Late justice • Nazi war criminal Heinrich Bora died in prison

Nazi war criminal Heinrich Bora, died last night (Monday) at the prison clinic Froniidnberg Germany.

Bora was the 92-year-old prisoner in the country who died of organ failure.


"Late justice often sends a very strong message about the crimes of the Nazis in the Holocaust," said Efraim Zuroff, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center director, told The Associated Press. "The thought that Bora ended his life at a prison clinic and not as a free man – is comforting."

Bora was son to a Dutch father and German mother, and a member of the Dutch volunteer unit Waffen - SS.

Suspected that members of the unit killed more than fifty people.

Bora was captured after the war by U.S. forces, but he managed to flee to Germany.

He was sentenced in 1949 in absentia for murder, and the court sentenced him to the death penalty, later commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.

The State requested the extradition of Germany in 1980, but German courts refused to approve his extradition, claiming that his conviction is invalid.

Bora was put on a wanted Nazi Wiesenthal Centre and German prosecutors arrested him and he was tried in Aachen.

Bora admitted murdering three people, a pharmacist, a bike shop owner, and another man

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