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 A mammoth case against a Rwandan man accused of masterminding massacres in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo from his home in Germany, will have to be reopened, Germany's highest penal court ruled Thursday, overturning his conviction. https://www.thelocal.de/20181220/german-court-told-to-retry-rwandan-convicted-of-war-crimes Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:55:51 +0100 german-court-told-to-retry-rwandan-convicted-of-war-crimes A German judge on Thursday suspended the trial of a former Nazi concentration camp guard after the 95-year-old defendant was hospitalized for serious heart and kidney problems. https://www.thelocal.de/20181213/german-court-suspends-trial-of-ex-ss-death-camp-guard Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:43:57 +0100 german-court-suspends-trial-of-ex-ss-death-camp-guard German prosecutors on Friday charged a 95-year-old man with more than 36,000 counts of accessory to murder over his alleged time as a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II. https://www.thelocal.de/20181123/berlin-man-95-charged-over-36000-deaths-in-nazi-camp Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:56:56 +0100 berlin-man-95-charged-over-36000-deaths-in-nazi-camp A Syrian arrested in Germany on suspicion of belonging to the Isis terror group and raping a woman as she attempted to flee Isis-held territory has been ordered freed for lack of evidence, prosecutors said Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170613/syrian-accused-of-raping-woman-while-fighting-for-isis-released Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:02:35 +0200 syrian-accused-of-raping-woman-while-fighting-for-isis-released A German court Monday put on trial for war crimes a suspected former Syrian rebel commander accused of having tortured civilians while fighting for a militia linked to the Free Syrian Army. https://www.thelocal.de/20170523/syrian-rebel-leader-faces-war-crimes-trial-in-germany Tue, 23 May 2017 10:51:27 +0200 syrian-rebel-leader-faces-war-crimes-trial-in-germany German authorities have identified eight suspects - four men and four women - who they allege were responsible for war crimes during the Nazi era. https://www.thelocal.de/20160809/investigators-identify-8-further-nazi-war-crimes-suspects Tue, 09 Aug 2016 19:37:20 +0200 investigators-identify-8-further-nazi-war-crimes-suspects A group of German politicians and public figures have filed a lawsuit against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing him of committing war crimes against his country's Kurdish minority. https://www.thelocal.de/20160627/german-mps-file-war-crimes-suit-against-erdogan Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:36:11 +0200 german-mps-file-war-crimes-suit-against-erdogan On Tuesday Germany will start its first war crimes trial over atrocities in Syria, as a mass refugee influx brings not only witnesses and victims but also suspects into the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20160501/german-justice-to-tackle-syrian-war-crimes Sun, 01 May 2016 12:00:20 +0200 german-justice-to-tackle-syrian-war-crimes German authorities on Wednesday arrested a Syrian national on war crimes charges, on suspicion of commanding a rebel militia in Aleppo that committed atrocities and plundered artefacts for sale. https://www.thelocal.de/20160406/syrian-arrested-in-germany-on-war-crimes-charges Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:34:03 +0200 syrian-arrested-in-germany-on-war-crimes-charges A German court on Monday sentenced two Rwandan rebel leaders to long jail terms for masterminding massacres in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo from their homes in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20150928/court-jails-rwanda-rebel-leaders-over-war-crimes Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:05:52 +0200 court-jails-rwanda-rebel-leaders-over-war-crimes The colonel who ordered an air strike on Kunduz, Afghanistan in 2009 killing 102 people, will not be taken to court after the father of two children lost in the attack had his claim rejected in court on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150619/colonel-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-afghan-air-strike Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:34:32 +0200 colonel-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-afghan-air-strike Former SS officer Oskar Gröning, dubbed the "accountant of Auschwitz," asked for "forgiveness" over his role in mass murder at the Nazi death camp, as his trial began on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150421/nazi-defenda Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:27:57 +0200 nazi-defenda Documents going on sale in London show how the Nazis tested V2 rockets, including firing them at their own cities. https://www.thelocal.de/20150313/nazis-bombed-own-cities-for-target-practise Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:10:29 +0100 nazis-bombed-own-cities-for-target-practise A German historian estimates in a new book that French, British and American soldiers raped 860,000 Germans at and after the end of the Second World War, including 190,000 sexual assaults by American soldiers. https://www.thelocal.de/20150305/book-world-war-ii-allied-soldiers-raped-nearly-1mil-germans Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:53:00 +0100 book-world-war-ii-allied-soldiers-raped-nearly-1mil-germans American soldier Andre Shepherd, who applied for asylum in Germany as a conscientious objector against the war in Iraq after going AWOL from his unit, saw a judgement by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) go against him on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150227/us-army-iraq-war-crimes-asylum-setback-for-iraq-deserter Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:11:32 +0100 us-army-iraq-war-crimes-asylum-setback-for-iraq-deserter German authorities said on Monday they had raided the homes of six men suspected of taking part in the Nazi massacre of 642 mainly women and children in a French village in 1944. https://www.thelocal.de/20111205/39315 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:47:00 +0100 39315 A Nazi war criminal convicted two years ago for ordering a massacre of civilians in an Italian village will likely never go to jail because of his poor mental health. https://www.thelocal.de/20110812/36911 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:06:00 +0200 36911 A court in Verona sentenced nine elderly Germans to life imprisonment on Wednesday evening for Nazi massacres of hundreds of people in the north of Italy in 1944, Italian media reported. https://www.thelocal.de/20110707/36133 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:08:00 +0200 36133 The Bundeswehr has launched an investigation after reports that children were invited to play war games at a mock encampment named for a village in Kosovo where the Nazis once committed war atrocities. https://www.thelocal.de/20110606/35483 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:28:00 +0200 35483 Germany’s Christoph Flügge has been appointed presiding judge in the forthcoming war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic. https://www.thelocal.de/20110528/35317 Sat, 28 May 2011 17:13:00 +0200 35317