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Apr 28, 2023

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 17, 2023

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, 2023

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...

Mar 11, 2023

Austria Observes 25th Anniversary of Anschluss

Mar. 11, 1963 - Austria observed today the 25th anniversary of the day — March 11, 1938 — it disappeared from the European map a quarter...

Feb 24, 2023

West German Students Remember Hans and Sophie Scholl, Executed by Nazis

Feb. 24, 1963 - West German university students observed this weekend the 20th anniversary of the execution of Hans and Sophie Scholl...

Dec 5, 2022

West Germany Asks Chile to Extradite Former Nazi

Dec. 5, 1962 - West Germany has asked the Chilean Government to extradite Walter Rauff, an alleged former collaborator of Adolf Eichmann....

Nov 21, 2022

Gestapo Collaborator Arrested in France

Nov. 21, 1962 - In a suburb of Lille, France today, Jacques Vasseur (pictured) left his mother’s house for the first time in 17 years....

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 25, 2022

Anti-Semitic Violence Flares in Argentina

June 25, 1962 - An anti-Semitic attack on a girl university student was denounced today by the Argentine-Israeli Association, which urged...

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 8, 2022

Hitler's "Wolf's Lair" Now a Tourist Attraction

June 8, 1962 - The so-called “Wolf’s Lair,” the supreme command post of Adolf Hitler in what formerly was German East Prussia, has been...

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....

Mar 9, 2022

Nazi Rockwell Won't Press Charges Against Jewish Student Who Slugged Him

Mar. 9, 1962 - A Jewish student who slugged George Lincoln Rockwell during a student forum in San Diego yesterday acted only on a sudden...

Mar 8, 2022

Jewish College Student Slugs Nazi Rockwell

Mar. 8, 1962 - George Lincoln Rockwell (right), leader of the American Nazi party, was slugged by a Jewish college student (center) today...