Editing The Holocaust (section)

==Aftermath==
{{Quote|The Holocaust is very much alive. The wounds are still there. The scars are still there. The influence is still there.|Avner Shalev}}After all the concentration camps were liberated by the Americans, British/Canadians, and the Soviets; most of highest members of the Nazi party and the SS were standing on trial in the Nuremberg trials. Many that were involved in the Holocaust were sentenced to death for [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]], only a few were sentenced to prison, for example [[August Becker]], [[Albert Speer]] and [[Rudolf Hess]] (who committed suicide in Spandau Prison in 1987 at age 93.)

Other Nazis that were involved in the genocide, such as [[Hermann Göring]] and [[Heinrich Himmler]], committed suicide before they even got to trial; others such as [[Amon Göth]] were captured and put into Soviet gulags or were executed. Still others, such as [[Adolf Eichmann]], [[Franz Stangl]], and [[Klaus Barbie]], remained on the lam for decades before being captured.

Some Nazis were able to evade capture entirely. Here are several notable Nazis who were never captured:
*[[Josef Mengele]] managed to stay in hiding and died in Brazil in 1979 without ever facing justice.
*[[Martin Bormann]] would die shortly after the war ended but his remains would go unidentified for three decades. It is believed that he was killed by Soviet troops as he tried to flee Berlin.
*[[Heinrich Müller]] vanished completely and was never seen alive again; his ultimate fate remains unknown to this day.
*[[Alois Brunner]] fled into [[exile]] in the Middle East, first going to Egypt then later to Syria, where he was allegedly protected by President [[Hafez al-Assad]], and then by [[Bashar al-Assad]] when he succeeded Hafez. He died either in 2001 or 2010.
*[[Aribert Heim]] settled in Cairo, Egypt and lived there in hiding until his death in 1992.
*[[Kurt Becher]] was never charged with any offence and was only called as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials due to his having accepted bribes to ignore Jews escaping.