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Dutch government issue arrest warrant for 88-year-old Nazi collaborator now living in freedom in Germany

The Netherlands has issued a European Arrest Warrant for an 88-year-old wartime collaborator and killer living in freedom in Germany.

Klass Carel Faber was already sentenced once to life imprisonment for war crimes but escaped over the border into Germany in 1952 where he has remained ever since.

His wartime service for the S.S. gave him German citizienship.

The warrant is seen as the first step in beginning extradition proceedings against Faber, who lives in Bavaria.

But Dutch justice authorities are not hopeful; Germany has a shameful record when it comes to extraditing its own citizens, especially those suspected of Nazi crimes....
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)