Where Have All The Nazis Gone? Quiz

Answer: South America

There are two main conspiracy theories about Hitler's death, one that he fled to Argentina, and one that he moved to Brazil. They flourish due to the fact that it was the Soviet Union that allegedly found his corpse, and the Soviet Union was known for being secretive. Also, Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele escaped to Argentina before dying off the coast of Brazil, which seems to make it less implausible that Hitler might have escaped too.

Answer: Martin Bormann

Bormann was a high level Nazi who served as Hitler's secretary. It seems that he was killed on May 2nd, 1945, while trying to leave Berlin. Since his remains were not found until 1972, he was assumed to be alive at the time of the Nuremberg Trials, and was tried in absentia at Nuremberg. For his role in running the Nazi party, he was sentenced to death.

Answer: Gestapo Trial

The 'Follow-Up' Nuremberg Trials were held by the United States. Many of them were grouped according to what kind of function or job the accused had played in the Nazi régime, but some, such as the Milch trial, were for only one person. The Gestapo, though considered a criminal organization by the United States, was not tried as an entity, though various Gestapo members were tried after World War II.

Answer: Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann was a middle ranking SS officer who played a key role in organizing the Holocaust. He escaped to Argentina in 1950, where he lived for the next 10 years. In 1960 the Mossad, the Intelligence Agency of Israel, captured him. He was put on trial in Israel, and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1962.

Answer: Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele was a camp doctor at Auschwitz, where he worked mainly in human experimentation. Many of his experiments were on twins, doing cruel acts such as conjoining twins and sawing limbs off. After the war, he fled Germany through Austria and later escaped to South America, moving around the continent to avoid capture before he drowned in 1979.

Answer: He committed suicide immediately after the war

Much of Bernhard Rust's work involved brainwashing children into believing Nazi ideology. For instance, Rust created dishonest textbooks to show nonexistent anatomical differences between Aryans and Jews in order to try to convince children of the Nazi belief in white supremacy. Fearing what would happen if he remained alive, Rust committed suicide after World War II.

Answer: Life in prison

After the war, Klaus Barbie escaped to Bolivia with alleged help from the U.S. Government and lived there for much of his life. He was eventually captured there in 1983 and eventually extradited to France for trial. Although his lawyer pointed out that France had a history of committing war crimes, Barbie was still sentenced to life in prison in 1987 and died in 1991.

Answer: Germany

John Demjanjuk was born in 1920 in Ukraine and served at Sobibor and probably also other extremination camps. He moved to the United States in 1952, but was extradited to Israel due to his Nazi Party involvement. He was sentenced to death in Israel, but since his ID card was suspicious and possibly faked, and it was unclear which camp(s) he had worked at, he was acquitted and went back to the United States.

He was then extradited to Germany due to further evidence proving he was a different Nazi, and sentenced to five years. Since he died while appealing, he is innocent under German law.

Answer: Czechoslovakia

László Csatáry was a Nazi who was accused of planning out how to send Jews to Auschwitz and being a brutal concentration camp guard. In 2013, the 1948 Czechoslovak ruling was changed from death to life in prison in Slovakia to accommodate the abolition of the death penalty in both parts of the former Czechoslovakia.

He was captured in June 2013, but died in August 2013 before he could be put on trial.

Answer: He was born in Austria

Though many Nazis were from Austria, Globke hailed from Düsseldorf, Germany. He was unable to join the Nazi Party, because he had a background in the Centre Party, which had been in opposition to the Nazis during the Weimar Republic. During the Nazi period, despite not actually being a Nazi party memeber, Globke played a key role in writing the commentaries that prescribed how the Reich Citizenship Law (1935), which in effect deprived German Jews of citizenship, was to be interpreted.

He formulated the order requiring German Jews who didn't have obviously 'Jewish' given names to add Israel or Sara to their names, and he issued the order requiring the identity papers of German Jews to be stamped with a large red J.

As if that were not enough, he then went on to define what was meant by 'sexual relations' in the Nazi law forbidding sex between Germans and Jews.

He provided a very broad definition and explicitly included, for example, mutual masturbation! After World War II, he became an aide to the West German leader Konrad Adenauer.

His appointment was very controversial, both in Germany and abroad.