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Hungarian Nazi suspect cleared of 1941 deportation
BUDAPEST — Hungarian prosecutors cleared Tuesday a 97-year-old of organising the 1941 deportation of 300 Jews but were still probing more serious allegations about his later World War II activities. Accusations that Laszlo Csatary sent the 300 to their deaths at the Kamyanets-Podilsky camp in Ukraine were “groundless” since he…
Hungarian Nazi’s original trial documents found
Original documents from the 1948 Nazi war crimes trial in absentia of Laszlo Csatary, now under house arrest in Hungary, have been found in Slovakia, a historian there was quoted as saying on Friday. “The National Memory Institute (UPN) archives in Bratislava possess a legal dossier from the death sentence…
Most wanted Nazi war criminal’s hearing delayed
A hearing due Thursday of 97-year-old Laszlo Csatary, who tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s dwindling wanted-list of suspected Nazi war criminals, was deferred to next week, lawyers said. Csatary’s lawyer and prosecutors did not specify a date nor explain the delay. “The hearing will take place in a week,” his…
Hungary says probing Nazi war criminal ‘raises problems’
BUDAPEST — Pressure was mounting on Hungary Monday over an aged Nazi war criminal found living there, as prosecutors said investigating him was difficult as his crimes happened so long ago and in another country. Several dozen young demonstrators gathered outside Laszlo Csatary’s apartment in an upmarket district of Budapest…
Hungary shown ‘new evidence on No 1 Nazi suspect’
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre has confirmed that Laszlo Csatary, accused of complicity in the killings of 15,700 Jews, had been tracked down to the Hungarian capital. “I confirm that Laszlo Csatary has been identified and found in Budapest,” the centre’s director Efraim Zuroff told AFP. Ten months ago an…
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