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Germany debates belated justice for Nazi guard at Auschwitz
The arrest in Germany this week of a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard on charges of complicity in mass murder reopened an emotional debate on whether a measure of justice can be too late in coming. Holocaust survivors and historians hailed the twilight bid to bring the last war criminals…
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp sees record number of visitors in 2012
The number of visitors to the World War II Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp soared to a record 1.43 million in 2012, the museum at the site in southern Poland said Friday. “This is a record in the 65-year history of this museum. We’ve received over a million visitors each year over…
Photographer of Auschwitz experiments dies aged 95
WARSAW — Wilhelm Brasse, who as a prisoner at Auschwitz was forced to photograph the experiments of Doctor Josef Mengele, died on Tuesday aged 95. Brasse’s work at the concentration camp also included taking photographs of his fellow inmates for identity cards, resulting in a collection of 39,000 images that…
Auschwitz march honours Holocaust dead
OSWIECIM, Poland — Thousands from across the globe marched Thursday between the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in honour of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust during World War II. The mournful wail of traditional Jewish ram’s horn — the “shofar”, symbolising freedom — marked the start of…
One in five young Germans ‘unaware of Auschwitz’
One in five young Germans has no idea that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp, a poll released Wednesday showed, two days ahead ofHolocaust memorial day. Although 90 percent of those asked did know it was a concentration camp, the poll for Thursday’s edition of Stern news magazine revealed that Auschwitz meant nothing to 21 percent…
Diaries of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele up for sale
NEW YORK — The diaries of feared Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the so-called “Angel of Death” who carried out gruesome medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz, will be auctioned in the United States. The diaries, written after World War II once Mengele had fled from the Allies to Latin…
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