Mick Hartley

The Times, in June last year:

Investigators have begun scouring southern Chile for an SS officer known as “Doctor Death” in what could be the last great Nazi hunt.

Aribert Heim, a concentration camp doctor who killed hundreds of inmates by injecting petrol or poison into their hearts, is considered the world's most-wanted surviving Nazi. He is believed to be living in hiding in Patagonia at the age of 94.

Nazi hunters from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre have gone to Chile to pursue fresh leads about the ageing Nazi as part of what they call “Operation Last Chance”.

It's true that a number of Nazis, including the infamous Josef Mengele, ended up in South America. But…

While the secret lives of Nazis in countries like Argentina and Paraguay captured the popular imagination in books and films like “The Odessa File” and “The Boys From Brazil,” the Heim case casts light on the often overlooked history of their flight to the Middle East….

“The Arab world was an even better, a safer haven than South America,” said Efraim Zuroff, the Israel director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center…

The Times today:

The last great Nazi hunt, the search for an infamous SS officer known as Dr Death, has ended with the discovery that he died in Cairo in 1992, after converting to Islam.