Danish-born former SS officer Kam dies

A former SS officer accused of murdering an anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Copenhagen in 1943, has died in Germany.

Barbed wire fences surround detention buildings at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp

Barbed wire fences surround detention buildings at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp

Soren Kam, a former SS officer wanted for war crimes in his native Denmark, has died in Germany. He was 93.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre counted Kam among its top targets for the killing of an anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Copenhagen in 1943.

The centre's top Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kam had been "totally unrepentant" for his actions.

Kam was indicted by the Danish government for the murder of Carl Henrik Clemmensen.

The the Danish newspaper editor's bullet-riddled body was found by a roadside after he was seized from his home by three men, led by Kam.

Zuroff said Kam benefited from a Nazi-era law granting him German citizenship, and a German court's decision characterising his actions as manslaughter.

This prevented Kam from being extradited in what Zuroff called "a total travesty of justice".

Kam died on March 23 in Kempten, Bavaria, according to a death notice published on Saturday in the Kemptener Zeitung.

Kam's wife died on March 7. They are survived by their children.


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