AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The Netherlands has issued an arrest warrant for a Dutch-born Nazi war criminal now living in Germany, authorities said.
Klaas-Carel Faber, 88, was sentenced to death in 1947 for the deaths of Jews at the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands but had his term commuted to life, the BBC reported Thursday.
Faber escaped from prison in 1952, was given German citizenship and now lives in Bavaria.
The warrant is a preliminary step before a formal extradition request is made to Germany, the Netherlands public prosecutor's office said in a statement.
"We are hopeful and we think that it is important, so that he can at last go to jail. We don't know if we'll be successful," spokeswoman Tineke Zwart told the BBC.
Faber, originally from the Dutch town of Haarlem, served in an SS unit known as Kommando Feldmeijer during World War II, notorious for killing around 50 Dutch civilians considered "anti-German."
For years, Germany has refused his extradition on the grounds that he is a German citizen.
Dutch and German justice ministers have discussed Faber's extradition, although the final decision will be up to a German judge, the BBC said.
Klaas-Carel Faber, 88, was sentenced to death in 1947 for the deaths of Jews at the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands but had his term commuted to life, the BBC reported Thursday.
Faber escaped from prison in 1952, was given German citizenship and now lives in Bavaria.
The warrant is a preliminary step before a formal extradition request is made to Germany, the Netherlands public prosecutor's office said in a statement.
"We are hopeful and we think that it is important, so that he can at last go to jail. We don't know if we'll be successful," spokeswoman Tineke Zwart told the BBC.
Faber, originally from the Dutch town of Haarlem, served in an SS unit known as Kommando Feldmeijer during World War II, notorious for killing around 50 Dutch civilians considered "anti-German."
For years, Germany has refused his extradition on the grounds that he is a German citizen.
Dutch and German justice ministers have discussed Faber's extradition, although the final decision will be up to a German judge, the BBC said.