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Germany

Nearly 70 Years Later, a New Round of Auschwitz Prosecutions
By Chris Cottrell, The New York Times
10 April 2013

BERLIN — They worked as guards at the Holocaust’s most notorious death camp, and nearly seven decades later they may finally be brought to account before a court of law.
Germany's Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes has prepared a list of 50 former guards who worked at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and are still alive, said Kurt Schrimm, the head of the office.
Staff members searched old court records and Holocaust-related documents looking for names, and even traveled to Poland last year to try to augment their lists. One checked the names of the Auschwitz guards against databases to determine which were still alive. (read more)


Updates

18 July 2012 "Germany at risk of Neo-Nazi copycat killings" By The Telegraph

02 July 2012 "German spy chief quits in Neo-Nazi files scandal" By Reuters

03 June 2012 "German court bands male circumcision, sparks outrage among Jews, Muslims" By MSNBC

4 November 2011 "Statesville native, Army major visits Nazi concentration camp," by Bethany Fuller, Statesville

5 October 2011 "Germans Weigh More Charges for Nazi Guards," by Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times

4 September 2011 "Sandor Kepiro dies at 97; Acquitted of Holocaust-era crimes," by The Associated Press

18 January 2011 "Germany opens first Rwanda Genocide trial," by Selah Hennessy, Voice of America

28 July 2010 "Former Nazi guard, 88, charged in mass murder of Jews," by Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times

7 July 2010 "Women's role in Holocaust may exceed old notions," by Isabel Kershner, The New York Times

20 June 2010 "Op-Ed: Learning about the Holocaust," by Linda Livni, The New York Times

14 June 2010 "Can a Holocaust survivor ever forgive the Germans?" by Anita Epstein

9 November 2009 "An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers?," by Patricia Cohen, The New York Times

17 September 2009 "Spain indicts alleged 3 ex-Nazis," by Daniel Woolis, The Associated Press

13 September 2009 "Dozens injured in Hamburg clashes," by Al Jazeera

9 September 2009 "This rewriting of history is spreading Europe's poison," by Seumas Milne, The Guardian

9 September 2009 "The Holocaust's bureaucracy of genocide," by The Guardian

28 August 2009 "Auschwitz blueprints given to Netanyahu in Germany" by The Associated Press

24 August 2009 "Remembering the Nazi-Soviet Pact After Seventy Years," by Robert Gellately, The Huffington Post

14 July 2009 "Germany: 27,900 counts in Nazi death camp case" by Victor Homola

6 June 2009 "At a Holocaust Site, Obama Calls Denial 'Hateful'," by Jeff Zeleny and Nicholas Kulsh, The New York Times

4 June 2009 "Extent of Nazi camps far greater than realized" by Monica Hesse, The Washington Post

13 May 2009 "Germany jails suspected Nazi guard from US" by Shannon Smiley, The Washington Post

13 May 2009 "Accused Nazi Arrives in Munich" by Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times

15 April 2009 "'Nazi Guard' Deportation Blocked" by BBC News

30 March 2009 "Germany Bans 'Nazi Youth Group'" by BBC News

5 March 2009 "Germany: Music to Hate By" by  Reuters

3 November 2008 "Holocaust Survivors Seek Congress’s Help in Court," by James Barron, The New York Times

28 October 2008 "Refuse Heap Is Archive for Night of Hatred," by Rachel Nolan, The New York Times

18 September 2008 "Poll Finds Rising Antipathy Toward Jews and Muslims in Europe," by Reuters

15 September 2008 "Germany holds rare war crimes trial over 1944 Nazi massacre," by Harry de Quetteville, Telegraph Media Group

26 August 2008 "Nazi Labor Documented," by Agence France-Presse

10 July 2008 "U.N. Employee Accused of Role in Rwanda," by The Associated Press

27 May 2008 "Berlin remembers persecuted gays," by BBC News

8 May 2008 "2 Groups Banned for Neo-Nazism," by Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times

19 March 2008 "Merkel Says Holocaust Fills Germans 'With Shame'," by Isabel Kershner, The New York Times

27 February 2008 "No Laughs, No Thrills, and Villains All Too Real," by Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times

16 February 2005 "At Berlin Film Festival, From the Grim Last Century to the Grim Present One," by Alan Riding, The New York Times



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