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A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday. The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,” prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the suspect’s name. He is charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to murder between July 1943 and February 1945.

(Last Updated On: January 25, 2023) HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Holocaust Remembrance Day – Each year on January 27th, the world remembers one of the most horrific events in modern history. This tragic event is known as the Holocaust. The holocaust occurred during WWII when Nazi Germany killed millions of innocent victims. The day is also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. #HolocaustRemembranceDay Nazi Germany is one of the evilest regimes that ever existed. They persecuted and killed millions of people in just under four years. One group in particular...

A 100-year-old concentration camp guard refused to make a statement as he became the oldest man to go on trial for Nazi-era crimes today. The centenarian, identified only as Josef S, also hid his face from cameras as he appeared in court in Germany charged with complicity in 3,518 murders at the Sachsenhausen death camp between 1942 and 1954. Charges against Josef, who was an SS paramilitary and a camp watchman, include aiding and abetting the 'execution by firing squad of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942' and the murder of prisoners 'using the poisonous gas Zyklon B'. Josef's refusal...

On the evening of 10 November 1938 many people all over Britain would have sat down, taken a sip of their Bournevita, and with a comfortable sigh, opened their latest issue of Homes and Gardens. Meanwhile in Germany, seven months after the country had invaded Austria, Kristallnacht began – the Night of Broken Glass, when with sickening violence, the Nazis burnt over 1000 synagogues and destroyed 7,000 Jewish businesses throughout Germany and Austria. Ninety-one people were killed by the Stormtroopers and for the first time Jews were arrested on a massive scale and about 30,000 Jewish men were sent to...

The U.S. Department of Justice initiated formal proceedings this week to have a former Nazi guard living in Mercer County removed from the country. Anton Geiser, 84, of Sharon, came to the Untied States in 1956. But in 2004, the federal government filed a complaint against him alleging he was not entitled to citizenship because he had "personally assisted the Nazi government in persecuting persons because of race, religion or national origin." Mr. Geiser, who the prosecution said served as an armed SS Death's Head guard at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin, Germany, during most of 1943, fought the...

Monument unveiled to Catholic priests killed in Nazi camps Nov 4, 2006, 17:23 GMT Berlin - Catholic priests and monks, the bulk of them Polish, who were killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp near Berlin were commemorated Saturday with the unveiling of a stone sculpture in the presence of Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Poland. The sculpture is engraved with the names of 96 clergy who died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the north-west outskirts of Berlin. Historians working for the Catholic archdiocese of Berlin have so far documented the names of 711 Catholic clergy from Poland, Germany and...

More than 500 people gathered at the Sachsenhausen memorial Sunday to mark the 59th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp. Just outside Berlin, some 200,000 people - including political prisoners, captives from Poland, Soviet POWs as well as Jews - were interned at Sachsenhausen between 1936 and 1945, and tens of thousands died. "The memory of the murdered must serve as a warning for coming generations," said former prisoner Zdzislaw Jasko, now vice president of the International Sachsenhausen Committee. The camp, liberated April 22, 1945 by the Red Army, was then used by the Soviet occupiers to...

A U.S. military official presented a granddaughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with copies Thursday of World War II documents confirming the death of her father, Stalin's oldest son, in a Nazi prison camp. Jerry D. Jennings, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs, handed a blue folder to Galina Dzhugashvili during a visit to discuss U.S.-Russian efforts to learn the fate of servicemen missing from World War II and Cold War conflicts. Dzhugashvili was the daughter of Yakov Dzhugashvili, a Soviet senior lieutenant who died at the Sachsenhausen camp in 1943 after Stalin declined to swap him...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department said on Thursday it sued to revoke the U.S. citizenship of an accused Nazi concentration camp guard who allegedly took an oath of personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler during World War II. It said it filed the lawsuit in federal court in Cleveland against Jakob Miling, 78, a native of the former Yugoslavia who now lives in Lyndhurst, Ohio. The lawsuit alleged Miling served as a guard at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. At the German camp, Miling and other guards manned machine guns...