Australia and six former communist countries are failing to investigate and prosecute suspected Nazi war criminals, largely due to a lack of political will, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's just-released annual report, which graded the countries around the world between April 2007 and March 2008. The Nazi-hunting group said the same holds true for Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine also face no legal obstacles in bringing suspects to justice.
Efraim Zuroff, the center's chief Nazi hunter, wrote, "In analyzing the results presented in this report, the critical importance of political will in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice is increasingly evident."