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 Demjanjuk 
 Taken to 
 German Prison 

Nazi war crimes suspect to hear charges at Munich jail

May 12, 09 5:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk arrived today in Germany and was taken from Munich airport directly to prison, AP reports. German authorities have charged the retired Cleveland auto worker with being an accessory to the murder of some 29,000 civilians in Nazi-occupied Poland. His deportation from the US sets... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • deportation • Nazi • Munich • John Demjanjuk • Nazis

Demjanjuk Removed by Ambulance

US set to deport
alleged Nazi; Germany expects him tomorrow

May 11, 09 3:52 PM CDT
(AP) - Suspected Nazi death-camp guard John Demjanjuk was taken from his home by ambulance today as US immigration agents prepared to deport him to Germany. It was not clear where the ambulance was taking the 89-year-old Demjanjuk, who is wanted on a Munich arrest warrant that accuses him of 29,000... More »

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Germany • Poland • murder • appeal • deportation • Nazi • John Demjanjuk • ambulance • arrest warrant

Demjanjuk Won't Contest High Court Decision

Deportation to Germany, trial now await alleged Nazi

May 8, 09 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, 89, will not seek another review of his case by the Supreme Court after the first was dismissed without comment, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The concession paves the way for the Ohio man’s deportation to Germany, where he is charged as an accessory... More »

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Germany • appeal • deportation • concentration camp • Nazi • John Paul Stevens • US Supreme Court • John Demjanjuk • murder charges

Supreme Court Won't Stop Demjanjuk's Deportation

Options dwindling for alleged Nazi guard

May 7, 09 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Demjanjuk's last-ditch efforts to avoid deportation to Germany because of his alleged past as a Nazi guard appear to be hitting a brick wall. Justice John Paul Stevens today rejected without comment his plea to have the Supreme Court stop the deportation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. His attorneys... More »

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Holocaust • appeal • Nazi • John Paul Stevens • US Supreme Court • John Demjanjuk

(Newser) - A federal appeals court today ruled that alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk can be deported to Germany to stand trial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Demjanjuk’s family had argued that the 89-year-old’s poor health would make the flight tantamount to torture, resulting in a stay last month. An... More »

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Germany • Ohio • US Appeals court • deportation • Nazi • US Supreme Court • John Demjanjuk • murder charges

Hitler's Nazi Super-Cows Head to Britain

Führer attempted to create master race
of Aryan oxen

Apr 22, 09 1:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British farm specializing in rare breeds has purchased descendants from a Nazi project aimed at breeding an ubër-ox, the Independent reports. The Heck cattle stock were developed from efforts to recreate the auroch—a huge proto-cow that once roamed Europe—through selective breeding to remove the genes of... More »

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cattle • Adolf Hitler • cows • Nazi

Holocaust Tattoos Indelibly Link Fellow Survivors

Boys who stood side by side in Auschwitz meet again in Israel

Apr 19, 09 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki don't remember crossing paths briefly in 1944, at perhaps the defining moment of their lives, but the ink on their arms leaves no doubt. Serial numbers the Nazis tattooed on each man's arm at Auschwitz are consecutive—Sholowicz is B-14594 and Sieradzki is B-14595. "... More »

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Israel • Holocaust • tattoos • concentration camp • Nazi • Auschwitz • survivors

 US Seizes Demjanjuk; 
 Court Halts Deportation 

Appeals court will consider family's claims that Demjanjuk is too frail to travel

Apr 14, 09 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk will stay in the US for at least a while longer after a federal appeals court granted him a last-minute stay of deportation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Six US immigration agents removed Demjanjuk from his home in suburban Cleveland today and drove him away... More »

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Germany • war crimes • concentration camp • Nazi • old age • Munich • John Demjanjuk

Obscure Swiss Architect Wins Pritzker Prize

Zumthor 'reaffirmed architecture’s indispensable place'

Apr 12, 09 5:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - You’ve probably never heard of him, but tomorrow Peter Zumthor will receive what’s considered the Nobel Prize of architecture, the New York Times reports. His work isn’t flashy or well-known, but he “develops buildings of great integrity—untouched by fad or fashion” that have “reaffirmed... More »

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architecture • Switzerland • Nazi • spa • prize • Pritzker Prize • Peter Zumthor

 Accused Nazi Guard 
 1 Step From 
 Deportation 

Demjanjuk has one more appeal between him an a German trial

Apr 10, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal court today denied John Demjanjuk’s appeal to be granted a stay of deportation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The alleged former Nazi concentration camp guard has one more appeal to file. If that fails, the 89-year-old will be sent to Germany to stand trial for being an... More »

