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Thanks to lax immigration procedures and an administration led by Juan Perón, believed to have actually aided Nazis' escape to South America, hundreds -- if not thousands -- of war criminals are thought to have settled there. But Perón isn't the only leader to ignore the crimes of fleeing Nazis.
Jul 17, 2018 · German prosecutors are intensifying their hunt for aging Nazi war criminals still at large by expanding investigations into death squads known as the "Einsatzgruppen," which were...
May 12, 2011 · Even among those countries that are officially willing to investigate Nazi war crimes, some are more serious about it than others. Poland leads the world in open cases with 316, and Germany has...
Oct 7, 2021 · Ten years ago, the conviction of former SS guard John Demjanjuk set a precedent enabling prosecutors to charge people for aiding and abetting Nazi crimes in World War Two.
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- They Sentenced 12 to Death
- Seven Were Sentenced to Imprisonment
- Three Were Acquitted
- Hermann Göring
- Martin Bormann
- Albert Speer
Hermann Göring, Reichsmarschalland Hitler’s deputy Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister Wilhelm Keitel, the Chief of the Armed Forces High Command Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Chief of the Reich Main Security Office Alfred Rosenberg, the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories and Leader of the Foreign Policy Office Hans Frank, the ...
Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party Walther Funk, the Reich Minister of Economics Erich Raeder, the Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, Raeder’s successor and briefly President of the German Reich Baldur von Schirach, the National Youth Leader Albert Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production Konstantin von Neurath, Protector of Bohem...
Hjalmar Schacht, the Reich Minister of Economics Franz von Papen, the Chancellor of Germany Hans Fritzche, the Ministerialdirektor in the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. These are some of the key criminals convicted at Nuremberg:
Göring was the highest-ranking Nazi official tried at Nuremberg. He became Reichsmarchallin 1940 and had control over Germany’s armed forces. In 1941 he became Hitler’s deputy. He fell out of favour with Hitler when it became clear that Germany was losing the war. Hitler subsequently stripped Göring of his positions and expelled him from the party....
Bormann was the only Nazi to be tried in absentiaat Nuremberg. He was part of Hitler’s inner circle and in 1943 became Secretary to the Führer. He facilitated the Final Solution, ordering deportations. The Allies believed that he escaped Berlin, but continued to try him and sentence him to death. In 1973 after decades of searching, West German auth...
Speer is known as the Nazi who said sorry. Part of Hitler’s inner circle, Speer was an architect who designed buildings for the Reich. Hitler appointed him Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production in 1942. During the trial, Speer denied knowing about the Holocaust. Yet he accepted moral responsibility for his role in the crimes that the Nazis...
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Dec 14, 2018 · The country is now racing against time to bring the last surviving perpetrators of Nazi war crimes – now well into old age – to justice. But for many survivors it is too little, too late.
Feb 9, 2021 · Feb. 9, 2021. BERLIN — The woman charged last week was 94 and had worked as a secretary. This week, German prosecutors charged a 100-year-old man who had worked as a guard, like the man convicted...
