Hungary prosecutors charge accused Nazi with war crimes
June 18, 2013
Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged Laszlo Csatary, a 98-year-old Hungarian man, with the unlawful execution and torture of people in connection with the Holocaust. Slovakian authorities began the investigation of Csatary in September after he was arrested on allegations of abusing and assistin....... [more] 
Germany authorities arrest alleged Nazi guard
May 7, 2013
German authorities on Monday arrested a 93-year-old man for allegedly serving as a guard at Auschwitz and assisting in the mass murder carried out at the death camp. Hans Lipschis, who was deported from the US in 1983 for lying about his Nazi affiliations, has acknowledged being assigned to an SS gu....... [more]
Germany court opens neo-Nazi terrorism trial
May 6, 2013
Trial began in Germany Monday for Beate Zschaepe, a neo-Nazi member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), for alleged complicity in the murder of eight Turks, a Greek and a German policewoman in Germany between 2000 and 2007, as well as two bombings and 15 bank robberies. Her two presumed acc....... [more]
Slovakia court commutes death sentence of accused Nazi to life imprisonment
March 29, 2013
A Slovak court announced Thursday that the death sentence of 98 year-old Laszlo Csatary has been commuted to a sentence of life imprisonment in order to adhere to modern Slovak law. A court in Czechoslovakia sentenced Csatary to death in absentia in 1948, but the country subsequently abolished the d....... [more]
France court commenced trial of Neo-Nazi group members
March 15, 2013
On March 15, 2010, the trial of 14 members of a French neo-Nazi group, Nomad 88, began before the criminal court of Evry in the Parisian suburbs. The group was founded out of a desire to "purge" the suburbs, which its members carried out in 2008 through a shooting spree in Essonne — an area hea....... [more]
Jean Marie Le Pen was sentenced for pro-Nazi remarks
February 8, 2013
On February 8, 2008, a French court sentenced Jean Marie Le Pen, the leader of France's right wing National Front party, to three months in jail for minimizing the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. The sentence included a 10,000 euro fine and was in response to Le Pen claiming that the....... [more]
US immigration court ordered deportation of former Nazi supporter
February 2, 2013
On February 2, 2011, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Detroit immigration court had ordered the removal of a Michigan resident accused of murdering Jewish people while serving as a member of Nazi-supported Ukrainian Auxiliary Police during World War II. John Kalymon, who participa....... [more]
Austria court convicts three neo-Nazis for glorifying Nazism
January 11, 2013
An Austrian court convicted three neo-Nazis on Thursday of glorifying Nazism over the Internet, sentencing them to as many as nine years in prison. Neo-Nazi leader Gottfried Kuessel was sentenced to nine years in prison for creating the Alpen-Donau website, which promotes Nazism. Kuessel spent time....... [more]
Israel lawmakers approved bill banning use of Nazi symbolism
January 9, 2013
On January 9, 2012, an Israeli government panel approved a bill making it illegal to use Nazi symbols, names, images and the word "Nazi." There were four bills in all that were brought forward and approved in committee, but were immediately attacked by free speech and human rights activists around t....... [more]
Germany prosecutors charge former Nazi for 1944 killing
November 26, 2012
German prosecutors on Monday charged 91-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS Siert Bruins with the murder of a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944. The Dortmund prosecutor accused Bruins of executing captured Dutch Nazi-opposition fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 outside the town....... [more]
Germany to increase Nazi victim compensation
November 15, 2012
The German Finance Ministry on Thursday gave final approval to amendments to the Luxembourg Agreement that will increase compensation to surviving victims of the Nazi regime. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble signed the amended agreement at a ceremony in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. The ame....... [more]
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