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Nazi hunters
Nazi doctor Josef Mengele (Wikimedia Commons)
September 5, 2017, 11:02 am
Honeytraps and birthday calls: Secret file reveals Mossad efforts to net Mengele
Documents detail break-ins, wiretaps, and one close encounter in agency's failed attempts to catch Auschwitz 'Angel of Death'
By Sue Surkes
Former Nazi SS officer Oskar Groening listens to the verdict of his trial on July 15, 2015 at court in Lueneburg, northern Germany. (AFP / POOL/ AXEL HEIMKEN)
August 2, 2017, 4:12 pm
96-year-old ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ ruled fit to serve sentence
Oskar Groening was found guilty of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people, sentenced to four years in prison
By AFP
Helmut Oberlander during his time serving as a an interpreter for the Nazis with Einsatzkommando 10a. (CIJA)
July 27, 2017, 9:14 am
Canada strips citizenship of ex-Nazi for fourth time
Accused of hiding his past in the Einsatzkommando killing unit, Helmut Oberlander, 93, vows to appeal decision again
By JTA
French lawyer and activist Serge Klarsfeld poses in his office in Paris on July 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas Samson)
July 17, 2017, 1:12 am
Nazi-hunter accuses France of ‘complicity’ in genocide
In interview on eve of 75th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv deportations, Serge Klarsfeld says it is 'historical accuracy'
By JTA
Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld with his wife and Nazi war crimes investigator Beate Klarsfeld. (CC BY, Klarsfeld Foundation, Wikipedia)
May 16, 2017, 5:11 am
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
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)
January 27, 2017, 5:20 am
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
SS captain Alois Brunner (screen capture: YouTube)
January 11, 2017, 11:29 am
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
Julius Streicher, founder of Nazi propaganda paper Der Sturmer, striking a pose in Berlin, August 15, 1935. (Getty Images/JTA)
August 30, 2016, 2:18 am
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
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)
May 21, 2016, 2:35 am
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
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)
May 5, 2016, 3:20 am
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
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)
April 29, 2016, 5:02 pm
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
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)
February 19, 2016, 10:03 am
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 TOI staff
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)
February 14, 2016, 3:48 am
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
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)
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
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)
December 28, 2015, 8:36 am
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
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