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German prosecutors charge man, 90, with 58 wartime killings

F ormer SS sergeant Adolf Storms lived in Germany unnoticed for more than six decades after World War II until an Austrian university student last year came across his name while researching a 1945 massacre of Jewish forced labourers. The student gave ...

From DAVID RISING, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Simon Wiesenthal,  Efraim Zuroff

90-year-old charged in Germany for Nazi-era crimes

BERLIN (AP) -- A 90-year-old former member of the Nazi's SS has been charged with 58 counts of murder for the 1945 killings of Jewish forced laborers in Austria, authorities said Tuesday. The man is suspected of killing the Jews near the Austrian ...

From DAVID RISING, Buffalo News,  17 Nov 2009

Giant dominoes form tribute to Berlin Wall's fall

BERLIN (AP) -- Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades. Many of the ...

From DAVID RISING, Buffalo News,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lech Walesa,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Gordon Brown,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Angela Merkel

Victim's son urges Nazi hit man to accept blame

AACHEN, Germany—The son of a Dutch civilian killed by a Nazi hit squad during World War II urged the former Waffen SS soldier charged with his father's murder to accept responsibility for his actions in court Monday. In a statement read to the Aachen ...

From DAVID RISING, Boston Globe,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Heinrich Boere

Admitted Nazi hit man on trial for 1944 Dutch killings

AACHEN, Germany - Confessed Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere went on trial yesterday in the western city of Aachen, charged with the 1944 murders of three Dutch civilians in reprisal for partisan attacks. The 88-year-old was brought into the courtroom in a ...

From DAVID RISING, Boston Globe,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Heinrich Boere

Nazi hit man charged with 3 murders goes on trial

AACHEN, Germany - An 88-year-old former member of Adolf Hitler's fanatical Waffen SS went on trial Wednesday on three counts of murder for the wartime hit-style killings of three civilians in the Netherlands. ...

From DAVID RISING, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Adolf Hitler

Nazi hit man goes on trial in Germany

BERLIN—Heinrich Boere has admitted to gunning down three men as part of a Waffen SS death squad -- civilians killed in retribution for partisan attacks in Holland as the tide of World War II turned against the Nazis. But for more than six decades after ...

From DAVID RISING, Boston Globe,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Adolf Hitler

German economic outlook improving, think tanks say

Germany's economy will shrink less than expected this year and return to growth in 2010 as financial markets stabilize following the country's worst recession since World War II, a group of leading economic research groups said Thursday. The ...

From DAVID RISING, eTaiwan News,  15 Oct 2009

Nobel winner wrote about repression in Romania

BERLIN—Herta Mueller never intended to become a writer, it was simply a means of coping with the oppression of everyday life under Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. "I didn't choose what to write," she told the Romanian newspaper Cotidianul earlier ...

From DAVID RISING, Boston Globe,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nicolae Ceausescu,  Swedish Academy,  Angela Merkel

Admitted Nazi hit man trial to begin this month

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's highest court said Thursday it has declined to hear the appeal of admitted Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere, clearing the way for his trial later this month for the execution-style killings of three Dutch civilians during World War ...

From DAVID RISING, Buffalo News,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Adolf Hitler

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