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Key People

Wiesenthal, Simon

Simon Wiesenthal

writer

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LaFayette Curry Baker

United States general

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Serge Klarsfeld

French political activist

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Beate Kunzel Klarsfeld

German-French political activist

Leader of the “Untouchables”

Eliot Ness

American crime fighter