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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…
German police arrest man suspected of being Auschwitz death camp guard
Germany is investigating an alleged former Auschwitz death camp guard, prosecutors said Wednesday, who according to media reports is listed among the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s most-wanted Nazis. Prosecutors in the southwestern city of Stuttgart confirmed to AFP they had “started investigating an alleged concentration camp guard in autumn of 2012″…
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…
Nazi war criminal revelation stokes Hungary fears
BUDAPEST — News that the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal is living freely in Hungary is the latest incident to spark fears that the country is veering alarmingly to the right. In particular, there are concerns that anti-Semitism, largely dormant under Hungary’s communist era that ended two decades…
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…
Jewish human rights group tells Hollywood to drop Mel Gibson ‘Maccabee’ film
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on Hollywood to drop plans for a Mel Gibson film about the legendary Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee after the actor and film-maker was accused of making antisemitic remarks by screenwriter Joe Eszterhas. Deadline reports that the LA-based international Jewish human rights organisation said it…
Nazi hunters launch new drive to prosecute war criminals
BERLIN — The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center launched a new drive in Germany Wednesday to catch the last perpetrators of the Holocaust still at large based on a major legal precedent set this year. Efraim Zuroff told a news conference that the Center would offer a reward of up to…
Nazi war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro dies
Hungary’s Sandor Kepiro, until recently the world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, died Saturday in Budapest aged 97, said his family, cited by the Hungarian news agency MTI. Kepiro was suspected of ordering the execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in the Serbian town of Novi Sad in…
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