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US Worries Demjanjuk Grave May Spawn Neo-Nazi Shrine

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:28:23 CDT

John Demjanjuk's family wants the convicted Nazi war criminal buried in Ohio, where he settled after the war, but Jewish advocates worry that his grave could become a neo-Nazi shrine. "For neo-Nazis, I think it's entirely possible that a Demjanjuk grave becomes a monument to the alleged evils of the...

Germany Reopens Hundreds of Nazi Investigations

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:14:32 CDT

Now that John Demjanjuk has been convicted of war crimes, Germany has reopened investigations into hundreds of other former Nazi death camp guards, looking for ones who might share his profile. Demjanjuk's conviction sets a precedent that could allow others to be charged, prosecutors say, although they are waiting until...

Demjanjuk Convicted for Role in Nazi Death Camp

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 12 May 2011 07:20:51 CDT

John Demjanjuk, the retired Ohio autoworker charged with 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp, was convicted and sentenced today to five years in prison. Demjanjuk, a native of Ukraine, was accused of being a guard at Nazi-occupied Poland's Sobibor camp where thousands...

FBI: Demjanjuk's Nazi ID Likely a Soviet Fake

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:44:47 CDT

In the midst of closing arguments in John Demjanjuk's Nazi war crimes trial in Munich, a shocking revelation: AP yesterday reported on the existence of a newly declassified FBI report that claims Demjanjuk's Nazi ID card was "quite likely fabricated" by the Soviet Union. Throughout three decades of hearings and...

Dutch Issue Warrant for Nazi Who Fled Prison in 1952

Nick McMaster — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:55:05 CST

The Netherlands has issued a European arrest warrant for Klaas Carel Faber, a convicted Nazi war criminal who escaped from prison nearly 60 years ago, the Telegraph reports. Faber, 88, was part of an SS unit that committed summary executions of Dutch civilians for being either Jewish or "anti-German"—that...

Third Most-Wanted Nazi Dies a Free Man

Rob Quinn — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:54:40 CST

German prosecutors have evidence linking Samuel Kunz to the murder of 430,000 Jews at a death camp in Poland. What they don't have anymore is a living suspect. Kunz has died peacefully at his home in Germany, where he was due to stand trial next year, the Independent reports....

Ex-Nazi: 'I Was Just Following Orders'

Rob Quinn — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:09:31 CST

A former Nazi hitman on trial in Germany confessed to killing three Dutch civilians but offered prosecutors a familiar excuse. "As a simple soldier, I learned to carry out orders," Heinrich Boere told the court. "And I knew that if I didn't carry out my orders I would be breaking...

Stretcher-Bound Demjanjuk Begins Trial

Harry Kimball — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:38:34 CST

Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk started his trial for complicity in 27,900 Holocaust murders in Munich today first in a wheelchair, and then on a stretcher. The Red Army POW/Ohio autoworker even forced a halt to proceedings when he flailed and gasped for breath in the courtroom. “It’s a...