FSWC Reports:
From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
Germany's highest criminal court has ruled that the country has jurisdiction over the case
of a retired Minnesota carpenter that an Associated Press investigation exposed as a former commander in a Nazi SS-led unit.
The Federal Court of
Justice said in its ruling published Thursday that 95-year-old Michael
Karkoc's service as a commander in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense
Legion made him the "holder of a German office." This gives Germany the
legal right to prosecute him even though he is not German, his alleged
crimes were against non-Germans and they were not committed on German
soil.
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