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Former Nazi camp guard, 93, faces German court reckoning

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:13:19 +0200

The prosecution's closing arguments will be heard on Monday in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II.

Update: Former Nazi concentration camp guard, 93, 'sorry for what he did', German court hears

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:57:32 +0200

A former SS guard, 93, said he was sorry for his actions as he went on trial in Hamburg on Thursday for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

‘History isn’t black and white’: Guestbook sheds light on senior Nazi’s Zionist link

Thu, 02 May 2019 16:09:18 +0200

A recently uncovered signature in a guestbook has shed new light on a Nazi's visit to Jerusalem in 1933, and Israel's National Library is highlighting the find for Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Trial of former SS guard, now 94, starts in Münster

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 09:53:29 +0100

A former SS guard, aged 94, goes on trial Tuesday in Germany charged with complicity in mass murders at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, in a case bearing symbolic and moral weight.

96-year-old charged with complicity in murders at Nazi death camp

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:49:29 +0200

German prosecutors on Friday charged a 96-year-old former SS guard at a Nazi death camp with complicity in the murder of detainees, in one of the last criminal cases linked to the Holocaust.

Convicted Auschwitz guard dies before setting foot in prison

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:59:57 +0200

A 95-year-old former SS guard for the Auschwitz death camp died on Tuesday before he could serve his designated five-year prison sentence.

Verdict due in case of former SS Auschwitz guard

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:54:29 +0200

A German court is expected to issue a verdict on Friday in the case of a 94-year-old former SS guard at Auschwitz, in what is likely to be one of the last trials of its kind.

Ex-Auschwitz guard dies a week before going on trial

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:02:22 +0200

A 93-year-old former guard at Auschwitz has died one week before he was to stand trial in Germany, the court due to hear the case said Thursday.

‘Nazi Grandma’ escorted from SS trial after being attacked

Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:16:56 +0100

An 87-year-old grandmother convicted for Holocaust denial tried to attend the trial of a former SS guard in Auschwitz on Thursday, but was taken away by police after she came under attack.

Germany puts two SS men on trial over Auschwitz killings

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:44:05 +0100

Two former SS men will go on trial this month for their alleged complicity in the murder of thousands of people at Auschwitz, as Germany accelerates its bid to prosecute ageing Third Reich criminals.

Germany probes former SS men over French massacre

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:50:17 +0100

German authorities said on Friday they had carried out raids at the homes of elderly former SS soldiers accused of war crimes, including involvement in a 1944 civilian massacre in France.

Nazi tombstone stolen from Normandy cemetery

Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:33:31 +0200

The gravestone of a formidable Nazi SS tank commander has been stolen from a German cemetery in the small Normandy town of La Cambe, municipal sources said on Tuesday.

Auschwitz guard charged over 300,000 deaths

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:42:00 +0200

A 93-year old man from Lower Saxony will stand trial for 300,000 counts of accessory to murder at the Auschwitz death camp while a member of the Waffen-SS.

US arrests man, 89, over Nazi war crimes

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:01:00 +0200

An 89-year-old man has been arrested and denied bail in the United States for alleged war crimes as a teenage Nazi guard at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

Police arrest 'former Auschwitz SS guards'

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:51:00 +0100

Police have arrested three suspected former SS guards of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in a series of raids in homes across Germany, prosecutors said on Thursday.

SS officer, 92, faces life in prison for 'murder'

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:57:00 +0200

A 92-year-old former SS officer went on trial on Monday for the murder of a Dutch resistance fighter nearly 70 years ago.

Files reveal star actor Horst Tappert's Nazi past

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:01:00 +0200

The late German actor who starred in the wildly popular television crime show "Derrick" belonged to Hitler's notorious Waffen SS, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Friday.

Nazi castle turned into museum dedicated to Hitler's dreaded SS

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:09:00 +0200

A new museum devoted to Adolf Hitler's murderous SS has opened in a mysterious castle designed to be the spiritual home of the Nazi global empire after World War II. AFP's Richard Carter reports.

Former SS hit man given life sentence

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:51:00 +0100

An 88-year-old former SS hit man was given a life sentence Tuesday for shooting dead three civilians in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in 1944.

Former Nazi SS hit man goes on trial in Aachen

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:00 +0100

One of Germany’s last Nazi war crime trials began on Wednesday in Aachen against 88-year-old Heinrich Boere, a Dutch-born former SS hit man accused of killing three of his countrymen.