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A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
March 26, 2025, 10:37 am
Argentina to declassify documents about Nazi ‘ratline’ escape routes after WWII
Following a promise by president Javier Milei last month, documents including banking and financial transactions will be publicly released
By Zev Stub
Logan Lerman and Jerrika Hinton in the second season of Amazon's 'Hunters,' by executive producer Jordan Peele. (Courtesy of Prime Video via JTA)
January 14, 2023, 3:49 am
Hitler is alive, in hiding, in final season of ‘Hunters,’ where Jews kill Nazis
Amazon series, by executive producer Jordan Peele, tells bloody, embellished tale of Jewish-led team of multiracial Nazi hunters in 1970s trying to stop rise of ‘Fourth Reich’
By Andrew Lapin
Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy and counselor for War Crimes Accountability at the US Department of Justice, testifies about the war in Ukraine during a Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 28, 2022. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
September 29, 2022, 1:06 pm
US laws hamper efforts to prosecute war criminals, warns top Nazi hunter
Eli Rosenbaum tells Senate Judiciary Committee that Russian war criminals should not be able to find safe refuge in America, as many Nazi offenders did
By AFP
'The Hidden Nazi,' by Dean Reuter. (courtesy)
January 15, 2022, 3:11 am
How Nazi Germany’s ‘most diabolical’ SS officer evaded postwar justice
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
By Matt Lebovic
Cast of Netflix's 'Jaguar' limited series (Manuel Fernandez-Valdes/Netflix)
October 8, 2021, 8:29 pm
Netflix’s new series on Spanish Nazi hunters: Separating fact from fiction
Spanish-language production ‘Jaguar’ provides entertaining action and emotion, at times adhering closely to history — and at others relying on a large dose of dramatic license
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Former AIPAC executive director Neal Sher speaks on a panel in October 2011. (Screen capture/YouTube)
October 8, 2021, 2:14 am
Neal Sher, who helped deport dozens of Nazis from US, dies at 74
Indefatigable Nazi-hunter transformed Justice Department’s system from reliant on tips to systematically checking German files against US immigration records; later headed AIPAC
By Ron Kampeas
Senior Public Prosecutor Thomas Will, head of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, stands among the files used for the work of the Central Office at the branch office of the Federal Archives in Ludwigsburg. (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
August 5, 2021, 9:21 pm
Germany seeks to prosecute over a dozen more Nazi war criminals
The trials of a 96-year-old woman and a 100-year-old man are set to begin this fall; nine other investigations are ongoing, along with six more preliminary probes
By Toby Axelrod
Undated illustrative image of Waffen-SS 'Wiking' division in Russia. (CC BY-SA Bild National Archives, Wikimedia Commons)
June 5, 2021, 11:26 am
New Zealand still not opening files on ‘resettled’ alleged former Nazi emigres
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff supplied a list of 50 suspected war criminals decades ago, but successive governments keep classified the immigration documents that could implicate them
By Lance Morcan
French nazi hunters Serge and his wife Beate Klarsfeld attend a ceremony to inaugurate the renovated Wall of Names, at the Shoah memorial in Paris, January 27, 2020. (Michel Euler/AP)
April 21, 2021, 10:07 am
Oscar-nominated filmmakers to make documentary on Nazi-hunting French couple
Romanian Alexander Nanau and UK’s Mike Lerner to team up on film about Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, who brought several prominent Nazis, among them Klaus Barbie, to justice
By Agencies
Journalist Mathew Kalman, left, interviews Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff for the 'Behind the Headlines' online video series, August 19, 2020. (Screenshot)
August 21, 2020, 4:46 pm
WATCH: Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff on pursuing Holocaust justice in Lithuania
In an online ToI interview, Zuroff talks about joining an acclaimed Lithuanian author to unearth and share a part of history many locals would prefer remain buried
By ToI Staff
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff in his Jerusalem office, January 2018. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 18, 2020, 4:32 pm
Move over Pacino: Join Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff to hear true tales of justice
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By ToI Staff
Al Pacino, left, and Logan Lerman are Jews out for revenge in Amazon Studios' 'Hunters.' (Christopher Saunders via JTA)
August 5, 2020, 7:53 am
Amazon renews ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino’s Nazi-hunting drama, for second season
Show has drawn criticism in the past from some Jewish groups for its premise and for its portrayal of the Holocaust
By Marcy Oster
Al Pacino, left, and Logan Lerman, right, are Jews out for revenge in Amazon Studios' 'Hunters.' (Christopher Saunders via JTA)
March 14, 2020, 4:50 am
Drop ‘Hunters,’ head of Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust foundation urges Amazon
Scholar Stephen Smith says TV series blurs line between victims and perpetrators because survivors ‘sought justice, not revenge’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A still from 'Hunters,' a new series by Amazon. (Courtesy Amazon Studios)
From the WebMarch 6, 2020, 2:47 pm
‘Hunters’ plays unacceptable games with the truth
There is absolutely no need to concoct sadistic fantasy beyond what we know of the Nazis’ gruesome acts of torture; the truth of the Holocaust is hard enough to assimilate
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
John Turturro in a scene from 'The Plot Against America.' (Screen capture: YouTube/HBO)
February 28, 2020, 3:01 am
Fictional Nazi thrillers bring real-life drama to cautionary tales
Shows like Hunters, Plot Against America, Man in High Castle, Jojo Rabbit, take license with history, draw some protests, but makers say medium can educate against rise in hate
By Lynn Elber
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