THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Six women who were guards at the Auschwitz death camp are being investigated on suspicion of complicity in mass murder, German authorities confirmed on Friday.
The women are among 50 former Auschwitz guards still living in Germany whose cases are being examined by the country's Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes.
Thomas Will, an investigator at the Central Office, confirmed that the women were under investigation for allegedly aiding and abetting murder. The women are now in their 90s, Mr Will said. The female guards were assigned to women's barracks.
Earlier this year, German authorities launched a fresh attempt to bring surviving perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice, which has so far resulted in the arrest of alleged Auschwitz guard Hans Lipschis, 93.
Lipschis, who was arrested in Aalen, southern Germany, claims he was only a cook.
The renewed push follows the conviction in 2011 of John Demjanjuk, a guard at Sobibor death camp. » | Jeevan Vasagar, Berlin | Friday, August 09, 2013
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IC PUBLICATIONS: Saudi Arabia on Sunday compared Israel's deadly assault on the Gaza Strip to Nazi war crimes as Yemen called for trying Israeli officials at the International Criminal Court.
Saudi Arabia, which condemns the Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people and the threats of Israeli officials to turn Gaza into an inferno, sees that Israel through its actions is copying the war crimes of the Nazis," an unidentified Saudi official told the official SPA news agency. Saudi likens Gaza assault to Nazi war crimes >>>
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