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Hungary indicts Nazi-era suspect for war crimes

Hungarian prosecutors say they have indicted a 98-year-old former police officer for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II.

Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in US

The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael Karkoc.

AP IMPACT: Commander of Nazi-led unit lives in US

There is evidence that the unit took part in the brutal suppression of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, fighting the nationalist Polish Home Army as it sought to rid the city of its Nazi occupiers.

Nazi unit leader's Minneapolis life prompts shock

Karkoc's unit was associated with the 1944 Warsaw uprising, in which Nazis brutally suppressed a Polish rebellion against German occupation.

Poland will investigate Nazi-led unit commander

Polish prosecutors say they will investigate a commander in a notorious Nazi SS-led unit who has been found to be living in Minnesota.

Israel's Netanyahu in Poland to visit Nazi camp

Thursday's venue, Auschwitz - preserved as a memorial - remains the most vivid symbol of the cruelty of the Nazi Germany's genocide of World War II, which killed 6 million Jews.

German seminary to probe Nazi jokes claim

A Catholic seminary in Germany says it is investigating claims that trainee priests made anti-Semitic jokes, played far-right music and gave Nazi salutes.

Jewish fund, Germany agree on aid for Nazi victims

A fund for Jewish victims of Nazi crimes says it has reached an agreement with the German government for Berlin to provide some $1 billion in homecare for victims.

Stuttgart museum returns painting sold under Nazis

Stern closed his gallery in 1937 under pressure from the Nazis and sold its paintings before fleeing Germany and resettling in Montreal.

German soccer team confronts neo-Nazi fan violence

While membership in neo-Nazi groups has dropped in Germany, the number of far-right extremists prepared to use violence has grown, the country's domestic intelligence agency found last year.

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MINNEAPOLIS: Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in US

"My father was never a Nazi."

AP IMPACT: Commander in SS-led unit living in US

He would not comment on his wartime service for Nazi Germany.

TALLAHASSEE: Florida expands Holocaust restitution program

Rene Hammond was 18 when the Nazis hauled her family off to Auschwitz, where her parents perished.