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  • BERLIN—A German court found retired U.S. auto worker John Demjanjuk guilty of helping murder nearly 30,000 people as a Nazi death-camp guard in Poland during World War II, bringing an end to an 18-month trial that is likely to be the last of its kind.

    Germany Convicts Nazi-Camp Guard of Aiding Murder Mary M. Lane 2011

  • But the book's central power lies in the reader's awareness that Babe is not merely an innocent caught up in a terrifying chase — he is also an American Jew, matching wits with a manifestation of death-camp evil.

    Thriller Plots With Terror Themes Howard Gordon 2011

  • BERLIN—German authorities won the extradition of suspected Nazi death-camp guard John Demjanjuk from the U.S. two years ago, promising an orderly trial and swift justice.

    Demjanjuk Trial Gets Bogged Down Mary M. Lane 2011

  • I asked the panelists if they really thought that comparing the Gaza ghetto to the Warsaw Ghetto (a holding tank for the Auschwitz death-camp, to which Roma and Jews rounded up elsewhere were added in their tens of thousands) was helpful in our fight for the Palestinian cause.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Adler 1910-88, is a noteworthy example of the struggle to shape personal death-camp experience to the demands of fiction.

    The Novel and the Holocaust Sam Sacks 2011

  • A German court found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping murder nearly 30,000 people as a Nazi death-camp guard in Poland during World War II and sentenced the 91-year-old retired U.S. auto worker to five years in prison, bringing an end to an 18-month trial likely to be the last of its kind.

    Raj Verdict, Skype Deal, Toyota Slips to No. 3 2011

  • "Free Fruit for Young Widows" is a painfully simplistic story about a death-camp survivor who becomes a brutal killer in the Israeli army.

    Life With and Without Tradition Sam Sacks 2012

  • The triumphalism of the propaganda films produced by Goebbels's ministry gives way to particularly horrific scenes of death-camp corpses, and seemingly endless vistas of a Berlin reduced to rubble by Allied bombing.

    'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale Joe Morgenstern 2012

  • Already he has a death-camp look: he's seen himself shirtless in the mirrors, in the restrooms he finds, ribs where only flesh was before.

    Hotel Chelsea - Intercut 8 2010

  • Like vultures circling dying prey, Bureau II plundered the banks and treasuries of occupied nations, extorted funds from Jews and others seeking exit permits from Germany, confiscated the property they left behind, and stole vast sums of gold, currency, and other valuables from the death-camp inmates.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

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