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Wednesday 22 March 2023

# SS

Last year
2022
# ex-Nazi trial
Germany seeks five-years' jail for ex-Nazi guard, now 101
Cross-examined about his work at the camp, Schuetz had denied knowledge about what happened there.
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May 17th 2022, 4:48 PM
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# Verdict
This 94-year-old former Nazi death camp guard will find out today if he's going to prison
Reinhold Hanning faces charges of complicity in 170,000 murders at Auschwitz.
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May 27th 2016, 7:17 AM
# Poll
Poll: Should Nazi prison guards be tried for war crimes?
For more than 60 years German courts only prosecuted Nazi war criminals if evidence showed they personally committed atrocities.
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Jun 19th 2014, 9:40 AM
# right winger
VIDEO: Nazi-sympathiser who planned to blow up mosques plays Pro Evo in an SS hat
…while drinking a brimful of white wine.
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May 1st 2014, 7:24 PM
# Nazi-era crimes
Three suspected Auschwitz guards --- aged 88, 92 and 94 --- arrested in Germany
The men have undergone medical tests, and a judge confirmed their fitness to be detained in a prison hospital.
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Feb 21st 2014, 10:46 AM
# Massacre
88-year-old former SS member charged over massacre of French town in 1944
Nazi troops blockaded and then set fire to a church, in which dozens of women and children were burned alive. In total 642 men, women and children were killed.
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Jan 8th 2014, 10:14 PM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Wednesday
Catch up on the day’s biggest stories, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed.
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Nov 30th 2011, 7:50 PM
# Nazi Files
German intelligence agency admits destruction of files linking staff to Nazi SS, Gestapo
The destruction of files relating to around 250 BND employees was discovered during a historical inquiry into the organisation’s links with Nazi Germany.
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Nov 30th 2011, 5:23 PM
# nazi trial
Former death camp guard found guilty of helping Nazis to kill thousands
Trial of John Demjanjuk could not find specific evidence to show he killed Sobibor concentration camp victims – but proved that his work there showed he was an accessory to death.
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May 12th 2011, 1:04 PM
# Rochus Misch
Hitler's bodyguard: I'm too old to answer fan mail
Rochus Misch, 93, says he’s now simply too old to answer all the requests for autographs he gets from around the world.
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Jan 28th 2011, 9:06 AM