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FBI hunts war criminals long after WWII's end [audio 4min]

The U.S. government recently deported Elfriede Rinkel for working at a concentration camp during World War II -- even though, after the war, she married into a Jewish family and lived in San Francisco for decades without incident. FBI Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum talks with Mike Pesca about this deportation, and pursuing Nazis so long after the Holocaust.
Read entire article at NPR "Day to Day"