6. Charles Zentai
Charles Zentai served in World War II as warrant officer in the Hungarian Army. He is accused of having murdered 18-year old Péter Balázs, a Jewish man, in November 1944. As the story goes, Balazs was found riding a train without wearing his yellow star, which was a crime punishable by death in Hungary at the time. Zentai allegedly took Balázs to the barracks, beat him brutally to death, and threw his body into a river. Zentai went on to live a long life in Australia, and was only arrested for murder in 2005. Efforts to extradite him to Hungary to face trial failed, since such a thing as a “war crime” did not exist in Hungary at the time of the incident.
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