guards at the auschwitz death camp. three of those men, age 88 to 94 years old were arrested. fall news hour correspondent william brangam reported the story that first aired in early january. >> from the outside it looks like a beautiful old estate. this is no private residence. inside investigators for the german federal government are pouring through decades old records searching for the last remaining nazi war criminals who might have escaped justice. this is part of a much broader national effort underway in germany to wrestle with the legacy of the holocaust. it includes the construction of memorials and museums at a record pace. the revamping of the nation's curriculum so that all german school kids get a fuller understanding of the nazi era. perhaps few are as crucial to this effort as this man. his name is kirk shrimp, and he runs the central office in germany and is still trying to bring former nazis to justice. >> right now only murder is personable. all other crimes have passed the statute of limitations and can no longer be punished. >> 31 years ago shrim was a lo

as they would in the evening after a long day of what they thought was hard work at the laboratory there at auschwitz. but as i learned from colleagues, academics at the institute who gave me permission to republish this photograph, this is well within the view of the chimneys of auschwitz. so, blomo is captured and cooperates with allied intelligence. the first high-ranking member of hitler's inner circumstance whole speaks speaks of acrosstis sterilization and gassing of jews and becomes a key player in the story because he is the first person who cooperated. but at the same time you have colonel harry armstrong, top physician for what was then called the army air force, later the u.s. air force, and armstrong was on a mission in berlin, looking for nazi doctors. he called them german physicians. and for many years the idea, the fiction, was that they were german physicians. really i and others before me have put together the very clear picture of what most of these men were doing during the war. and you'd see them here, this photograph has never been printed before. this is 34 of the top leading p

this is the photo from 1944 you have auschwitz and the gas chamber in addendum over quarter you have the slave labor facility that also produced cyclone me and although ambros's -- ambros was in charge of that facility. while researching the book we know those horrific photographs but nothing disturbed me more than this photograph because of what it says. company sporting club auschwitz. those are two colleagues fencing as they would in the evening after a long day of what they thought was hard work in the laboratory at auschwitz. but as i learned and i was given permission to republish, this was well within the view of the chimney of auschwitz. so he is captured and cooperates with intelligence the first high-ranking member of the inner circle that speaks up of the atrocities in mass sterilization and gassing of jews in becomes the key player because he is the first person who cooperated. at the same time, colonel harry armstrong who is a top position for the army air force and he was on a mission in berlin looking for not see doctors. he called them german physicians and for many y

received attention on oscar night "the lady in number six", at 110 this woman was believed to be the oldest auschwitz civilor. the nazis moved her into a camp that was used for propaganda purposes. alice passed away, but the film got the award for "best short documentary film." >> a lot of journalists want to know, speak to me. before they enter my room, they ask are we allowed to enter her room. so my answer is i never hate. never hate. hate red breeds only hatred. >> we are pleased to bridge back the winning film makers, malcolm clark and producer nick reed, joining us from los angeles. "the lady of number six", is playing theatrically and debuts on netflix. >> you gave a wonderful tribute to alice and talked about her attitude. what made her so remarkable? >> she was - she was a woman who always managed somehow miraculously given what she had gone through, to see the bright side of life. her son died and she managed, through her grief, to be happy that he died without knowing that he was going to die. quickly, without pain and suffering. when that can look at the dark experiences that we human bei

as i learned from the fritz bauer institute, this was well within the view of the chimneys at auschwitz. so blom is captured, and he cooperates with allied intelligence. he's the first high ranking member of hitler's inner circle that speaks of atrocities and gassing of jews. he becomes a key player in this story because he's the first person who cooperated. but at the same time, you have colonel harry armstrong who is a top physician for what was of then called the army air force, later the u.s. air force. and armstrong was on a mission in berlin looking for nazi doctors. he called them german physicians. and for many years the idea, the fiction was that they were german physicians. but really i and others before me have put together the very color picture of -- clear picture of what most of these men were doing during the war. and you see them here, this photograph's never been printed before. this is 34 of the top leading physicians who worked if a classified program, one of the very first programs that was part of operation paperclip inside germany in hiding berg, you know, starting

