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I believe, however, that history will show the Waldheim affair was an anomaly and that Wiesenthal’s contribution to bringing the perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice was epic. It is simply beyond argument that he was among the first to put the idea of Nazi hunting on the map and to infuse it into the public consciousness.
As Segev so aptly noted: though Wiesenthal may have been “an angel with dirty wings,” it is also true that “his achievements were real even if his heroic aura was sometimes exaggerated.”
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