Nazi hunters are making a push to capture the last remaining war criminals 70 years after the end of World War II.  Their message is that it is “Late but not too late.”

The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center is hanging 2,000 posters on the streets of major German cities this week, urging people to come forward with information on the last perpetrators of the Holocaust.  Investigators are offering rewards of up to A$35,000 for information leading to the capture and conviction of such criminals.

“We expect to get tips about people who served in the death camps or in Einsatzgruppen (mobile death squads) and in that way to help bring them to justice,” said the center’s Efraim Zuroff.

“But of course you realize that such a campaign also raises public interest (and serves) as a reminder of the importance to bring those people to justice.”

Zuroff says that only about 60 possible defendants are still alive.  But he dismisses the idea that they should be shown clemency given their advanced age.

“In my 33 years of hunting Nazis, I never once had a case of a Nazi who ever said he was sorry,” Zuroff said.

He points to the 2011 conviction of former Sobibor camp guard John Demjanjuk for helping the Nazis kill almost 30,000 Jews as proof that it’s never too late to put a war criminal where they belong:  Behind bars for life.

In May of this year, German police arrested former Auschwitz guard Hans Lipschis, age 93, on charges of complicity in mass murder.  And Budapest prosecutors charged 98-year old Laszlo Lajos Csatari with organizing the deportation of 12,000 Jews to death camps.