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Verdict Due In German Trial Of 94-Year-Old Ex-Auschwitz Death Camp Guard
A German court is expected to announce on Friday its verdict in the trial of a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people.
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94-Year-Old Former Auschwitz Death Camp Guard, Goes On Trial In Germany
A 94-year-old former SS sergeant went on trial today in western Germany on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, based on accusations that he served as a guard in the Auschwitz death camp as hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews and others were gassed to death there.
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German Politician Gets Suspended Sentence For Nazi Tattoo
A far-right politician in Germany was found guilty today of incitement for showing a tattoo of what appeared to be the Auschwitz death camp while visiting a swimming pool.
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German Court Finds 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Guilty
A 94-year-old German man who worked as a bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted today of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to four years in prison, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials.
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Pro-Putin Bikers Anger Poland With Plan to Ride to Berlin
A Russian biker gang backed by President Vladimir Putin is planning to ride through Europe to celebrate the Soviet Union's role in World War II victory over Nazi Germany, sparking anger in Poland.
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Pop Star Katy Perry Visits Auschwitz Death Camp
US pop princess Katy Perry said Thursday she was full of emotion as she visited Auschwitz, the infamous World War II -era Nazi German death camp in southern Poland that has come to symbolise the Holocaust.
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German, 93, to Face Trial in April Over Auschwitz Deaths
A 93-year-old former Auschwitz death camp officer will go on trial in Germany in April charged with at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, a court said today.
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Auschwitz Anniversary a Reminder of the Danger of Staying Silent
Next month's 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said.
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Poland charges 3 men in theft of Auschwitz sign
Polish prosecutors filed charges today against a Swede with neo-Nazi ties and two Poles acting for profit and said all three had confessed to the brazen theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the gates of the Nazi's Auschwitz death camp last year. They also announced that a second Swede, whose name was not rele...
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Verdict Due In German Trial Of 94-Year-Old Ex-Auschwitz Death Camp Guard
A German court is expected to announce on Friday its verdict in the trial of a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people.
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94-Year-Old Former Auschwitz Death Camp Guard, Goes On Trial In Germany
A 94-year-old former SS sergeant went on trial today in western Germany on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, based on accusations that he served as a guard in the Auschwitz death camp as hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews and others were gassed to death there.
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German Politician Gets Suspended Sentence For Nazi Tattoo
A far-right politician in Germany was found guilty today of incitement for showing a tattoo of what appeared to be the Auschwitz death camp while visiting a swimming pool.
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German Court Finds 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Guilty
A 94-year-old German man who worked as a bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted today of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to four years in prison, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials.
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Pro-Putin Bikers Anger Poland With Plan to Ride to Berlin
A Russian biker gang backed by President Vladimir Putin is planning to ride through Europe to celebrate the Soviet Union's role in World War II victory over Nazi Germany, sparking anger in Poland.
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Pop Star Katy Perry Visits Auschwitz Death Camp
US pop princess Katy Perry said Thursday she was full of emotion as she visited Auschwitz, the infamous World War II -era Nazi German death camp in southern Poland that has come to symbolise the Holocaust.
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German, 93, to Face Trial in April Over Auschwitz Deaths
A 93-year-old former Auschwitz death camp officer will go on trial in Germany in April charged with at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, a court said today.
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Auschwitz Anniversary a Reminder of the Danger of Staying Silent
Next month's 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said.
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Poland charges 3 men in theft of Auschwitz sign
Polish prosecutors filed charges today against a Swede with neo-Nazi ties and two Poles acting for profit and said all three had confessed to the brazen theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the gates of the Nazi's Auschwitz death camp last year. They also announced that a second Swede, whose name was not rele...
