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Nazi War Criminal Escapes Prison, Goes to Work for Audi

Or, at least, this is how the story published by The Sun earlier this week goes in an exclusive article. Since being a war criminal is not something you would want to publicly advertise, The Sun says it tracked 88 year old Klaas Carel Faber in Ingolstadt, the place where he lives out his final days of his life.

According to the aforementioned source, Faber, a Dutch national, volunteered to join the SS in 1940. He began climbing Nazi ranks until he became an officer for the SD secret police. He moved on to become an executioner at Westerbork concentration camp.

In 1947, he was charged with killing 22 people and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment but apparently that didn't stop Faber for long. In 1952 he escaped from the Breda, Holland prison he was held in and flied to Germany.

This is when a time which shames Germany, as The Sun says, began. Faber got a job at the Ingolstadt-based manufacturer Audi, for which he worked for years as an office clerk. Now, in his retirement years, he drives a Volkswagen Golf.

Of course, we wondered how come a convicted, fugitive war criminal could get a job anywhere, let alone at a respectable business. The Sun says Faber is the fifth most-wanted Nazi fugitive and was put by the Simon Wiesenthal Center on the list of most important Nazi criminals still at large.

Despite repeated calls for extradition made by Britain and other countries, Faber was allowed to work and live in Germany after the dark years of war.

Apparently (and ironically), Faber is protected by a law adopted by Hitler himself in 1943 and never revoked. According to the so called Fuhrer's Law, any foreign Nazi volunteers will be granted German citizenship.

Last week, Germany announced Faber is immune from prosecution and extradition, as his crimes, classified as manslaughter in 2006 by German prosecutors, have reached their time limit.

"Klaas Faber is a German citizen and cannot be extradited for this,"
a unnamed German official was quoted as saying by The Sun.
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