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Arresting a wanted war criminal, as Mengele was in 1961, would have involved Swiss federal police.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The question of the day seems to be whether Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2025

Rights advocates argue that McBride’s conviction and sentencing before any alleged war criminal he helped expose reflected a lack of whistleblower protections in Australia.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

The original art for one EC story, “Master Race,” about a postwar encounter between a Nazi war criminal and a Holocaust survivor, sold for $600,000 at Heritage Auctions in 2018.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024

But if we could catch this rascally war criminal, Crockett ... however, I fear he has escaped us.

From Remember the Alamo! by Fehrenbach, T. R.