https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed New photos have emerged which for the first time show convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk at the Sobibor death camp, a Berlin archive confirmed Monday, although he always denied ever being there. https://www.thelocal.de/20200120/new-photos-show-convicted-nazi-guard-john-demjanjuk-at-sobibor Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:08:37 +0100 new-photos-show-convicted-nazi-guard-john-demjanjuk-at-sobibor Germany will open an investigation into some 50 Nazi guards at the former Auschwitz death camp for complicity in murder, media reports said over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.de/20130407/48977 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:22:00 +0200 48977 An 87-year-old former watchman at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp could face charges of helping to gas to death at least 344,000 people – on the same legal premise as the conviction of former camp guard John Demjanjuk. https://www.thelocal.de/20120820/44473 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:21:00 +0200 44473 The son of former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk accused German doctors Wednesday of performing a "medical execution" and called for an investigation into his father's death at a nursing home. https://www.thelocal.de/20120614/43151 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:20:00 +0200 43151 The body of former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, convicted of more than 27,000 counts of accessory to murder, will be returned to the US where his family lives, a German undertaker said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20120321/41467 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:11:00 +0100 41467 German prosecutors said Friday that they have withdrawn a demand for ex-Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk to return to jail pending appeals of his conviction for assisting in killing nearly 30,000 Jews. https://www.thelocal.de/20110708/36173 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:33:00 +0200 36173 A museum at the former Nazi German death camp in Sobibor, eastern Poland, has been shut down until further notice due to underfunding as Polish authorities scramble to raise the money to re-open it. https://www.thelocal.de/20110603/35429 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:49:00 +0200 35429 Former Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk was set free by a Munich court on Thursday, despite receiving a five-year jail term for helping to murder at least 28,000 people at Sobibor death camp in Poland. https://www.thelocal.de/20110512/34979 Thu, 12 May 2011 14:57:00 +0200 34979 The trial of 91-year-old alleged Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk is due to end this week, marking a watershed moment in Germany's bid to deal with World War II crimes judicially. https://www.thelocal.de/20110510/34909 Tue, 10 May 2011 10:18:00 +0200 34909 The lawyer of alleged Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk called Wednesday for his German trial to be scrapped after new FBI documents emerged calling into question a vital piece of evidence. https://www.thelocal.de/20110413/34363 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:58:00 +0200 34363 German prosecutors Tuesday said John Demjanjuk should serve a six-year jail term for helping to murder 27,900 Jews during his alleged time as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II. https://www.thelocal.de/20110322/33893 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:47:00 +0100 33893 John Demjanjuk, a 90-year-old accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews during his alleged time as a Nazi death camp guard, threatened Tuesday to go on hunger strike as his trial neared an end. https://www.thelocal.de/20110222/33265 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:38:00 +0100 33265 The German government said Monday it believed there may be a way to bring to justice an SS hitman who has lived as a free man in Germany since escaping from a Dutch prison in 1952. https://www.thelocal.de/20100809/29041 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:42:00 +0200 29041 John Demjanjuk, a 90-year-old accused of helping murder of 27,900 Jews as a guard at a Nazi death camp, denied the charges Tuesday in the first statement since his trial began in November. https://www.thelocal.de/20100413/26523 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:34:00 +0200 26523 A Canadian-Jewish playwright is bringing his version of former Sobibor death camp guard John Demjanjuk’s story to the stage, even as a war crimes trial against the 89-year-old contiunes in Munich. https://www.thelocal.de/20100329/26191 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:56:00 +0200 26191 German police on Thursday raided the flat of an 88-year-old man suspected of having helped murder hundreds of thousands of Jews and others while a guard at the Nazi death camp Belzec. https://www.thelocal.de/20100121/24737 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:10:00 +0100 24737 One of the last survivors of the Nazi death camp Sobibor said Tuesday he still has nightmares about his experiences there, as he testified in the trial of alleged guard John Demjanjuk. https://www.thelocal.de/20100119/24681 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:00 +0100 24681 A kind-hearted farm boy is how villagers recall suspected Nazi-era war criminal John Demjanjuk in his native Ukraine where his trial has provoked outrage among those who knew him. https://www.thelocal.de/20091220/24059 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:30:00 +0100 24059 John Demjanjuk, already on trial for Nazi-era war crimes, is also under investigation for allegedly intentionally killing someone with his car in 1947, German prosecutors said Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20091214/23929 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:35:00 +0100 23929 In putting Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk on trial, Germany has laid itself open to accusations of double standards over pursuing perpetrators of the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.de/20091201/23651 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:38:00 +0100 23651