Registry for Sex Offenders Pushed

A German political leader said that a central registry used to hunt Nazi war criminals could become a model for a new system to track down and prosecute sex offenders. “This model has proved its worth in the past with the investigation of Nazi crimes,” Rita Suessmuth, president of the German Parliament, wrote in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. Thousands of Nazi criminals were brought to justice after World War II with the aid of a central investigation agency in Ludwigsburg, which assisted local prosecutors in collecting evidence and preparing charges.