On September 2, 1945, the Nazis were in fear. Some escaped charges, while others were trying to fake innocence. The Nuremberg trials had only tried 24 high-ranked and 183 common ranked Nazis. The rest were not “found”. Some of these Nazis fled to other countries, some hid, and a few committed suicides to escape trial. 

Christopher Klein, an author, writer, and journalist stated this in one of his articles “ After World War II ended, Eichmann went into hiding in Austria. With the aid of a Franciscan monk in Genoa, Italy, he obtained an Argentine visa and signed an application for a falsified Red Cross passport. In 1950 he boarded a steamship to Buenos Aires under the alias Ricardo Klement. Eichmann lived with his wife and four children in a middle-class Buenos Aires suburb and worked in a Mercedes-Benz automotive plant.” Adolf Eichmann was a World War II general and Hitler's right-hand man. He evaded trial in Nuremberg, but an unexpected turn of events came his way. Christopher Klein writes “Israeli Mossad agents captured Eichmann in a daring operation on May 11, 1960, then snuck him out of the country by doping and disguising him as an El Al flight crew member. Eichmann stood trial as a war criminal in Israel responsible for deporting Jews to death and concentration camps. After a four-month trial in Jerusalem, he was found guilty and received the only death sentence ever issued by an Israeli court. He was hanged on May 31, 1962.” This is only one example of many of these cases, many Nazis were never even found or charged.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Another example is Josef Mengele who was a Nazi doctor who experimented on children. He was nicknamed the “ Angel of Death”. He also hid during the Nuremberg trials but he was never found. Holocaust Encyclopedia reports“ In the immediate postwar period, Mengele was in US custody. Unaware that Mengele's name already stood on a list of wanted war criminals, US officials quickly released him. From the summer of 1945 until spring 1949, using false papers, Mengele worked as a farmhand near Rosenheim, Bavaria. His prosperous family then aided his emigration to South America. He settled in Argentina.” Many of the Nazis could have been captured but they slipped right through their hands and some of the Nazis that went into hiding were helped by important world leaders who agreed with the Nazi regime.