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Hungarian war criminal

The native form of this personal name is Steiner Károly. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Charles Zentai (born Károly Steiner; October 8, – December 13, ) was a Hungarian-born resident of Australiaaccused of a Holocaust-related war crime.

He resided in Perth, Western Australia for many years after living in the American- and French-occupied zones of post-World War IIGermany.

He was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals until ^[1][2]

Background

Zentai, who denied the charges against him, was serving in the Hungarian Army as warrant officer at the time he was accused of having murdered Péter Balázs, an year-old Jewish man, in November ^[3] According to witnesses, Balázs was not wearing his yellow star on the train, a crime punishable by death in German-occupied Hungary at the time.

Zentai allegedly took him to an army barracks, beat