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Witness History: The millionaire Nazi war criminal

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18/03/2019 GMT

The millionaire Nazi war criminal

BBC World Service - Witness History, The millionaire Nazi war criminal

How the Dutch art collector Pieter Menten was exposed as a war criminal in the 1970s

How a journalist revealed that one of the wealthiest men in the Netherlands was in fact a Nazi war criminal.

The story of how one of the wealthiest men in the Netherlands was exposed as a Nazi war criminal. In the 1970s, Pieter Menten was a respected art dealer, but it was revealed that during the Second World War, he had led mass killings in eastern Poland. We hear from Dutch journalist, Hans Knoop, whose investigation into Menten caused a national scandal and finally led to the millionaire's arrest.

Photo: Pieter Menten photographed in 1977.(credit: National Archives of the Netherlands)

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