Nazi hunters head to Ecuador

Two investigators from the German government’s official Nazi-hunting agency are heading to Ecuador.

The pair are due to investigate allegations made by local author Francisco Nuñez del Arco that the South American nation may have been the hiding place of up to 10 important war criminals and several hundred more of lower rank.

In an email, the Ecuadorean embassy in Berlin confirmed to GlobalPost that prosecutor Kurt Schrimm and police detective Uwe Steinz would soon visit Quito, with the Ecuadorean government’s blessing, although no date has yet been set.

From Germany’s Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, the pair will be focusing on government archives and public registries in an attempt to track down surviving suspects, if there are any, but also to get at the historical truth of how Nazi war criminals found refuge in the South American nation.

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6512875/2015/04/11/nazi-hunters-head-ecuador

I'm sure Correa will welcome these investigators. Just ignore his "Heil Hitler" tweet last week.