Since the horrific events during the Holocaust, there has still been public protest for justice against Nazi war criminals, and it's still alive today. Here are some photos and stories of those who were under investigation:
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Waiting For Justice
The Holocaust, an intensely organized, systematic genocide, resulted in the brutal massacre of millions during World War II -- and remains a horrific, dark time in world history.
There is still enormous public outcry for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals -- at least for those who are still alive.
We've tracked down the last remaining Nazi war criminals, some are on trial, some are just suspected, others have died while under investigation.
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JOHANN 'HANS' BREYER
Johann "Hans" Breyer, an 89-year-old Philadelphia man, was ordered held without bail Wednesday on a German arrest warrant charging him with aiding and abetting the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children while he was a guard at the Auschwitz death camp.
The retired toolmaker has admitted he served as a guard at Auschwitz during World War II but said he was posted outside the facility and had nothing to do with the killing of some 1.5 million Jews that happened inside the camp.
"I didn't kill anybody, I didn't rape anybody -- and I don't even have a traffic ticket here," he told the Associated Press. "I didn't do anything wrong."
Breyer's attorney, Dennis Boyle, argued in federal court Wednesday that his client is too frail to be detained. But prosecutors said the detention center he's being taken to is equipped to take care of him.
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JOHN DEMJANJUK
John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker, was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name had not yet ended when he died March 17, 2012 at age 91.
Demjanjuk, one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions, was the lowest-ranking person to go on trial for World War II Nazi war crimes to date.
He was charged with being an accessory to the murders of 27,900 people while serving as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Throughout the 35-year-long legal battle, Demjanjuk claimed he was a captured Soviet soldier and held as a Nazi prisoner of war. German prosecutors argued he volunteered to serve in the German SS and was stationed at Sobibor.
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JAKIW PALIJ
Polish-born Jakiw Palij, who migrated to New York City after World War II, was stripped of his American citizenship in July 2009.
Federal prosecutors in the United States accuse him of serving at the Trawniki death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943, when some 6,000 Jews were killed.
He is also charged with serving at nearby secret service training camps.
The 92-year-old claims he never went into any concentration camps, nor took part in any killings, but says he was forced to serve as a guard on a troop base under penalty of death.
"I am not SS. I have nothing to do with SS," he told the NY Post.
There are regular demonstrations in front of Palij's house in Queens, NY. Since being stripped of his U.S. citizenship, Palij has been unable to find a country willing to accept him.
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ADOLF STORMS
Former SS sergeant Adolf Storms lived in Germany unnoticed for almost 60 years before an Austrian university student found his name while researching a Holocaust-related massacre.
The 90-year-old retiree died July 6, 2010 after being charged with 58 counts of murder for the killings near the Austrian village of Deutsch Schuetzen.
Storms was also accused of shooting a Jew who could no longer walk during a forced march in Austria from Deutsch Schuetzen to the village of Hartberg -- a distance of over 35 miles.
German courts were still deciding whether there was enough evidence to bring the case to trial when Storms died.
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Josias Kumpf
After admitting he took part in two massacres as a Nazi concentration camp guard, 83-year-old Josias Kumpf was deported to Austria from his home in Wisconsin in March 2009.
Kumpf admitted that he participated in Aktion Erntefest -- Operation Harvest Festival -- where 42,000 Jews were killed at three Nazi camps in eastern Poland in two days. He also admitted to being an assassin during the mass shootings at the Trawniki Labor Camp, where some 8,000 people were killed in pits.
He died in 2011.
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