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A German court hands a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. IMAGES of the accused arriving in the Court Room
A rioter wearing a deeply offensive, anti-Semitic sweatshirt at the US Capitol last week is now under arrest. Newser reports the man was photographed wearing a 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt during the US Capitol siege was taken into custody on Wednesday in Virginia. The garment also featured 'Work brings freedom.' It's a translation of "Arbeit macht frei," the German phrase that appeared on the concentration camp’s entrance. Robert Keith Packer, 56, was arrested in Newport News, where he lives. The government will not be seeking detention for Packer. However, Packer is barred from visiting Washington unless it’s for a court appearance.
Dachau (Germany), Apr 29 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Lukas Barth) Germany commemorated on Wednesday the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The tribute ceremony, scheduled for May 3, had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.FOOTAGE OF THE DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP.
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Tucked away in a remote part of the Austrian Alps, this unassuming construction site is the center of a controversy because of its dark past. The usually normal construction of a meat factory in the Austrian municipality of Haiming, near Innsbruck, continued to raise major questions from locals. What's the big deal? Well, Austrian pork producer Handl Tyrol plans to build a bacon and sausage factory here, on the former grounds of a Nazi forced labour camp. During World War Two, hundreds of prisoners were made to build a dam for a hydro-electric power plant in the area. After the surrender of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, the former labor camp was cleared and remained empty until the land was acquired by Austrian power company Tiwag, which didn't care to develop the land. Recently, Tiwag approved the sale of the site to Handl Tyrol, who made plans to build a new factory as soon as possible. However, Tiwag's sale of the controversial site to the pork producer has garnered criticism from descendants of the former landowners of the site, who say that Nazi authorities pushed them off the land. Still others question the impact on history of building over the site with the checkered past. Handl Tyrol representatives have stated that the question of the sales' legality should have been handled between the former landowners and Tiwag, and have already confirmed that they would not delay construction.
Welcome to the Cultybraggan Camp in Perthshire, a place where Nazi German soldiers and officers would be held afterbeing captured during the Second World War. Believe it or not, the Comrie community revealed plans to renovate ten of the huts into a four star hotel. The former category A camp, built in 1941, held 4,000 high security German prisoners-of-war between 1944 and 1948. It is reportedly the last of its kind to be preserved in the UK and Europe. A trust bought the site from the UK Ministry of Defence in 2005 and has since given permission to local businesses to take over the huts. Now, this former war-time prison is going to be transformed in a luxurious accommodation to pull in the tourists. would you ever stay in the same place as former Nazi prisoners of war?
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