Germany's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by 89-year-old John Demjanjuk, accused of helping murder 27,900 Jews in a Nazi death camp, to have his scheduled Nov. 30 trial blocked.
A German court has found former Nazi commander Josef Scheungraber guilty of ordering the execution of 14 Italian civilians in Tuscany in 1944 and sentenced the 91-year-old to life in prison.
A German court has decided that John Demjanjuk, an alleged former Nazi camp guard, will be tried for "complicity to murder" 27,900 people at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, where prosecutors believe he worked as a guard in 1943.
Prosecutors have determined that alleged former Nazi guard John Demjanjuk is fit for trial after a medical examination. The 89-year-old Ukrainian native was deported from the United States to Germany in May.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth, an Amsterdam museum will display the original diaries that made the Jewish girl, killed at the age of 13 in a Nazi extermination camp, a household name.
John Demjanjuk, the former Nazi camp guard deported to Germany after a judicial saga in the United States, has been hospitalized, according to his lawyer. He is expected to return to his prison later on Tuesday.
While Germany celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of its constitution, the NPD, the country's main extreme far-right political party, is trying to seduce the young generation, particularly sensitive to its ideology in times of economic crisis.
Nemjanjuk, the accused ex-Nazi prison camp guard is due to stand trial in Germany for his role in exterminating 29,000 jews in Nazi-occupied Poland. But is it worth judging an 89 year old for crimes committed a generation ago?
