Hunting Nazis has always required complex skills: a command of international law, a precise sense of the logistics of the Holocaust, a nose for archival discovery and the readiness to wear down shoes in pursuit of a suspect, reads Times Online Oct. 29.

This rare breed seems to be close to extinction. Public interest is waning and funding is very limited.

Mr Boere and John Demjanjuk (both over 90 now) will stand the trial on a charge of mass killings. The trial of a concentration camp guard Demjanjuk is due in Munich on November 30. Skeptics may wonder what will be achieved if the two old men are put behind bars?

The answer is, “It is the pursuit of truth that counts, not the nature of the punishment,” maintains Roger Boyes.

According to Boyes (Times journalist), “It has never been more essential to explain to a wider public the mechanics of mass murder: how orders are given and interpreted, how a sense of duty can mutate into killing someone. There is also a powerful moral obligation to demonstrate that killers, in or out of uniform, should be held responsible for their actions. These are fundamental lessons.”

“Nazi hunters are not redundant. They are essential in stirring memory and in setting civilization’s boundaries. That is why the trials are important — and why reporters must sit through them,” Boyes concludes.

Fascism felonies are condemned as crimes against humanity having no time limitation. Adolf Hitler — the ideologist of fascism, before lunching his sanguineous mission in Europe said: “Who remembers today of Armenian Genocide?” trying to justify his atrocities against many nations, including Jews.

Presently, many states have officially recognized Armenian Genocide as crime against humanity. In some countries denial of Genocide is being prosecuted.