May 16, 2017
5:11 am

Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld with his wife and Nazi war crimes investigator Beate Klarsfeld. (CC BY, Klarsfeld Foundation, Wikipedia)

Serge Klarsfeld recognized with top award by Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial

Nazi hunter honored at conference marking 30th anniversary of trial of Klaus Barbie, head of the Lyon Gestapo

By JTA

January 27, 2017
5:20 am

Chief Nazi-hunter of the US-based Jewish rights group Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, gestures during a conference in Jerusalem on January 26, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Nazi hunter says hundreds could still be at large

Efraim Zuroff expects a spike in convictions in coming years despite most suspects being in their 90s

By AFP

January 11, 2017
11:29 am

SS captain Alois Brunner (screen capture: YouTube)

Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report

Eichmann’s ‘right-hand man,’ in charge of Drancy camp during WWII, was responsible for the death of an estimated 130,000 Jews

By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS

August 30, 2016
2:18 am

Julius Streicher, founder of Nazi propaganda paper Der Sturmer, striking a pose in Berlin, August 15, 1935. (Getty Images/JTA)

When a Jewish Holocaust survivor ‘pissed’ on Hitler’s henchman

Having captured Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, a trembling Werner Meritz told fellow US soldiers he was going to have revenge

By Andrew Tobin

May 21, 2016
2:35 am

94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning arrives for his trial in Detmold, Germany, February 11, 2016. (Bernd Thissen/Pool Photo via AP)

Prosecutors seek 6-year sentence for ex-Auschwitz guard

In closing arguments, Andreas Brendel tells court 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning ‘played a part in camp’s purpose of annihilation’

By AP

May 5, 2016
3:20 am

The post-WWII Nuremberg Trials in Germany, during which some of the Third Reich's top war criminals were tried and sentenced by the Allies. Among the Nazis seated in the docket is Hermann Goering (front left), head of Germany's air force and a leading figure in the Reich (Wikimedia Commons)

Why the Nazi hunters’ epic quest is coming to an unheralded end

As Germany closes the book on Shoah-related trials, author Andrew Nagorski probes a seven-decade saga in his new book, ‘The Nazi Hunters’

By Matt Lebovic

April 29, 2016
5:02 pm

94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning, center, leaves the building after the opening of his trial in Detmold, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. (Bernd Thissen/Pool Photo via AP)

Ex-SS Auschwitz guard tells court, ‘I am truly sorry’

Reinhold Hanning, 94, accused of complicity in 170,000 murders, is ‘ashamed’ of having done nothing to prevent crimes

By AFP

February 19, 2016
10:03 am

German Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld (L) receives her new Israeli passport and ID from Interior Minister Aryeh Deri during a ceremony at the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem, February 15, 2016. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld, 77, gets Israeli citizenship

Daughter of Wehrmacht soldiers played key role in bringing war criminals to justice, including Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

February 14, 2016
3:48 am

File: This photo, taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945, shows a group of children behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo)

Suspected Auschwitz guard dies in Croatia

Jakob Dencinger, 92, sought by German prosecutors, lost US citizenship when his Nazi past was discovered in 1989

By AFP

February 11, 2016
8:09 am

Ex-SS guard on trial in late push to punish Nazi crimes

40 Auschwitz survivors to testify in case of 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning, who faces 170,000 counts of accessory to murder

By David Rising

December 28, 2015
8:36 am

This file photo taken on February 13, 1964 shows German general prosecutor Fritz Bauer (C) giving a press conference on the death of so-called Euthanasie Professor, German psychiatrist and Nazi Werner Heyde. (AFP/DPA/ROLAND WITSCHEL)

German cinema rediscovers Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer

Jewish prosecutor and concentration camp survivor is brought to the big screen in stories of his two biggest battles

