Operation Last Chance, a final bid to bring Nazi war criminals to justice more than 60 years after the end of WWII.

I wondered if there was effort still officially in place to continue hunting down any of the (possible) survivors nowadays, as I recall some news coverage a few years ago, relating the running down of the most well known campaigns.

Israel's chief Nazi hunter has gone to Chile to step up the hunt for the most wanted Nazi fugitive, believed to be in the country or neighbouring Argentina. Efraim Zuroff says new information strongly suggests Aribert Heim - known as Dr Death - is hiding in Patagonia, where his daughter lives. Heim tortured and killed prisoners in Mauthausen concentration camp in WWII.

This news item caught my eye this morning because we've just been treated to the 1980's short TV series "Kessler", which featured the highest ranking Nazi escapees as part of its plot, and the huge fortune they had laid away for a future resurgence, including Mengele. I wasn't familiar with Heim, and had initially wondered if the story (when I followed the headline to the details) was going to reveal something that suggested they were on the trail of Josef Mengele - know as the Angel of Death, medical officer of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and confirmed dead by DNA tests in 1985.

Given the "Kessler" storyline, I was drawn to the following account given in the news item...

Although he would now be 94, they believe Heim is still alive because his family has yet to claim around $1.6m sitting in a German bank account in his name, says the BBC's Gideon Long in Santiago.

Let's call that a round £800,000 - where did that come from? More than most folk will have buried away nowadays, and he would have amassed this decades ago, wjen it would have been over £1 million, and a "real" milliion at that, not the devalued million that seems to be so easy (for some) to make nowadays.