Nazi war criminals

Shira Haas to star in Netflix remake of ‘The Boys from Brazil’

Filming will begin in December in the UK, Germany, Bulgaria, and Spain.

Shira Haas in the Netflix series, 'Bodies.'
A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Buchenwald Memorial allowed to refuse entry to people wearing keffiyehs, court rules

 Herberts Cukurs, the 'Butcher of Riga,' pictured in 1965.

Latvia reopens criminal investigation into 'Butcher of Riga' following condemnation

 Employees handle a box with Nazi-related material that was among several boxes originally confiscated by local authorities when they were shipped to Argentina in 1941, after the boxes were recently discovered by chance in the archives of the Supreme Court of Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Argentina's top court finds 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement


Polish PM's father: Jews gladly moved to ghettos to get away from Poles

“Do you know who chased the Jews away to the Warsaw Ghetto? The Germans, you think? No. The Jews themselves went," Kornel Morawiecki said.

Holocaust survivors enter Auschwitz 73 years after its liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 2018

Pensioner becomes first UK citizen to be investigated for Nazi war crimes

In the 1990s, Chrzanowski's stepson John Kingston informed London's Metropolitan Police of his suspicions.

A man wears a costume with a swastika armband

'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' submits final request for clemency

Despite continuing efforts to put Nazi war criminals on trial, the old age and failing health of suspected perpetrators often prove to be a stumbling block for prosecutors.

Oskar Groening, defendant and former Nazi SS officer dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", is pictured in the courtroom during his trial in Lueneburg, Germany, July 15, 2015.

Défection du Mossad

L’agence d’espionnage dévoile ses tentatives infructueuses de traque des criminels nazis

Officiers SS. De gauche à droite : Richard Baer (commandant d’Auschwitz), Josef Mengele et Rudolf Hoess (ancien commandant d’Auschwitz)

Convicted 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz' challenges jail time

Groening, who is physically frail, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015, in one of the last cases against a surviving Nazi.

Oskar Groening

German court rules 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz' fit to go to jail

Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015 for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at Auschwitz.

Oskar Groening

US Holocaust survivor’s help sparks criminal charges against Nazi guard

An American holocaust survivor identified ex-guard Johann Rehbogen as a teenage SS officer who taunted her and other female prisoners as they undressed each morning.

Judith Meisel

Above the fold: Why try Nazis in their 90s

In 2017 we are not only witnessing the dilution of Holocaust history, we are also being subjected to an abuse of Holocaust memory.

Former SS medic Hubert Zafke, accused of aiding in 3,681 murders in Auschwitz in 1944, attends his trial on September 12, 2016 at the court in Neubrandenburg.

Chasse infructueuse

Un document inédit révèle les échecs du Mossad dans la traque des criminels nazis

Copie du plan « Décision B/4 »

Woman learns grandfather was notorious Nazi criminal in 'Schindler's List'

The knowledge plunged her "into the darkest crisis" of her life.

Nazi war criminal Amon Goth's headshot