FACTBOX:Simon Weisenthal's top ten WW2 war criminals
(Reuters) - An alleged World War Two war criminal living in Australia is eligible for extradition to Hungary to face justice, an Australian court ruled on Wednesday.
Charles Zentai, 86, who ranks seventh on a list of the 10 most-wanted war criminals compiled by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre, has been under investigation since 2005.
Here are some details about the 10 accused.
1. Dr. Aribert Heim
-- A doctor with Adolf Hitler's SS, Heim, known as Dr Death, removed organs from victims without anesthetic; he killed hundreds at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria with injections of poison or gasoline straight to the heart.
-- On the run since 1962; his family says he died in 1993. Investigators say he may be in Chilean or Argentine Patagonia.
2. Ivan Demjanjuk, U.S.
-- Accused in 1977 of being the infamous "Ivan the Terrible", a Treblinka extermination camp guard, he was extradited to Israel and sentenced to death, then freed on subsequent evidence.
-- Returning to the United States in 1993, his citizenship was revoked in 2002, as a court ruled that even if he was not "Ivan" ample evidence proved the Ukraine native was a guard in three SS camps.
3. Dr. Sandor Kepiro, Hungary
-- Kepiro was in a Hungarian gendarme unit that raided partisan forces in occupied Serbia, and was accused of taking part in the killing of more than 1,000 civilians in January 1942.
-- Sentenced to 10 years in jail in 1944; both that verdict, and his acquittal later the same year, came when Hungary was under fascist rule and an ally of Nazi Germany.
-- In 2007 a Hungarian court ruled the then 93-year-old could not be investigated as his murder conviction had been overturned.
4. Milivoj Asner, Austria
-- Alleged to have been a senior security official during the 1941-45 rule of Croatia's pro-Nazi Ustasha regime, Asner says he ordered wartime deportations of Jews and Serbs to their homelands, not to death camps in Croatia.
-- Taking Austrian citizenship after the war, he was found living in Croatia in 2005, and subsequently returned to Austria, which has rejected a Croatian extradition request.
5. Soeren Kam, Germany
-- The Danish-born former SS member is accused of actively helping Nazi forces in Denmark, and of the 1943 murder of anti-Nazi Danish journalist Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Copenhagen.
-- Kam fled to Germany after the war, obtaining German citizenship in 1956. Following his 2006 arrest, a German court delayed a decision on his extradition to Denmark.
6. Heinrich Boere, Germany
-- Accused of killing three Dutch civilians in 1944 as a member of an SS hit squad that targeted anti-Nazi resistance fighters, Boere confessed after being captured by U.S. forces.
-- Escaping and fleeing to Germany, he was sentenced to death in absentia in Holland in 1949. After refusing a 1980 Dutch extradition request, a German court indicted him in April 2008.
7. Karoly Zentai, Australia
-- Zentai is accused of killing an 18-year-old Jewish man in a prison camp in Budapest in 1944 and of helping dump his body.
-- He emigrated to Australia in the early 1950s. Hungarian authorities have been seeking his extradition since 2005.
8. Mikhail Gorshkow, Estonia
-- Alleged to have been an interrogator for the Nazi Gestapo, he is accused of helping kill about 3,000 men, women and children in the Slutsk ghetto in Minsk, Belarus.
-- Estonian-born Gorshkow became a U.S. citizen in 1953 but was denaturalized in 2002 and is under investigation in Estonia.
9. Algimantas Dailide, Germany
-- Dailide volunteered for Lithuania's Nazi-backed secret police, the Saugumas, but said he was only a humble clerk.
-- Entering the United States in 1950, he worked as a real estate agent. In March 2006 Lithuania convicted the then 86-year-old of seizing Jewish property and arresting 12 attempting to flee during World War Two. He received no sentence as he was judged too old and no longer a threat to society.
10. Harry Mannil, Venezuela
-- The Caracas-based auto sales millionaire and member of Venezuelan high society is accused of arresting Jews and communists who were later executed by the Nazis while serving in Estonia's political police force during the Nazi occupation.
-- Cleared of the accusations by the Estonian government, he remains on a U.S. watch list barring him from entering the United States.
">herenN8LzH&b=245494&ct=5318433) (Writing by Gillian Murdoch, Beijing Editorial Reference Unit)
