“Nazi Hunter” to hunt down Russian war criminals in Ukraine

in New York

There was no dispute about the choice. when America’s Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed on June 21 the upcoming dispatch of a team of investigators to Ukraine to identify and indict Russian war criminals, the mention of Eli Rosenbaum came as no surprise to anyone in Washington.

With a bushy moustache, crew cut and long face, this 67-year-old New York lawyer has devoted his entire career to tracking former Nazi refugees across the Atlantic from the corridors of the Justice Department and extraditing them to Germany. other requesting country. Beginning in 1979 as a plainclothes officer in the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Eli Rosenbaum oversaw 130 investigations and completed 109 cases. Hence, 109 ex-Nazis found in the four corners of America as they peacefully retired to the New World.

Priesthood and personal crusade, though he…