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Jurgen Stroop watches his troops raze the Warsaw Ghetto. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
August 20, 2026, 12:29 am
Once censored, a Nazi commander’s death-row confession is now out in English
‘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
By Shira Li Bartov
Historian Johannes Spohr's grandfather, Rudolf Spohr, as an ordnance officer of the German Army High Command shortly before his trip to Crimea, August 1942. (Courtesy/ family collection)
April 15, 2026, 3:44 am
My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes
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
By Robert Philpot
Argentine Patricia Kadgien (C), daughter of SS financial guru Friedrich Kadgien, one of several high-ranking Nazis to escape to Argentina after the war, attends a hearing after being arrested in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province on September 4, 2025. (AFP)
October 12, 2025, 4:43 pm
How a Dutch retiree helped uncover Nazi-stolen art in Argentina
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
By Leila Miller
Irmgard Furchner appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)
April 8, 2025, 5:47 am
Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict Irmgard Furchner dies at 99
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
By AFP and ToI Staff
This January 27, 2012, file photo taken on International Holocaust Remembrance Day shows the words 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) marking the entrance to the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration, in Oranienburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
June 30, 2024, 12:18 pm
German court rules ex-concentration camp guard, 99, unfit to stand trial
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
By ToI Staff
A photo of the Sylt concentration camp on the island of Alderney after the Nazi surrender, May 1945. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum/ via Antiquity Publications)
May 5, 2024, 12:13 pm
UK to probe possible cover-up of Nazi camps on English Channel island
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
By ToI Staff
Identity paper of John Demjanjuk, the wartime Nazi camp guard. (Justice Ministry)
June 11, 2023, 4:35 pm
US presents Israel with original documents from trial of John Demjanjuk
Papers, which include Nazi wartime camp guard’s SS membership card, were used in proceedings against him in Israel, the US, and Germany
By ToI Staff
Former Nazi concentration camp guard Josef Schuetz hides his face with a folder as he arrives on June 28, 2022 at a gym used as a makeshift courtroom in Brandenburg an der Havel, eastern Germany, where the verdict was delivered.(Adam BERRY / AFP)
April 27, 2023, 3:58 am
102-year-old convicted former Nazi camp guard dies while awaiting appeal
Josef Schuetz denied working at Sachsenhausen but was found by a German court to have served there as a member of the SS
By Agencies
Benjamin Ferencz, Romanian-born American lawyer and chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg war crimes trials, speaks during an opening ceremony for the exhibition commemorating the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, November 21, 2010. (Armin Weigel/Pool Photo via AP, File)
April 9, 2023, 4:29 am
Ben Ferencz, last living prosecutor of Nazis in Nuremberg trials, dies aged 103
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
By Mike Schneider
Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.
December 28, 2022, 2:18 pm
Former Nazi camp secretary, 97, appeals her conviction
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
By AFP
Portrait of Albert Speer Jr., oldest son of Albert Speer, Hitler's former architect and armament minister during WWII, in his office in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, May 11, 1987. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf)
December 13, 2022, 9:07 pm
How the son of ‘Hitler’s architect’ helped bring the World Cup to Qatar
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
By Robert Philpot
Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, at his home in Berlin on December 4, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
March 14, 2022, 8:22 pm
Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, key witness in trials of Nazis, dies at 101
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’
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
A still from the new Netflix animated documentary 'Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis.' (Courtesy of Netflix)
December 11, 2021, 9:02 am
How European Jewish refugees wined and dined Nazi prisoners for US Army intelligence
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
By Rich Tenorio
Jack Reimer enters Federal District Court in Manhattan on August 17, 1998. (Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
November 6, 2021, 2:46 pm
3 House Democrats ask why 9 former Nazis weren’t deported, died naturally in US
Despite trials and convictions for taking part in the Holocaust, years of red tape and bureaucracy delayed justice until it was too late. Now, politicians ask for accountability
By Stewart Ain
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