Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

LARZLO CSATSRY... WANTED NAZI , WW II

László Csatáry (Hungarian: [ˈlaːsloː ˈt͡ʃɒtaːri]; 5 March 1915 – 10 August 2013)was a Hungarian citizen and an alleged Nazi war criminal, convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in 1948 by a Czechoslovak court. In 2012, his name was added to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals.Csatáry was born in Mány in 1915.In 1944 he was the Royal Hungarian Police[5] assistant to the commander in the city of Kassa in Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia). He was accused of organizing the deportation of approximately 15,700 Jews to Auschwitzand of having inhumanely exercised his authority in a forced labor camp.He was also accused of brutalizing the inhabitants of the city.

He was convicted in absentia for war crimes in Czechoslovakia in 1948 and sentenced to death. He fled to Canada in 1949, claiming to be a Yugoslav national and settled in Montreal, where he became an art dealer.He became a Canadian citizen in 1955.In 1997, his Canadian citizenship was revoked by the federal Cabinet for lying on his citizenship application.He left the country two months later but was never charged with war crimes in Canada. An extensive criminal reference check was done on him with no evidence of war crimes there.

A file prepared by the Simon Wiesenthal Center about Csatáry implicated him in the deportation of 300 people from Kassa in 1941. In August 2012 the Budapest Prosecutor's Office dropped the charges, saying Csatáry was not in Kassa at the time and lacked the rank to organize the transports. In January 2013 it was reported that Slovak police had found a witness to corroborate other charges relating to the deportation of 15,700 Jews from Kassa from May 1944.Czechoslovakia had abolished the death penalty in 1990. Accordingly, on 28 March 2013, the Slovak County Court in Košice changed the 1948 verdict in Csatáry's case from the death penalty to life imprisonment.Csatáry died on 10 August 2013 from pneumonia at a hospital in Budapest, aged 98. According to daily Bors, Csatáry had been hospitalized for a long time, where he caught pneumonia.