The Nazi 'Arab Ratline': How Hitler's WWII monsters found refuge in Syria and Egypt after escaping Germany Alois Brunner, Franz Stangl, Gustav Wagner, Aribert Heim - all of them Nazi monsters who deserved the worst of punishments.
Above: Inmates at the Drancy camp] Whether it was aiding the missile programme of Egypt's leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, or advising the Syria's Assad regime on torture, many proved to be useful.
But these men were just four of the many war criminals of the Holocaust who found refuge in Syria and Egypt after escaping justice following the Second World War.
But, regardless of whether or not they were helpful to their new benefactors, dozens of Nazis - many of them war criminals - found refuge in the Middle East.
But there were many other, less talented, apparatchiks who simply benefited from the Middle East's dictatorial regimes' willingness to give them a new home.
