After the war, Wiesenthal dedicated himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to being a voice for the 6 million Jews who died in the genocide.
In his 50 years hunting war criminals, Wiesenthal estimated 1100 Nazis were brought to justice. Among the most notorious were Fritz Stangl, the former commandant of the Treblinka death camp in Poland, Franz Murer, known as The Butcher of Wilno, and Adolf Eichmann, the SS official chiefly responsible for implementing Hitler's Final Solution.
But Wiesenthal's contribution to history was far more complex. For years, especially during the Cold War, when many wanted to forget the Holocaust, Wiesenthal was an insistent reminder that the evil acts of Hitler and his supporters had to be remembered and accounted for. He frequently called himself a "deputy for the dead".
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