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This analysis had been supported by the opinions of the American Counterintelligence Corps and Office of Strategic Services when they examined his records right after the war. The center helped with the campaign to remove the statute of limitations on Nazi crimes and continues the hunt for suspected Nazi war criminals but today its primary activities include Holocaust remembrance education and fighting antisemitism. In a press conference a short time after the election and Wiesenthal's revelations Kreisky said Wiesenthal used "the methods of a quasi-political Mafia.
He opened the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna in 1961 and continued to try to locate missing Nazi war criminals. After being forced to work as a slave labourer in Nazi concentration camps such as Janowska Plaszow and Mauthausen during the war Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazi war criminals so that they could be brought to trial. Shortly after Bruno Kreisky was inaugurated as Austrian chancellor in April 1970 Wiesenthal pointed out to the press that four of his new cabinet appointees had been members of the Nazi Party.
