European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine John lotto to Bents tracking Down Western bureaucrats who helped spirit nazi officers end sympathizers to safety a the West As anti communist informants after world War ii. Probing . Collaboration with fugitive by Brian Murphy associated press sometimes John Loftus wishes to had simply walked out of the classified government vaults 10 years ago and hurried his Back forever on his knowledge of nazis living quietly in inc United states. By this Lime Loftus figures he could have been a Veteran Justice department prosecutor or perhaps he might have started a lucrative Law practice in his Home stale d Massachusetts. He thinks he might have even spared his wife a disabling injury and thai to might have been Able to keep his spacious Home in Roef Cland mass. Instead. Loftus search into documents showing nazi of slicers and sympathizers smuggled to the West As anti communist informants led to his resignation from a special Federal nazi prosecution unit in 1981, thai s when he began his one Man probe Inlo the government s collaboration with fugitive nazis his quest a a been costly. Loftus research and Ira vet is barely covered by his Magazine articles and royalties from his 1982 Book. The Belarus secret. Which chronicles the paths Laken to the West by nazis who led the massacre of nearly 10.000 jews in the byelorussian Section of Eastern Europe his wife was Toft Par tally crippled attera19b3attack at a Psychia Luc Hospital where she had Token a Job to help pay Bills. He Hod to put his Home up Lor Sale a Kentucky based for Zoilus work does t even Clysel phone Bills says. God i think often about what in would to like in i just walked out of thai vault says the 38-year-old Lotus. My family would be healthy. I would t be constantly on the Edge of bankruptcy. But i think in t would have done that i would have been ashamed for the rest of my life Lotus the crusader was once a comfortable insider with a stepping Stone resume. Like Many Irish Catholic boys he went from Boson latin school to Jesuit run Boston College where to took political science classes with other aspiring attorneys and Public servants. Alter graduating irom Suffolk Law school in Boson in 1977, he accepted an Honor s placement in the Justice department. Loftus was moving up the Justice department ranks when he noticed a posting in 1979 seeking applicants for the office of special investigations created to find and Deport War criminals. I joined Osi for purely selfish Loftus says " thought being a nazi prosecutor would be Good for my career and i might even get a free trip to Germany out of it. But in was my honest tooling that it was a waste of Tho government s Money to reopen cases against 60-year-old men Lor crimes committed 40 years ago. I thought we had More important targets. I knew nothing about the holocaust like most americans. There were six sentences about Tho holocaust and War crimes in All my Public Loftus education began with his lira cases. To was assigned Osi files connected to byelorussian of in the Russia a Section of the Soviel Union occupied by the nazis from 1941 to 19
