 Germany continues to shelter a former SS officer who is wanted for murder and for his alleged role in the deportation of hundreds of Jews to Nazi concentration camps. “Kam is on my list because in my estimation he is one of the top 10 Nazis that could feasibly be brought to trial” for war crimes, said Dr Zuroff, who is director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem.  COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish former Nazi officer and a war criminal on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's most wanted list has died, according to a death note in the German paper Allgauer Zeitung published at the weekend. The Dane had been a volunteer officer in the SS-Viking division and was judged to have been involved in the murder of Danish anti-Nazi newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen. Zuroff later said by telephone Kam had been on the center's list for the Clemmensen murder and not for giving Nazis a registry of Danish Jews to help forces deport them to concentration camps, an accusation Danish authorities could find no evidence for. “He was a fanatical Nazi and one of the highest-profile Danish Nazis during the war,” historian Claus Bundgård Christensen told DR Nyheder. “But what exactly he has done, we will probably never know,” he added. “I have strong personal opinions on this and I would prefer him not to be my neighbour.” 
 
 Kam was born in Copenhagen on Nov 2 1921 but fled his country after the war to take German citizenship in 1956. He has the dubious distinction of being the highest decorated Nazi Dane after being awarded the Knight’s Cross for his leadership of Danish SS men against the resistance of his countrymen. A Danish court case conducted straight after the war convicted him in absentia of the murder, together with another man who was executed.
– In what a top Nazi hunter calls a "terrible failure of the Bavarian judicial authorities," one of Denmark's most-wanted Nazis has died a free man at the age of 93. Soren Kam, one of the highest-profile Danish Nazis during World War II, was wanted in his homeland for the 1943 kidnap and murder of anti-Nazi newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen, the Copenhagen Post reports. He fled to Germany after the war and the country refused to extradite him back to Denmark after he was granted citizenship in 1956. Kam—who died on March 23, around two weeks after his wife, according to a death notice—also fought on the Eastern Front with the Waffen SS and was granted the Knight's Cross medal by Adolf Hitler in 1945. Kam, who was the Simon Wiesenthal Center's No. 5 most wanted war criminal, "should have finished his miserable life in jail, whether in Denmark or Germany," Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff tells Reuters, calling him a "totally unrepentant Nazi murderer." "The failure to hold him accountable will only inspire the contemporary heirs of the Nazis to consider following in his footsteps," Zuroff says. Kam successfully fought extradition attempts by claiming that he feared for his life and only shot Clemmensen after he was already dead, reports the Telegraph, which tracked Kam down to his home in a peaceful Munich suburb in 2007 and was confronted by his angry daughter. (Archaeologists recently found a hidden Nazi lair deep in the jungle.)