List of most-wanted Nazi war criminals
Since 2002, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center has produced an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which, since at least 2004, has included a list of "most-wanted" criminals who had never been convicted. The list was last updated in 2018.
2018 list
The following Nazi war criminals were facing possible prosecution as of 2019, according to the 2018 list of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.| Name | Listed | Country of residence when listed | Notes |
| Helmut Oberlander | 2012–2018 | Canada | Oberlander served in Einsatzkommando 10A, which murdered an estimated 23,000 mostly Jewish civilians in Ukraine. He moved to Canada after the war, settling in Waterloo, Ontario where he worked as a real-estate developer. Beginning in 1995, the Government of Canada made several attempts to revoke Oberlander's citizenship and have him deported. In December 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear Oberlander's latest appeal, clearing the way for his deportation. In February 2020, however, Oberlander was still in Canada and had in fact filed a new appeal against his planned deportation. |
| Kurt Gosdek | 2018 | Germany | Gosdek served in Einsatzgruppe C and was accused of being involved in the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine, including at Babi Yar. |
| Herbert Wahler | 2018 | Germany | Wahler served in Einsatzgruppe C and was accused of being involved in the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine, including at Babi Yar. |
| Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoffmeister | 2018 | Germany | Hoffmeister served in Einsatzgruppe C and was accused of being involved in the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine, including at Babi Yar. |
| Dominyk Delta | 2018 | United States | Delta was an officer in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion, which is accused of murdering Polish civilians in Chłaniów in July 1944. His unit was also involved in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. Delta went on to serve in the Waffen-SS Galician Division. He moved to the United States after the war, settling in Minneapolis. Delta's background was uncovered in a 2013 report by the Associated Press, prompting investigations in Germany and Poland. German authorities closed his case in 2015 after they deemed Delta unfit to stand trial. Polish authorties requested Delta's extradition in 2017. He died in Minneapolis on 14 December 2019 at the age of 100. |
| Algimantas Dailidė | 2004–2018 | Germany | Dailidė served in the Lithuanian Security Police in Vilnius and took part in the persecution of Polish Jews in the Vilna Ghetto. He emigrated to the United States after the war and lived in Cleveland, Ohio and Florida. Dailidė was stripped of his citizenship in the 1990s and deported to Germany in 2004, after which he settled in Kirchberg, Saxony. He was subsequently convicted of war crimes by a Vilnius court, but in 2008 was deemed unfit to serve time in prison due to his poor health. |
| Jakiw "Jakob" Palij | 2016–2018 | United States | Born in a Polish village within modern-day Ukraine, Palij volunteered for the SS and served as a guard at the Trawniki SS training camp. He moved to the United States after the war, settling in Queens, New York City. Palij was identified as a camp guard in 1993 and had his US citizenship revoked in 2003, rendering him stateless. He was deported to Germany in August 2018 after a 14-year deportation battle. Palij died in January 2019 in Ahlen at the age of 95. |