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Hungary charges suspected ex-Nazi with war crimes

July 18, 2012 04:44:04 PM

Hungarian authorities on Wednesday took into custody a 97-year-old Hungarian man suspected of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. The man alleged to be Laszlo Csatary was arrested in Budapest after the Simon Wiesenthal Center...

July 17, 2012 09:19:03 AM

Hungarian authorities on Monday announced plans to investigate into whether a former Nazi resides in the country's capital amid demands by various rights groups to prosecute the war criminal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human...

June 29, 2012 06:15:39 AM

The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday rejected the request to restore the citizenship of John Demjanjuk , a retired Ohio autoworker convicted of being an accessory to over 28,000 murders as...

June 19, 2012 11:32:57 AM

The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (INR) , the body charged with investigating Nazi and communist-era crimes, on Tuesday began its investigation into crimes committed against Jewish women in a small northeastern Polish town during World...

April 20, 2012 03:55:28 PM

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human rights organization committed to finding and prosecuting Holocaust war criminals, called on the government of Hungary to prosecute former Nazi Laszlo Csatary in its annual report [text, PDF; press...

March 18, 2012 03:06:51 PM

John Demjanjuk , a retired Ohio autoworker convicted of being an accessory to over 28,000 murders as a guard at a Nazi extermination camp, died in a nursing home Saturday at the age of 91. Demjanjuk, who...

January 20, 2012 10:49:59 AM

The Ingolstadt Prosecutor's Office filed a motion on Thursday to jail Klaas Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands in 1947 of Nazi war crimes. He is one...

October 28, 2011 07:52:07 AM

Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (INR) , the body charged with investigating Nazi and communist-era crimes, on Thursday announced a new probe into Nazi crimes aimed at tracking down living Nazi perpetrators. The investigation, opened by the branch...

October 20, 2011 02:52:59 PM

Lawyers for convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk filed a request in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for a hearing to determine whether the FBI failed to turn...

October 5, 2011 11:08:04 AM

German prosecutors intend to reopen hundreds of investigations involving former Nazi death camp guards, according to Wednesday reports. This initiative results from the conviction of John Demjanjuk , a retired US autoworker who...

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