Hungarian prosecutors formally announced Tuesday they would appeal against the ''not guilty'' verdict against a 97-year-old Hungarian accused of Nazi war crimes in 1942.
The diaries of feared Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the so-called ''Angel of Death'' who carried out gruesome medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz, will be auctioned in the United States.
Hungarian Nazi war crime suspect Sandor Kepiro was found not guilty by a Budapest court Monday of ordering the rounding up and execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in Serbia in 1942.
Ukranian-born John Demjanjuk was found guilty of helping the Nazis gas some 27,900 Jews while serving as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
The verdict is expected Monday in the trial of suspected Nazi war criminal Sandor Kepiro, with the prosecution calling for a prison sentence, while the defence insists the 97-year-old should be acquitted.
Poland's president made a fresh apology Sunday during a ceremony remembering a 1941 pogrom which saw hundreds of Jews massacred by their own neighbours.
German prosecutors said Friday that they have withdrawn a demand for ex-Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk to return to jail pending appeals of his conviction for assisting in killing nearly 30,000 Jews.
The Austrian town of Braunau announced Friday it was annulling honorary titles granted to native son Adolf Hitler, following a scandal in the country over surviving honours from the Nazi era.
Hundreds of Holocaust-era mass graves are scattered around Eastern Europe, scholars said Friday, urging authorities to protect them as they owed it to victims of World War II atrocities.