By Coralie Febvre

November 3, 2015
9:18 am

Polish born Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt, one of the joint plaintiffs during the Demjanjuk trial, waits in the court room in Munich, southern Germany, prior to the trail against John Demjanjuk, January 20, 2010. (Photo by Christof Stache/Pool Photo via AP, file)

Thomas Blatt, survivor of escape from Sobibor, dies at 88

Prominent witness at the trial of notorious camp guard John Demjanjuk passes away in California

By Vanessa Gera

October 26, 2015
8:45 pm

Serge Klarsfeld, 80 (left), French historian, lawyer and Holocaust survivor, and his 76-year-old German-born wife Beate Klarsfeld (right), along with the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, pose after being named UN special envoys and honorary ambassadors on genocide prevention at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, October 26, 2015. (AP/Francois Mori)

Nazi hunters to work with UNESCO to prevent genocide

French Holocaust survivor and his wife honored as ambassadors against mass atrocity crimes in Mideast, Africa

By Thomas Adamson and ALEX TURNBULL

October 7, 2015
3:00 am

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas at the Justice Ministry in Berlin, Germany, October 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Germany still untangling Nazis’ legal legacy

‘Too many who bore guilt covered for each other,’ Justice Minister Heiko Maas says of failure to prosecute criminals at war’s end

By Frank Jordans

July 21, 2015
8:10 pm

Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff in 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Nazi hunter reports Dane to police over war crimes

Helmuth Leif Rasmussen, 90, accused of serving as a guard at a Belarus concentration camp

By AFP

Topic: Nazi hunters

Serge Klarsfeld recognized with top award by Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial

Nazi hunter honored at conference marking 30th anniversary of trial of Klaus Barbie, head of the Lyon Gestapo

Nazi hunter says hundreds could still be at large

Efraim Zuroff expects a spike in convictions in coming years despite most suspects being in their 90s

Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report

Eichmann’s ‘right-hand man,’ in charge of Drancy camp during WWII, was responsible for the death of an estimated 130,000 Jews

When a Jewish Holocaust survivor ‘pissed’ on Hitler’s henchman

Having captured Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, a trembling Werner Meritz told fellow US soldiers he was going to have revenge

Prosecutors seek 6-year sentence for ex-Auschwitz guard

In closing arguments, Andreas Brendel tells court 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning ‘played a part in camp’s purpose of annihilation’

Why the Nazi hunters’ epic quest is coming to an unheralded end

As Germany closes the book on Shoah-related trials, author Andrew Nagorski probes a seven-decade saga in his new book, ‘The Nazi Hunters’

Ex-SS Auschwitz guard tells court, ‘I am truly sorry’

Reinhold Hanning, 94, accused of complicity in 170,000 murders, is ‘ashamed’ of having done nothing to prevent crimes

Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld, 77, gets Israeli citizenship

Daughter of Wehrmacht soldiers played key role in bringing war criminals to justice, including Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie

Suspected Auschwitz guard dies in Croatia

Jakob Dencinger, 92, sought by German prosecutors, lost US citizenship when his Nazi past was discovered in 1989

Ex-SS guard on trial in late push to punish Nazi crimes

40 Auschwitz survivors to testify in case of 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning, who faces 170,000 counts of accessory to murder

German cinema rediscovers Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer

Jewish prosecutor and concentration camp survivor is brought to the big screen in stories of his two biggest battles

Thomas Blatt, survivor of escape from Sobibor, dies at 88

Prominent witness at the trial of notorious camp guard John Demjanjuk passes away in California

Nazi hunters to work with UNESCO to prevent genocide

French Holocaust survivor and his wife honored as ambassadors against mass atrocity crimes in Mideast, Africa

Germany still untangling Nazis’ legal legacy

‘Too many who bore guilt covered for each other,’ Justice Minister Heiko Maas says of failure to prosecute criminals at war’s end

Nazi hunter reports Dane to police over war crimes

Helmuth Leif Rasmussen, 90, accused of serving as a guard at a Belarus concentration camp

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