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German prosecutor, head of Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, Jens Rommel stands in the archives room of the institution on April 19, 2018 in Ludwigsburg, southwestern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS KIENZLE)
May 21, 2018, 10:07 am
Germany’s Nazi hunters in final straight of race against time
Team of investigators travels the world, urgently trying to track down and bring to justice the last remaining Holocaust war criminals
By Yannick Pasquet
Helmut Oberlander during his time serving as a an interpreter for the Nazis with Einsatzkommando 10a. (CIJA)
May 3, 2018, 3:04 am
​Canada defends fourth attempt to strip Nazi war crimes suspect of citizenship
Accused of hiding his past in the Einsatzkommando killing unit, Helmut Oberlander, 93, appeals decision in federal court
By AFP
In this photo taken on December 5, 2017, French Nazi hunters Serge Klarsfeld, (l) and his wife Beate look at the Wall of Names at the Shoah Memorial in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
December 7, 2017, 4:09 pm
Little-known story of famed Nazi hunters shown in Paris
Exhibition shows other sides of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, whose efforts brought down 'Butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie
By Thomas Adamson
Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial June 22, 1961 in Jerusalem. (Photo by GPO)
November 24, 2017, 11:03 pm
Argentina’s Jews had key role in Eichmann’s capture, Mossad agent says
Avner Avraham reveals local community gave Israeli spy agency cars and safe houses used in operation to abduct Nazi murderer
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A woman is attempting to protect a child with her own body just before they are executed by Nazi German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod, Ukraine in 1942. (Wikimedia commons)
September 29, 2017, 2:34 pm
German TV airs interviews with SS death squad soldiers
Israeli Nazi hunter who helped track down footage says he turned to national broadcaster after Berlin's slow response to his findings
By Toby Axelrod
A 1944 file photo of part of the Babi Yar ravine at the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine where the advancing Red Army unearthed the bodies of 14,000 civilians killed by fleeing Nazis. (AP)
September 28, 2017, 5:31 pm
Germany investigating 2 former SS death squad members
Kurt Gosdek, 94 and Herbert Wahler, 95, say they are innocent of crimes committed by unit that massacred Jews
By David Rising
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
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
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