Trial for Elusive Nazi
published 02/09/1999
PARIS, Sept. 1— After a 12-year investigation, a French judge today ordered Alois Brunner, a Nazi war
criminal who has not been seen alive since 1992, to be tried in absentia.
The trial would examine what role the former Gestapo officer played in the deportation of more than 250 Jewish children from France to Nazi death camps.
Mr. Brunner, a former top aide to Adolf Eichmann who was last seen living in Syria, is believed responsible for sending more than 80,000 Jews from
Austria, Greece, Slovakia and France to death camps.