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Simon Wiesenthal: Fraudulent Nazi hunter Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.” (Georges Braque) “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:” (Exodus 23:2 KJV)“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” (Colossians 2:8 KJV) The story By Mark Weber For more than 40 years, Simon Wiesenthal has been tracking hundreds of Nazi criminals from his Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. For his work as the worlds most prominent Nazi hunter, he has been awarded several honorary degrees and numerous medals, including Germanys highest decoration. In a formal White House ceremony in August 1980, a teary-eyed President Carter presented him with a special gold medal awarded by the US Congress. President Reagan praised him in November 1988 as one of the true heroes of this century. Simon Wiesenthal This living legend was portrayed in flattering terms by the late Laurence Oliver in the 1978 film fantasy The Boys From Brazil, and by Ben Kingsley in the 1989 HBO made-for-television movie Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story. One of worlds most prominent Holocaust organizations bears his name: the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles. Wiesenthals reputation as a moral authority is undeserved. The man whom?The Washington Post?has called the Holocausts Avenging Angel?/1?has a little known but well-documented record of reckless disregard for truth. He has lied about his own wartime experiences, misrepresented his postwar Nazi-hunting achievements, and has spread vile falsehoods about alleged German atrocities. Different stories Szymon (Simon) Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908, in Buczacz, a town in the province of Galicia (now Buchach in Ukraine) in what was then the eastern fringe of the Austro-Hungarian empire. His father was a prosperous wholesale sugar merchant. In s