Topic: SS

May 23, 2014
1:00 am

In this May 22, 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc, photographed in Lauderdale, Minn. prior to a visit to Minnesota from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in early June of 1990. (photo credit: AP/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff)

Germany can prosecute ex-SS man living in America, court rules

Berlin says Michael Karkoc held a ‘German office’ even though he is not German and his alleged crimes were not committed on German soil

By AP

March 18, 2014
12:59 am

Adolf Hitler (right) from Israel Nazi hunter Tovia Fridman's archive (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

The Jews who fought for Hitler: ‘We had a common enemy’

From the web Finland’s Jews battled alongside Germans against the USSR in WWII, even winning decorations, the Telegraph reports

February 12, 2014
2:36 pm

The grave of Cyriel Verschaeve (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/ public domain)

EU president removes Nazi sympathizer’s poem from site

After Belgian Jews protest, Herman Van Rompuy claims Cyriel Verschaeve’s ‘The Seagull’ was mother-in-law’s favorite work

By Lazar Berman

February 5, 2014
11:18 pm

Railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Croatia probes former US citizen over WWII war crimes

Jacob Dencinger, 90, a German believed to have been an SS guard at Auschwitz, lived for decades in the US after the war

By JTA

January 9, 2014
4:29 am

German President Joachim Gauck, Robert Hebras, one of two survivors still alive and French President Francois Hollande, walk through the ghost city of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, the site of a massacre during WWII (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool,File)

Former SS man charged for France massacre

88-year-old said to have taken part in World War II’s largest civilian killing in the country

By David Rising

January 8, 2014
4:14 pm

Siert Bruins , 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS, sits in the courtroom in Hagen, Germany, September 2, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Frank Augstein, File

Trial against former SS operative shelved

Court says evidence is too little, too late to convict 92-year-old Siert Bruins

By AP and Times of Israel staff

August 23, 2013
10:51 pm

Ronald Lauder. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Call for Ukrainian priests to stop glorifying Nazis

World Jewish Congress asks country’s Orthodox Church to halt tributes to Hitler’s army and its local collaborators

By JTA

June 24, 2013
4:45 am

In this May 22, 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc, photographed in Lauderdale, Minn. prior to a visit to Minnesota from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in early June of 1990. (photo credit: AP/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff)

Survivors recall 1944 village raid by Nazi unit led by Michael Karkoc

Senior figure in Ukrainian Self Defense Legion found to be living in the US since 1949, led unit that killed 44 Polish villagers

By Monica Scislowska

May 6, 2013
10:57 pm

The Auschwitz concentration camp (photo credit: Shutterstock)

Alleged Auschwitz death camp guard arrested

German man, deported from US for lying about Nazi past, held over ‘compelling evidence’ he was involved in war crimes

By David Rising

December 27, 2012
1:41 am

Anton Geiser, who has lived in the US for more than 50 years, didn't deny serving as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. (Photo credit: CC BY/ hsivonen via Flickr.com)

Former Nazi guard dies amid deportation battle

Anton Geiser served in SS as concentration camp guard before moving to US

December 26, 2012
1:52 pm

The main Holocaust memorial in Berlin features an above-ground, abstract monument resembling tombstones. (Plano Light/Creative Commons via JTA)

Come for the Holocaust museums, stay for the dance clubs and art

With its tragic history and growing Jewish population, Berlin offers a compelling, sometimes jarring mix of tourist activities

By Toby Axelrod