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Simon Wiesenthal Was a Liar

The head Nazi-hunter’s trail of lies

The London Times | July 19, 2009

UPDATE: The article was removed from the source site on August 14, 2009.

Simon Wiesenthal, famed for his pursuit of justice, caught fewer war criminals than he claimed and fabricated much of his own Holocaust story.

Since the early 1960s Simon Wiesenthal’s name has become synonymous with Nazi hunting. His standing is that of a secular saint. Nominated four times for the Nobel peace prize, the recipient of a British honorary knighthood, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Légion d’honneur and at least 53 other …