The following is a transcript of the NY Times article written by Irving Speigel in 1967
March 28, 1967
Hitler Aide Uses a Double, Wiesenthal Reports
Simon Wiesenthal, who has tracked down 1,000 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann, said yesterday that Martin Bormann, Hitler’s deputy, was still at large and utilized “a double”.
“Bormann,” Mr. Wiesenthal said, “travels freely through Chile, Paraguay and Brazil. He had a strong organization dedicated to aiding other Nazi war criminals to evade authorities.”
Mr. Wiesenthal, said that Bormann “uses five or six names . . . he has many friends, money. I get reports on him simultaneously from two places too far apart to let there be just one man.”
Among those Nazi criminals still at large, whose whereabouts he does not know, Mr. Wiesenthal said, are Heinrich Mueller, chief of the Gestapo, and Richard Gluecks, head of the concentration camps.
Mr. Wiesenthal’s chief interest right now is the apprehension of Bormann, Mueller and Gluecks.
At a news conference at the offices of the Anti-Defamation league of B’nal B’rith, 315 Lexington Avenue, Mr. Wiesenthal said there might be as many as 16,000 Nazi war criminals still living either openly or in hiding in various parts of the world.
The 58-year-old Mr. Wiesenthal, once an architect in his native Poland, is visiting the United States in connection with his book, “The Murderers Among Us.” It will be published this week by McGraw-Hill. The book was edited by Joseph Wechsberg. This is Mr. Wiesenthal’s first trip here.
Not Motivated by Revenge
Mr. Wiesenthal said his job of tracking down Nazi criminals was not motivated by revenge. He performed his work “to seek justice for those six million Jewish men, women and children who died in the Nazi death camps.”
This task has occupied him with an almost around-the-clock devotion since his release from the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945 by the United States Army.
He said he had a personal list of more than 22,000 war criminals in his Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna. The centre is supported by modest contributions from Jews. he has a staff of 16.
Mr. Wiesenthal was asked if there was any difference between a major and a small time Nazi criminal. He said: “To my mind the Nazi who shoots two children without an order is worse than someone who kills 300 on command.”
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