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Wiesenthal is not the kind of person whose pronouncements may be aired without verification.

Had any Ukrainian come to 60 Minutes carrying such a load of hatred toward Jews as Simon

Wiesenthal carries toward Ukrainians, and displaying - or rather flaunting - such credentials of

unreliability, 60 Minutes would never have given him air time, or if it did, it would be only to

excoriate him. Instead of exposing Mr. Wiesenthal, 60 Minutes has joined him in portraying a

world filled with Nazis, and so has lent support to a witch hunt more hysterical than Joe

McCarthy's sniffing out of Communists in the 50's. Consider the following excerpts from cases

submitted to the Deschenes commission for investigation as suspected Nazi war criminals, and see

if you don't agree. In the Commission report, all of the following cases end with the words,

"On the basis of the foregoing, it is recommended that the file on the subject be closed." The

selection is not intended to be representative, as the overwhelming number of cases are simply

dismissed for lack of evidence - but rather is a sample of cases that upon casual browsing stand

out as being particularly comical, pathetic, or alarming depending upon one's mood. The sample,

furthermore, is far from exhaustive - a vastly greater number of similarly striking cases abound

within the Commission report:

CASE NO. 73. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission by

Mr. Sol Littman. Mr. Littman made no particular allegation against the

subject, but referred to information obtained from a particular individual as

the source of the subject's name. Mr. Littman further indicated that the

subject resided at an unspecified address in Canada and had been the object of

an extradition request by the government of an Eastern European country. No

particulars of this alleged extradition request were provided. ... The

Commission confirmed that an extradition request had not been received by the

Canadian government and that the Berlin Document Center had no record on the

subject.

CASE NO. 121. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the RCMP, whose source of information was the Department of the Solicitor

General which, in turn, had received the information from a private citizen.

It was alleged that this individual may have been a doctor who experimented on

concentration camp prisoners. ... The interview established that the

complainant was not in a position to place the subject in a Nazi war camp nor

was she in possession of names of witnesses able to connect the subject with

wartime criminal activities. ... [T]he subject would have been only 15 to 20

years old during the war, hardly an age to have the position suggested above.

CASE NO. 122. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by an anonymous note. The only allegation initially made was that the subject

was a war criminal and was living at a certain address in Canada. ... [T]he

evidence ... indicates the individual has lived all his life in Canada and was

drafted into the Canadian army for a short time in 1942.

CASE NO. 133. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the RCMP, whose source of information was Mr. Sol Littman. It was alleged

that the subject under investigation had been a member of the SS. ... These

investigations revealed that the subject was born in 1933 and would therefore

have been between 6 and 12 years of age during the war.

CASE NO. 156. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by Mr. Sol Littman. Mr. Littman alleged only that the subject had been a

"propagandist for the party." When contacted by the Commission, Mr. Littman

indicated that he had no further evidence or information. ... On the basis of

the foregoing [itemized investigation], no evidence of participation in or

knowledge of specific war crimes is available.

CASE NO. 158. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by a private citizen. The only allegation initially made was that the subject

was a war criminal because he was so wealthy and of German background. ...

The Commission was advised [by several German sources] that it had a record of

the subject which indicated his membership in the Luftwaffe (air force).

CASE NO. 171. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by ... the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna. ... According to the year

of birth, this person would have been only five or six years old at the end of

World War II.

CASE NO. 179. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by an anonymous letter. The allegation initially made was that the subject was

the owner of a shop who behaved curiously regarding the sources of the store's

goods. ... The subject is the spouse of the individual who is reported in

Case No. 180. Both were denounced in the same anonymous letter. ... The

Commission checked the shop itself and concluded that the complaint is entirely

spurious and unfounded.

CASE NO. 180. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by an anonymous letter. The only allegation initially made was that the

subject was the owner of a shop who behaved curiously regarding the sources of

the store's goods. ... The Commission also checked the shop itself and

concluded that the complaint is entirely spurious and unfounded.

CASE NO. 190. This family's surname was brought to the attention of the

Commission by Mr. David Matas [chairman of the Jewish National Legal

Committee], whose source of information was an anonymous letter claiming the

family came from a foreign country and deserved investigation because they were

"recluses." There was no specific allegation of involvement in war crimes made

against this family.

