Category: Nazi concentration camp

Requiem of Defiance

April 14, 2022
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In his later years, my father joined a Welsh miners’ choir, composed of men that shared the daily hardships and very real dangers of digging coal hundreds of feet beneath the ground. They gathered on evenings and weekends to sing together, raising their voices in union as a celebration of community and brotherhood. I remember…

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Nazi War Crimes Suspect, 96, Caught After Fleeing Trial

September 30, 2021
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BERLIN—A 96-year-old German woman was caught hours after failing to turn up for her trial on Thursday on charges of aiding and abetting mass murder in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two, a court spokesperson said. Irmgard Furchner is accused of having contributed as an 18-year-old to the murder of 11,412 people when…

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Secretary to Nazi Camp Commandant Charged With 10,000 Counts of Accessory Murder: Prosecutors

February 6, 2021
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German prosecutors have charged the elderly secretary of the former SS commandant of Stutthof with 10,000 counts of accessory to murder.