![]() ![]() ![]() Laszlo Csatary Laszlo Csatary followuing his arrest in July 2012.Ĭredit: ATTILA KISBENEDEKAFPGettyImages) As a Hungarian police officer in the city of Kosice (now in Slovakia, but then occupied by Hungary) in 1944, Csatary allegedly organized the deportations of more than 15,000 Jews to Auschwitz.Ī Czechoslovak court convicted Csatary in absentia and sentenced him to death in 1948. Though Demjanjuk was released pending appeal and died in a German nursing home in 2012, the landmark ruling set an important precedent to charge guards who worked at Nazi death camps as accessories to the murders that occurred there, even whenas in Demjanjuks casethere was no evidence linking the defendant to a specific crime. In 2011, after lengthy court proceedings in the United States, Israel and Germany, a German court convicted him of being an accessory to more than 28,000 counts of murder while serving as a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland in 1943. The Hunt Me And War Criminals Files Trial Under House. ![]()
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