told Deutsche Welle.

Germany has shown a dramatic increase in investigations into Nazi war crimes recently: There were 177 ongoing investigations in 2009-10, compared with just 27 the year before.

[DailyGrind51]

1. When are we going to get around to prosecuting ours?