Auschwitz Trial Opens in Frankfurt
May 3, 1963 - Twenty-four persons have been charged with the murder of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Jews, at the Auschwitz...
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- Apr 28
Two Former Eichmann Aides Charged with Mass Murder
Apr. 28, 1963 - Two former aides of Adolf Eichmann have been charged with murder in the killing of at least 300,000 Hungarian Jews in...
- Apr 21
20th Anniversary of Battle of Warsaw Ghetto is Honored
Apr. 21, 1963 - Ceremonies were held in New York and in many other places in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the...
- Apr 17
Eichmann’s Right-Hand Man Turns Himself In
Apr. 17, 1963 - Former Nazi officer Erich Rajakowitsch, alleged right-hand man of Adolf Eichmann, turned himself in to Austrian...
- Apr 13
10 Ukrainians Executed for Having Served S.S. Guards During WWII
Apr. 13, 1963 - A Ukrainian court has convicted 11 Soviet citizens of having served as S.S. guards in a Nazi death camp in Poland where...
- Dec 26, 2022
European Christians Who Helped Jews in WWII To Be Acclaimed as “Righteous Gentiles”
Dec. 26, 1962 - European Christians who secretly befriended Jews in Nazi-occupied countries will now be acclaimed. Jews in free-world...
- Nov 14, 2022
Ex-Nazi Charged with Murder of 40,000 in Poland in 1942
Nov. 14, 1962 - Martin Fellenz (pictured during WWII), a former major in the Nazi Elite Guard, went on trial today, charged with the...
- Nov 13, 2022
Testimony on Nazi War Crimes Heard in Coblenz
Nov. 13, 1962 - A witness testifying in Germany’s biggest war crimes trial since the Nuremberg cases said today that Nazi S.S. troops...
- Aug 21, 2022
Ex-Nazi Mass Murderer Hangs Himself in Prison
Aug. 21, 1962 - Hermann Höfle (pictured last year), facing trial in Vienna on charges of participating in the mass slaughter of Jews in...
- Jul 23, 2022
Nazi “Mercy Killers” Charged in West Germany
July 23, 1962 - More than 17 years after the collapse of the Nazi regime, one of Hitler’s chief planners for the “mercy killings” of the...
- Jul 13, 2022
Former SS Captain Gets Five Years for Role in Mass Murder
July 13, 1962 - Otto Hunsche (left), former SS captain and a close associate of Adolf Eichmann, was sentenced today to five years in...
- Jun 22, 2022
Ex-Nazi Gets Life Imprisonment for Mass Murder
June 22, 1962 - A West Berlin court has sentenced Dr. Albert Filbert, 56 years old, a former colonel in the Nazi S.S., to life...
- Jun 1, 2022
🚨Eichmann Hanged in Israel
June 1, 1962 - Adolf Eichmann (pictured in 1942) was hanged in Israel this morning just after midnight for the part he played in the...
- May 28, 2022
Eichmann's Appeal Rejected in Jerusalem
May 28, 1962 - Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously rejected today Adolf Eichmann’s appeal against his death sentence for a major role in...
- May 16, 2022
Former Nazi Admits Murdering Jewish Hostages
May 16, 1962 - A West Berlin bank manager admitted today that, as a Nazi officer, he had ordered firing squads to shoot Jewish hostages....
- Feb 26, 2022
Former S.S. Guard Faces Charges for Murdering 20 Jews in WWII
Feb. 26, 1962 - A former S.S. (élite guard) sergeant went on trial in Stuttgart today, charged with the murder of 20 Jews during World...
- Feb 19, 2022
Eichmann's Appeal to Be Heard March 22
Feb. 19, 1962 - Adolf Eichmann’s appeal of his conviction and death sentence will be heard by the Supreme Court in Jerusalem March 22, an...
- Jan 22, 2022
Former Nazi SS General Karl Wolff is Arreste
Jan. 22, 1962 - Karl Wolff (second from left), a former Nazi S.S. general who was a prominent figure in German-Allied peace negotiations...
- Jan 20, 2022
Two-Part Podcast on Holocaust Organizer Adolf Eichman
🎙 On this date in 1942, Adolf Eichmann and other senior Nazis met in Wannsee to hammer out the details of their "Final Solution to the...
- Dec 15, 2021
On this date in 1960, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to hang
🎙 Check out our 2-part podcast that covers the life and crimes of this Nazi fiend. LISTEN: Part One Part Two #wwii #holocaust #history...
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