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Poland • death • concentration camp • Nazi • World War II • John Demjanjuk

(AP) - An immigration judge today revoked John Demjanjuk's stay of deportation to Germany, clearing the way for the retired autoworker to be sent to Germany to face charges of being a Nazi death camp guard. The 89-year-old suburban Cleveland man, who came to America after World War II, is accused in... More »

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Germany • Poland • Holocaust • deportation • concentration camp • Nazi • John Demjanjuk

Germany Bans Group Behind Nazi Summer Camps

'Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend' indoctrinated children with racism, minister says

Mar 31, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The German government today banned a neo-Nazi youth group it says ran summer camps where children were instructed in racist and National Socialist ideology, Der Spiegel reports. “Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend,” the German Youth Faithful to the Homeland, allegedly included military exercises and “racial science” classes—which discussed... More »

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Germany • Wolfgang Schauble • Nazi • German • Neo-Nazi • right wingers • extreme right • summer camp

'Good Nazi'
Film Awakens Ugly Ghosts

Biopic sure to reopen old wounds between China, Japan

Mar 24, 09 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new film about a hero Nazi party member is threatening to stir old tensions between China and Japan, BBC reports. John Rabe relates the true story of a German businessman who saved thousands of Chinese from a Japanese massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. China is still... More »

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China • film • Japan • Nazi • Nanjing • movies • John Rabe

Deported Ex-Nazi Goes Free in Austria

Concentration camp guard can't be prosecuted there

Mar 20, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Austria says there’s no way it can prosecute Josias Kumpf, the 83-year-old ex-Nazi guard the US shipped its way yesterday, Reuters reports. “We have always pointed out to the United States that he cannot be charged here,” said an Austrian justice ministry spokeswoman. Kumpf has admitted to... More »

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Wisconsin • Austria • deportation • Nazi • Nazi collaborators • Josias Kumpf

 Nazi Prosecutor Loved 
 Zinging 'Fat Boy' Goering 

Letters offer glimpse into Nuremberg

Mar 20, 09 7:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newly released letters offer a glimpse behind the scenes of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, reports the BBC. The letters that British prosecutor David Maxwell-Fyfe sent his wife reveal a playful side—he refers to Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering as "the fat boy" and "slap-happy Hermann"—... More »

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prosecutor • trial • Nazi • Nazism • Nuremberg trials • war crimes tribunal

US Deports Former Nazi Guard to Austria

83-year-old Wis. resident took part in massacre of 42K

Mar 19, 09 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A former guard at a Nazi concentration camp who participated in a mass slaughter of prisoners has been deported from Wisconsin to Austria, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Immigration officials today sent Josias Kumpf, 83, back to his homeland, where his fate is unclear. He had lived in the US... More »

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Wisconsin • Austria • deportation • concentration camp • Nazi • Nazi collaborators • Josias Kumpf

(Newser) - A retired Ohio autoworker born in Ukraine is facing charges in the murder of 29,000 Jews during World War II, the AP reports. German authorities allege John Demjanjuk was a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland between March and September 1943. Demjanjuk, 88, maintains his innocence. He... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • Ohio • deportation • concentration camp • Nazi • extradition • murder trial • John Demjanjuk • auto worker

(Newser) - A quarter of British schoolchildren aged 11-16 don’t understand the purpose of the Nazis’ Polish concentration camp Auschwitz, the Telegraph reports. 10% of kids surveyed were unsure of what Auschwitz was, while 8% think it was a country on Germany’s border, 2% each think it is a beer... More »

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Holocaust • England • children • Nazi • Auschwitz • survey • historical memory

WWII Nazi Opus Ignites Passions (Pro and Con)

Publishers roll dice on shocking French work by Yank Jonathan Littell

Mar 4, 09 10:10 AM CST
(Newser) - A novel about a Nazi officer with a taste for sodomy and incest might not scream “bestseller”—especially at nearly 1,000 pages long and translated from French. Yet Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones topped charts in France and precipitated a bidding war among US publishers. HarperCollins... More »

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Holocaust • literature • publishing • Nazi • HarperCollins • novel • book • Leo Tolstoy • Jonathan Littell • The Kindly Ones • War and Peace

Long-Sought
'Dr. Death' Nazi
Died in 1992 

Cruel camp doctor
fled to Egypt and converted to Islam

Feb 4, 09 7:02 PM CST
(Newser) - One of the most notorious Nazis still sought by Holocaust investigators actually died in 1992 in his adopted city of Cairo, the New York Times reports. Aribert Heim was known as Dr. Death for his sadistic medical procedures at the Mauthausen concentration camp. Heim narrowly evaded capture in 1962 before... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • Jews • concentration camp • Nazi

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