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A Stuttgart Public Prosecutor brought charges Monday in a district court in Mannheim against a 94-year-old former Schutzstaffel (SS) guard of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp for aiding and abetting the murders committed in the camp. The man,...

Authorities in Germany have announced the death of Oskar Groening, a former Nazi SS officer who was known as "the bookkeeper of Auschwitz." Groening was sentenced last November to four years in prison...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government's proposed plan to allow further economic development...

The Higher Regional Court in Celle, Germany, on Wednesday ruled that Oskar Groening, a former Auschwitz guard known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz," is not too elderly to serve a four-year prison sentence. The now 96-year-old...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Office of the Attorney General of Indonesia announced Thursday that it would rescind a policy that banned lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals from becoming employees....

The Neubrandenburg state court announced on Tuesday that it is ending the trial of former SS medic Hubert Zafke after experts determined he is unfit to stand trial because of his dementia. Zafke, 96, was charged with...

An Austrian court in the District of Feldkirch found a man guilty of violating the country's anti-Nazi laws on Monday for his claims that the mass killing of Jews in gas chambers is a fictitious story. Austria's Prohibition...

Poland's special prosecutors have requested the US extradite a Minnesota man accused of Nazi war crimes. Michael Karkoc, 98, is a former commander of an SS-led Nazi unit responsible for burning Polish villages and killing civilians during World...

The Austria Constitutional Court on Friday ruled that the government seizure of the apartment complex where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born is constitutional. The Court elaborated [press release, PDF;...

Romania's parliament approved legislation on Friday that facilitates financial support for Holocaust survivors. The law, which will be enforced starting July 1, will offer 400 lei (USD $97.98) per month for each year of deportation or detention to...