In 1942, before the uprising, the Nazi SS deported about 300, 000 Jews from the ghetto to the Treblinka camp, where they were murdered in gas chambers.
Once owned by a Nazi SS member, this knife is invested with a certain horror a small piece of the most efficient machine of extermination the world has ever seen.
In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, a fanatical Nazi and SS colonel in World War II, was sentenced to death in Jerusalem.
Joerg Haider, until last month its controversial leader, began his career by appealing to the need of many older Austrians - including veterans of the notorious Nazi elite SS regiments - to be recognised as "decent fellows".
"Grass' poems are an attempt to ignite the flame of hatred against the people and the state of Israel and thereby promote the idea he was publicly a part of when he wore the SS Nazi uniforms, " Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai said on Sunday.
They said they had documents proving his Nazi background, including an SS identity card which showed he had been a guard at Sobibor between March and September 1943, and many witness testimonies.
Prosecutors, however, say they have documents which prove his Nazi background, including an SS identity card which shows he was posted to the death camp in Sobibor in 1943 and many witness testimonies.
The exploits are straight out of a Hollywood movie: nighttime parachute drops behind enemy lines before the D-Day invasion in France, shootouts with SS troops, dodging Nazi collaborators, helping hundreds of downed American airmen elude capture.
Legend has it that he even intervened personally to halt a planned Nazi attack on a Jewish ghetto, threatening an SS general.
And Paraguay became a bolt-hole for Nazi war criminals, including for a time the former SS doctor at Auschwitz, Josef Mengele.
To make an analogy, Al Qaeda is the equivalent of the Waffen SS and the Muslim Brotherhood is the equivalent of the Nazi party.
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"Martin Hartmann and other members of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion were indispensable accomplices in the brutal crimes committed in the Nazi concentration camp system, " Eli Rosenbaum, head of the OSI, was quoted by Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz as saying.
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