CASE NO. 202. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the Canadian Jewish Congress, whose source of information was a private

citizen. There was no specific allegation of involvement in war crimes made

against this individual, and the information received was irrational. ... The

Commission contacted the wife of the subject, who stated that she did not know

the citizen (who made the allegation) and that her husband never had any

business dealings with a person by that name. The Commission also tried to

locate the complainant but to no avail.

CASE NO. 247. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the Canadian Jewish Congress, whose source of information was a private

citizen. There was no specific allegation of involvement in war crimes made

against the individual. ... The Commission was advised by the German Military

Service Office ... that it had a record of a person with the same name as the

subject, which indicated that he was a pilot in the Allied Air Force and had

been taken prisoner by the Germans.

CASE NO. 269. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the Canadian Jewish Congress, whose source of information was a private

citizen. It was alleged that this individual is a physician whose physical

description resembles that of the notorious war criminal Dr. Mengele. ...

Personal data of the subject taken from various documentation reveal the

following in comparison with the information contained in the Commission file

with respect to Dr. Mengele:

Year of Birth

Height

Weight

Eyes

Face

Chin

Subject

& 1913

6'3"+

195-215 lbs

Blue

Oval (from Photo)

Dr. Mengele

1911

5'8"+

Medium build

Brown

Round

Round

In addition, the picture of the subject appearing in the various documents

received, does not suggest that he resembles Dr. Mengele. All other search

responses were negative.

CASE NO. 431. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the RCMP, whose source of information was Mr. Sol Littman. Mr. Littman had

forwarded a letter to the RCMP from a private individual. It was alleged in

the letter that the subject under investigation had been in charge of an

unnamed camp and was believed to have shot civilians. ... The Commission

interviewed the individual who submitted the subject's name to Mr. Littman and

was advised that this individual had subsequently determined that the subject

under investigation had been a prisoner of war and further that the complaint

was unfounded.

CASE NO. 433. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the RCMP, whose source of information was an anonymous informant. The only

allegation made was that the subject was "a possible German involved in war

crimes". No specific allegation or evidence against the subject was provided.

... The Commission reviewed material available from the RCMP and CSIS, which

determined that the subject was born in 1933, and for that reason could not

have been involved in the commission of war crimes between 1939 and 1945.

CASE NO. 526. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the Canadian Jewish Congress, whose source of information was a private

individual. It was alleged that the subject under investigation might be Dr.

Josef Mengele. ... The Department of External Affairs reported that it had a

record in respect of the individual, but that the individual had been born in

1928 in Canada.... ... Furthermore, the subject's name is not one of the

aliases used from time to time by Josef Mengele.

CASE NO. 561. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the RCMP, whose source of information was the Canadian Jewish Congress. It

was alleged that the subject was responsible for the deaths of "hundreds of

Jews." No specific evidence of the alleged war crimes was provided. ...

Records of the Department of Employment and Immigration ... indicate that the

subject was born in 1941....

CASE NO. 588.1. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the RCMP, who were investigating the suspicions of the Department of

Employment and Immigration officials that the individual might be older than he

claims and might be hiding a questionable past, which may have involved the

Nazi Party. ... It was verified [through various investigations] that the

subject is indeed who he claims to be and that he was indeed born in 1929. He

was barely 10 years old at the start of the war.

Sol Littman's Mengele Scare

As another piece of evidence that we are in the midst of a witch hunt a witch hunt in which

Simon Wiesenthal plays the role of chief inquisitor - consider Sol Littman's Mengele Scare. On

December 20, 1984, Mr. Littman - Canadian representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center - wrote

to the Prime Minister of Canada unequivocally affirming that

Mengele, employing the alias of Dr. Joseph Menke, applied to the Canadian

embassy in Buenos Aires for admission to Canada as a landed immigrant in late

May or early June, 1962. (In Jules Deschenes, Commission of Inquiry on War

Criminals, 1986, p. 67)

Then on January 23, 1985, Ralph Blumenthal wrote an article in the New York Times captioned

"Records indicate Mengele sought Canadian visa":