Germany court convicts former Nazi concentration camp secretary
A court in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein Tuesday convicted Irmgard Furchner, 97, for aiding and abetting murder while working as a secretary at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp. Furchner worked at Stutthof between June 1, 1943, and April 1, 1945. While she was employeed, authorities committed “cruel, systematic acts of killing” through gassings, hostile [...]
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Anna Balabina, a law student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Over the past few weeks, Ukrainian authorities have been working on returning Ukrainian soldiers from Russian captivity, and recently brought back [...]
Germany court sentences 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to 5 years imprisonment
Germany’s Neuruppin Regional Court in Brandenburg Tuesday convicted a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard of 3,518 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced him to five years imprisonment. Former SS guard Josef Schuetz was charged for his participation in the “execution by firing squad of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942” and operating the gas [...]
A group of 33 legal and genocide experts Friday released a report accusing Russia of incitement to genocide in Ukraine and calling on the international community to prevent a genocide from occurring. The report, released by the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, used open-source evidence [...]
Abstract: For Israel, core issues surrounding Iran’s still-accelerating nuclear weapons program have been strategic and political, rather than legal. Nonetheless, if Israel should ever decide that it no longer has any reasonable alternative to launching a preemptive attack against certain Iranian military/industrial targets, this defensive first-strike would need to be justified under international law. In [...]
100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to stand trial
An unnamed 100-year-old former guard at Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp during World War II has been indicted on 3,518 counts of accessory to murder. The Neuruppin state court said Monday said that the defendant will stand trial in October. The defendant is alleged to have served at the camp on the outskirts of Berlin between [...]
Memorial Day 2021 Redux: The Fighting Three Wars Photo That Haunts All of the US
The Photo That Haunts All of the United States In a recent JURIST post commemorating Memorial Day, May 31, 2021, one of us wrote about a photo that haunts us. Thanks to the kindness of Alessio Parisi, we are now able to share that photo with you. It is above in black and white and [...]
Israel versus Hamas: Proportionality, Perfidy and the Law of War
“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.” -Guillaume Apollinaire, The New Spirit and the Poets (1917) Whenever Israel finds itself in the midst of major conflict with Hamas, each side seeks to defend itself in military and legal [...]
Former Nazi concentration camp guard removed from US to Germany
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Saturday that former Nazi concentration camp guard Friedrich Karl Berger was removed from the US to Germany. Berger was removed for his service in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system. Berger was an armed guard within the Neuengamme Concentration [...]
Germany prosecutors indict 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary
German prosecutors issued Friday an indictment against a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary, alleging 10,000 counts of aiding, abetting, and being complicit in attempted murders as part of the Nazi apparatus of terror. According to the prosecutors, she “assisted those responsible at the camp in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet [...]
