Erstellt am: 24. 7. 2013 - 14:01 Uhr

Late, but not too late

Reality Check: campaign to track down Nazi war criminals; anti-government protests in Bulgaria.

Nazi War Suspects

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has launched a poster campaign in several German cities aimed at tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice.

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Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem

As part of its "Operation Last Chance II" project, the centre is offering rewards of up to 25,000 euros for information that may lead to the arrest and prosecution of suspects.

Some 70 years after the fall of Nazi Germany, it estimates there to be 60 people alive in Germany fit to stand trial. They include people suspected of having served as guards at Nazi death camps.

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem and a prominent Nazi hunter "the passage of time in no way diminishes the crimes".

Opinion in Germany on the issue is divided, between those who think war criminals should be pursued to the grave and those, often younger people, who say the crimes are remote from present-day Germany.

Elizabeth Alcock found out more from our Berlin correspondent Peter Fritz:

Bulgaria

More than 100 Bulgarian politicians, journalists and staff were trapped in the parliament in Sofia for 8 hours on Tuesday night after protests escalated into a blockade of the building and clashes with police. It was the 40th straight day of anti-government protests against corruption and mismanagement. President Rosen Plevneliev has appealed for calm. Nick Thorpe reports: