By Del Quentin Wilber Bloomberg Business Week WASHINGTON — Federal agent Frank Hunter grabbed a cup of coffee, sat down at his kitchen table and fired up his laptop computer to begin his daily hunt for modern-day war criminals. It didn’t take him long to come across a propaganda video posted by Islamic State. Hunter watched…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least 38 suspected Nazi war criminals removed from the U.S. continued receiving their Social Security benefits as part of a strange deal struck with the Justice Department, the Seattle Times reports. One of them is former Auschwitz guard Jakob Denzinger, who fled to Germany and still collects about $1,500 a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Looking to get a better understanding of extremist and racist symbols and tattoos? The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish organization which often works with law enforcement, is out to help. The organization on Monday announced that it has launched a major new online database of extremist and racist symbols and tattoos….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While most of the world believed Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker in April 1945, the FBI’s director, J. Edgar Hoover, wasn’t buying it. So, according to the Daily Caller, Hoover called for a mission to track down Hitler in Argentina, according to recently declassified FBI documents. Agents…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Frazier Glenn Cross rarely missed an opportunity to espouse his white-supremacist beliefs. But local and federal authorities are having a hard time finding evidence that the 73-year-old Army veteran and retired truck driver with ties to the KKK ever resorted to violence, the Associated Press reports. That was until Sunday, when he…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Even in death, his legal battle continues. The JTA News Service reports that attorneys for deceased Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk are trying to restore his U.S. citizenship. They’ve asked a U.S. appeals court to restore his status posthumously. Demjanjuk, a former Cleveland area autoworker, died in Germany in March at age 91….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The decades-long legal case against accused Nazi John Demjanjuk won’t go away. The Cleveland Jewish News is reporting that his defense attorneys on Tuesday filed a motion accusing the Justice Department of withholding evidence and fraud. At the key of accusations is a 1985 FBI memo questioning the authenticity of a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Demjanjuk, the suspected Nazi death camp guard, was convicted in Munich on Thursday of helping force roughly 28,000 Jews to death during World War II, the New York Times reported. The 91-year-old retired American autoworker was then sentenced to five years in prison, but was released pending his appeal. His…
