A poster campaign aimed at tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals has been launched in Germany.

A 93-year-old man who was deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities yesterday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said.

Jewish organisations have denounced an Estonian newspaper for publishing a mock ad for weight-loss pills depicting emaciated prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp.

Hungary is investigating whether a Holocaust-era war criminal has been living in the capital Budapest, as international and domestic groups clamoured for him to be placed on trial.

Hungary is investigating whether a Holocaust-era war criminal has been living in Budapest, as international and domestic groups called for him to be placed on trial.

Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into Second World War crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps which was closed in the 1980s because of the country’s isolation behind the Iron Curtain.

German prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi death camp guards and others who might now be charged under a new precedent set by the conviction of retired US car worker John Demjanjuk.

A 97-YEAR-OLD man was cleared of war crimes charges stemming from a raid by Hungarian forces that killed 35 people in Serbia during the Second World War.

A 97-year-old man was cleared today of war crimes charges stemming from a raid by Hungarian forces that killed 35 people in Serbia during the Second World War.

A 97-year-old man has been cleared of war crimes charges stemming from a raid by Hungarian forces in Serbia during the Second World War.

A 97-year-old Hungarian man has gone on trial for war crimes over his role in the 1942 killings of civilians in Serbia.

THE world’s third most-wanted Nazi suspect has died before he could be brought to trial in Germany.

The world’s third most-wanted Nazi suspect has died before he could be brought to trial in Germany.

A 90-YEAR-OLD former SS sergeant who was No 4 on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects has died before he could be brought to trial, German authorities said.

A GERMAN court put John Demjanjuk on trial yesterday to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp and his lawyer immediately accused the Munich court of bias.

Suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk went on trial today to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews and his lawyer immediately accused the court of bias.

Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk will go on trial in Munich today in a case that breaks new ground in Germany’s pursuit of Holocaust perpetrators.

THE memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.

GERMAN prosecutors formally charged John Demjanjuk yesterday with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp during World War II.

German prosecutors today formally charged suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder.

Doctors have determined that John Demjanjuk is fit enough to remain in custody at Munich's Stadelheim prison.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, deported from the US to face charges of helping murder of 29,000 people, was transferred to a German prison today.

GERMAN investigators who have hunted Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim for decades said yesterday that new information indicating the former concentration camp doctor died in Egypt in 1992 appears credible and that they will attempt to find his body.

An SS concentration camp doctor accused of murdering hundreds of prisoners will be named today as the world’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal.

An Italian military judge has suspended a work-release permit for a former Nazi SS captain convicted for his role in a 1944 massacre, court officials said today.

The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre today said it has lodged a formal complaint with Austrian authorities over what it termed their “utter failure” to prevent the use of Nazi-era symbols during a weekend gathering of Croatian nationalists.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has asked Venezuela to help find 18 alleged Nazi war criminals it says are believed to be living in the South American nation.