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Some called him “the "deputy for the dead'' and "avenging archangel'' of the Holocaust” (times). I see him as a man who brings justice to power and prosecutes in the name of law and peace. Mr. Wiesenthal began his quest for justice in 1945. Wiesenthal brought many of infamous finds such as Adolf Eichmann a Nazi bureaucrat who implemented Hitler's Final Solution, the state-sponsored extermination of millions of Jews. Adolf Eichmann was found in Buenos Aires in 1960 and was sent to Israel in which he was prosecuted and hung for his war crimes. Simon Wiesenthal had helped to bring justice to 1,500 Nazi war criminals to trial for there actions that took place during the …show more content…
In SIMON WIESENTHAL: 1908 - 2005; He would never let us forget the St. Petersburg Times mentions, "When we come to the other world,'' Mr. Wiesenthal said he responded, "and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps, and they ask us, "What have you done?' there will be many answers. "You will tell them, "I became a jeweler.' "Another will say, "I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' "Another will say, "I built houses.' "But I will say, "I didn't forget you.' '' (times). Therefore, Wiesenthal is mentioning in he’s phrase that dead needed justice and a voice to go after those who have caused the pain, suffering, and inhumanity things to the millions of innocent lives taken in vein in which justice will one day be served to