Aribert Heim's crimes rank among the worst of the Holocaust, and after a hunt that has spanned almost half a century, Nazi-hunters believe they are closing in on him.
The search for the 94-year-old former SS medical officer has taken investigators from Germany all around the world. Besides his home country of Austria and Germany, where he lived after the war, tips have come from Uruguay, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil and Chile.
Nazi-hunters are now confident that Heim - who was known for his sadism as a doctor at the Nazi's Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria - is seeing out his twilight years near his daughter in southern Chile, or across the border in Argentine Patagonia, the region between the Andes and the south Atlantic.
Acting on information about Heim's whereabouts that he describes as "so significant that it has a high potential", Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's top Nazi-hunter, is heading for the Chilean town of Puerto Montt, 657 miles (1,058 km) south of the capital Santiago, where he says Heim's 64-year-old daughter lives.
He refuses to divulge the nature of the recent information.
Heim's daughter has said that her father died in 1993 in Argentina, but a death certificate has never been produced. Neither she nor her two brothers, who live in Germany, have claimed the estimated $1.5m (900,000 euros; $750,000) that sits in a European bank account in Heim's name.
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"He would then be extradited to Germany to stand trial assuming that his health permits. Everyone is fairly confident that it would go smoothly and quickly."
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For the hunter, Mr Zuroff, this will be his last trip to South America on the trail of the war criminals. He acknowledges that the last push might fail completely. But, for the moment, he is optimistic that he is closer to his prey than ever.
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Why is his money illegal?
