Weiss doesn’t remember Hanning personally. None of the camp survivors who have testified at the trial do. But to the court at Detmold, that didn’t matter. They were there to paint a picture of what it ...

Closing arguments expected in the German trial of a former SS officer known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” were postponed Thursday due to the ill health of the 94-year-old defendant. Presiding judge ...

Jewish groups welcomed the conviction Wednesday of a former Nazi SS officer known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” and urged justice authorities to maintain pressure on ageing war criminals. Seven ...

“It is certainly not an easy trial for us,” the judge Franz Kompisch told the court. “This is a trial which is attracting and creating a lot of attention and setting off emotions.” The charges against ...

BERLIN (AP) — The trial of a 93-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard resumed Tuesday after the suspect was deemed fit to face the court following a canceled session last week. Presiding Judge ...

BERLIN (AP) — Attorneys representing dozens of Auschwitz survivors and their relatives criticized the German justice system Wednesday, saying it moved far too slowly in bringing to trial a former SS ...

LUENEBURG, Germany -- Former SS Sgt. Oskar Groening told a German court Tuesday he helped keep watch as thousands of Jews were led from cattle cars directly to the gas chambers at the Auschwitz death ...

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BERLIN (AP) — Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered the trials of leaders of the Auschwitz death camp in World War II, has died at the age of 90.

Possible trials for 326 more former officials of the Auschwitz death camp, in addition to the 17 found guilty and sentenced last Thursday at the conclusion of the 21-month trial in Frankfurt, were ...