The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/nazi-war-criminals/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:43:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Nazi war criminals | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/nazi-war-criminals/ 32 32 Switzerland releases 200-page intelligence dossier on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele https://www.timesofisrael.com/switzerland-releases-200-page-intelligence-dossier-on-nazi-angel-of-death-mengele/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:29:49 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3895094 Files include material indicating the convicted German war criminal may have entered the alpine nation while on the run, which historians have long sought to substantiate

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]]> Once censored, a Nazi commander’s death-row confession is now out in English https://www.timesofisrael.com/once-censored-a-nazi-commanders-death-row-confession-is-now-out-in-english/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:29:25 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3882312 'Conversations with an Executioner' gives firsthand account of the rise of Jurgen Stroop, a senior Nazi who led killings of over 50,000 Jews and destruction of Warsaw Ghetto

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]]> My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes https://www.timesofisrael.com/my-grandfather-the-nazi-a-german-historian-helps-families-unravel-forebears-crimes/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:44:30 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3800907 After discovering his own patriarch's role in the Holocaust, scholar Johannes Spohr offers workshops that confront uncomfortably specific truths amid a wider culture of remembrance

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]]> How a Dutch retiree helped uncover Nazi-stolen art in Argentina https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-dutch-retiree-helped-uncover-nazi-stolen-art-in-argentina/ Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:43:21 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3662141 Working from his father's wartime diaries, Paul Post tracked down painting looted during the Holocaust to Argentina, in possession of daughter of high-ranking Nazi official

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]]> Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict Irmgard Furchner dies at 99 https://www.timesofisrael.com/germanys-likely-last-holocaust-convict-irmgard-furchner-dies-at-99/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:47:08 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3520474&preview=true&preview_id=3520474 The former Nazi secretary was handed a two-year suspended sentence in 2022 for complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp in Poland

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]]> German court rules ex-concentration camp guard, 99, unfit to stand trial https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-court-rules-99-year-old-former-concentration-camp-guard-unfit-to-stand-trial/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:18:04 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3321748 Ex-SS officer Gregor Formanek served time in Soviet prison for crimes against humanity; was indicted in Germany last year; plaintiffs expected to appeal decision

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]]> UK to probe possible cover-up of Nazi camps on English Channel island https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-to-probe-possible-cover-up-of-nazi-camps-on-english-channel-island/ Sun, 05 May 2024 09:13:41 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3282501 Victims from 20 countries were sent to Alderney, including hundreds of French Jews; Britain released Nazi culprits in 1945 without prosecution, despite Allied war crime agreement

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]]> US presents Israel with original documents from trial of John Demjanjuk https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-presents-israel-with-original-documents-from-trial-of-john-demjanjuk/ Sun, 11 Jun 2023 13:35:07 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3031434 Papers, which include Nazi wartime camp guard's SS membership card, were used in proceedings against him in Israel, the US, and Germany

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]]> 102-year-old convicted former Nazi camp guard dies while awaiting appeal https://www.timesofisrael.com/102-year-old-convicted-former-nazi-camp-guard-dies-while-awaiting-appeal/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:58:50 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3003892 Josef Schuetz denied working at Sachsenhausen but was found by a German court to have served there as a member of the SS

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]]> Ben Ferencz, last living prosecutor of Nazis in Nuremberg trials, dies aged 103 https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-ferencz-last-living-prosecutor-in-nuremberg-trial-of-nazis-dies-aged-103/ Sun, 09 Apr 2023 01:29:25 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2992457 One of the 1st witnesses to document the atrocities of the Holocaust, US war crimes investigator led to the conviction of 22 Nazi commanders in 1947, helped return looted property

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]]> Former Nazi camp secretary, 97, appeals her conviction https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-nazi-camp-secretary-97-appeals-her-conviction/ Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:18:15 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2910747 Irmgard Furchner contests 2-year suspended sentence for complicity in the 'cruel and malicious murder' of more than 10,000 prisoners at Stutthof camp in occupied Poland

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]]> How the son of ‘Hitler’s architect’ helped bring the World Cup to Qatar https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-the-son-of-hitlers-architect-helped-bring-the-world-cup-to-qatar/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:07:27 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2897304 Albert Speer Jr. tried to get out from under his father’s legacy, but despite his ostensibly humanitarian and eco-friendly style, he often worked for authoritarian regimes

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]]> Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, key witness in trials of Nazis, dies at 101 https://www.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-survivor-leon-schwarzbaum-key-witness-in-trials-of-nazis-dies-at-101/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:22:36 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2724031 The sole survivor of his family, he testified against several alleged war criminals in recent years; death described as 'a great loss to the collective memory'

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]]> How Nazi Germany’s ‘most diabolical’ SS officer evaded postwar justice https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-nazi-germanys-most-diabolical-ss-officer-evaded-postwar-justice/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 01:11:38 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2679338 In 'The Hidden Nazi,' author Dean Reuter asks whether SS general Hans Kammler, who oversaw the construction of death camps, exchanged V-2 rocket secrets for freedom

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]]> How European Jewish refugees wined and dined Nazi prisoners for US Army intelligence https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-european-jewish-refugees-wined-and-dined-nazi-prisoners-for-us-army-intelligence/ Sat, 11 Dec 2021 07:02:05 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2659035 New short animated Netflix doc 'Camp Confidential' by Israeli directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan unearths a controversial top-secret program that helped America win the Cold War

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