1960s Timeline

Nov. 20, 1963 - The Nazi officer who put an end to the diary of Anne Frank by arresting her and her family in 1944 has been identified as...

May 3, 1963 - Twenty-four persons have been charged with the murder of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Jews, at the Auschwitz...

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, 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, 1963 - Former Nazi officer Erich Rajakowitsch, alleged right-hand man of Adolf Eichmann, turned himself in to Austrian...

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, 1962 - European Christians who secretly befriended Jews in Nazi-occupied countries will now be acclaimed. Jews in free-world...

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, 1962 - A witness testifying in Germany’s biggest war crimes trial since the Nuremberg cases said today that Nazi S.S. troops...

Aug. 21, 1962 - Hermann Höfle (pictured last year), facing trial in Vienna on charges of participating in the mass slaughter of Jews in...

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...

July 13, 1962 - Otto Hunsche (left), former SS captain and a close associate of Adolf Eichmann, was sentenced today to five years in...

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...

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, 1962 - Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously rejected today Adolf Eichmann’s appeal against his death sentence for a major role in...

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, 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, 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, 1962 - Karl Wolff (second from left), a former Nazi S.S. general who was a prominent figure in German-Allied peace negotiations...

🎙 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...