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Prosecutors file charges against former SS Sgt. Adolf Storms on 58 counts of murder in connection with a massacre of Jewish forced laborers in Austria in 1945. October 2009: Heinrich Boere, 87, goes on trial charged with the World War II murders of three...
Tags: Germany, Berlin, Herbertus Bikker, Schutzstaffel, Anton Malloth, Theresienstadt concentration camp, Friedrich Engel, Nazi Germany, Ex-Nazi Party members, Law Crime, Heinrich Boere
Germany — A man accused of murdering Dutch civilians as a member of a Waffen SS hit squad said at his trial Friday that he was proud about being chosen as a volunteer to fight for the Nazis. Heinrich Boere, 88, made his first comments to the Aachen state...
Tags: Heinrich Boere, Waffen SS, Germany, Netherlands, Aachen, Operation Silbertanne, Nazi SS
The German pensioner who has been charged with multiple counts of murder was uncovered by a student of political science at the University of Vienna. The 90-year-old man has not been publicly identified but is accused of taking part in a massacre of Jewish...
Tags: Nazi army, Germany, Hitler Youth, Deutsch Schuetzen, jewish forced, University of Vienna, old man, jewish labourer, Austria, small town, Duisburg, Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust, Religion Belief, Nazi Germany, Schutzstaffel, The Holocaust, Law Crime, Ex-Nazi Party members, John Demjanjuk, Adolf Hitler, Beer Hall Putsch, Homophobia, Efraim Zuroff, Austrian Nazis, Waffen-SS, Discrimination, Responsibility for the Holocaust, Nuremberg Trials, Friedrich Engel, Heinrich Boere, Theresienstadt concentration camp, Herbertus Bikker, Anton Malloth
Boere, on trial for killing three Dutch men in retaliation for resistance attacks on the German occupiers during World War II, must first be fitted with a hearing aid before the trial will resume, ANP said. Boere, 88, was sentenced to death in absentia...
Tags: Heinrich Boere
Lawyers for a former Nazi death squad member, charged with killing members of the Dutch resistance in World War II, asked that the prosecutor be replaced. The lawyers for Heinrich Boere, 88, who confessed to shooting three of his own countrymen between...
Tags: Nazi, Heinrich Boere
One of the 10 most wanted Nazi suspects has gone on trial in Germany accused of murdering three Dutch civilians during the second world war . Heinrich Boere, a Dutchman who was in the Waffen-SS, admitted the killings to Dutch authorities while in captivity...
Tags: Heinrich Boere, Nazi SS, Germany, nazi hitman, Aachen
Boere allegedly shot and killed three resistance fighters in the Nazi occupied Netherlands in 1944. A Dutch court sentenced him to death in absentia for the crime some 60 years ago, but the ruling was later changed to a lifelong prison sentence...Authorities...
Tags: Nazis, Heinrich Boere, Netherlands, hit man, Germany, Adolf Hitler, nazis hit
An 88-year-old former Nazi SS soldier of Dutch origin is well enough to stand trial for the murder of three Dutch resistance fighters, a German court has ruled, overturning an earlier decision. Prosecutors charged Heinrich Boere in April 2008 over the...
Tags: Heinrich Boere, stand trial, appeals court, court rules, Cologne, Nazi, nazi hit, hit man, Germany
Heinrich Boere was due to be tried in Aachen early this year in what would have been one of Germany's last Nazi war crimes trials. But the court in the western city said a medical examination had found his health was too poor for him to stand trial. "The...
Tags: war crimes, Heinrich Boere, Nazi, Germany