. >> he was bound for the nazi death camp into auschwitz and jumped from the railcar to freedom. he died this weekend, but the 93-year-old was scheduled to testify today before the maryland house committee, a committee considering legislation that would require the french rail company that reportedly transported 70,000 jews to the camps from doing business in maryland unless they first pay reparations to holocaust survivors and their families. the company is bidding on a contract to provide rail cars to run on metro's proposed purple line. >> but they have to do what is right first. >> the company president says his company has no plans to pay reparations. and that during the war the company operated under the orders of germans in france. >> we are extremely -- we deeply regret what happened then. friend read his testimony today. ,he says that her father captured in 1945, wrote to his death on one of those trains. >> i want justice. i want justice for him, as i said before. i want justice -- >> testimony was to be heard tomorrow in the senate, but that will be rescheduled and res

russians invaded poland if the east and invaded an occupied, auschwitz was part of what the russians carved out. it was quite a thing to listen to that kind of narrative, clear over on the east side of a line we didn't think about enough throughout that course of history, there were people in invading armies that were tonched in september of 1939 go and take a free country of poland and carve it up and a cold-blooded, greedy way to latch on to the property of poland. so the pat certain there. and they're on this together. and they're staring each other down across this line. but it takes us through 1939, into 1940's, when -- into 1940 when norway and greece were occupied along with yugoslavia, then on 10th of may, the nazi panzer divisions rolled through belgium into france. belgium lasted about 18 days when they surrendered, france lasted until about the 22nd of june. paris capitulated and surrendered on june 14rks the plans of france was handed over under nazi control with vichy cooperation as late as june 22 of 1940. now that's -- and then the battle of britain began. that was fou

makes people come out if a sweat because they think they're treading on egg shells or the bones of those lying in auschwitz. so, either which, it's not something that non-jews can engage. with that's not the case here, i hope, i think. here is an opportunity to actually try and say here is a story, come on in. you're welcome to this. >> charlie: we continue this evening with timothy dolan, the archbishop of new york. >> what we really wanted this time was a man who had a good track record of management, governance, administration and jorge mario bergoglio had run one of the largest and complex archdiocese in the world. we wanted a man with honest yand sincerity and a man who was a pro at presenting the timeless truths of the faith in kind of a sparkling new way. that's what we were looking for. that was the job description. we all thought, boy, that's a tall order. but i think, a year later, i think we said bingo. >> charlie: we conclude with ferran adria as one of the world's most renowned and innovative chefs. >> the hardest thing is to get up in the morning, look in the mirror and to be happy. you know.

authorities not to be ninety three year old former ss men to report to be assisted in the mass monitor prisoners arrived at auschwitz were a number of european countries in september nineteen forty four meanwhile in the eight year old female four mile trips to camp guards known as g seven s is also facing similar charges in gemini. it is reported that two seven s often beat up the prisoners while also forcing them into small dark rooms for days as punishment for minor infractions which resulted in some sewing i will be a recipe and well combined world jewish congress president ronald lauder a few said they send a message that justice must be done my math of how late the hour the simon wiesenthal center's lost jobs campaign has also played an important role in pre criminals to justice she said get in argentina's capital when the sitter it's not the end of the st nineteen ninety two bombing of the israeli embassy which killed twenty one people security sirens which would trigger twenty two years ago thought the explosion this entity can smoke the cage and robert balloons were released and skylight. the explosion rippe

the holocaust. >> my father was on that convoy. >> reporter: and he was? >> to auschwitz. >> reporter: it is because this weekend, this man died before being able to testify before the house committee should require french trained company smcf to compensate families for transporting 76,000 jews to nazi death camps. the train company wants to bid on the the contract to build the purple line, and the 16,000 mile link between bethesda and new carrollton. >> this train company transported my great grandparents and grandparents to their deaths in towards their deaths in auschwitz. >> reporter: maryland law says that if you have participated in the holocaust, you have to pay reparations before you can participate in a public-private partnership. the chairman says he understands the anger, but he says that the reparations should be paid by the french government and not the company. >> we were placed under the german laws of war, and anybody who would disobey would be murdered. shot. >> reporter: smcf at this point is one of four companies competing for the purple line contract.

holocaust makes people think they are treading on egg shells of the bones of those lying in auschwitz. here is an- opportunity to try and say, here is a story, come on in. you are welcome to this. it has lots of celebration, lots of music from a lot of grief got a lot of color. we have more than 3 million people watched the first episode. in britain, where we have quarter of a million jews. >> 250,000? >> yes. >> why the dates? is theppose the reason first archaeology, it is a recent dig where the david and goliath showdown is set. that has been next ordinary because there is a 45 -- fortified settlement on the hills of judea which was part of a larger estate. jerusalem was not full of davidian palaces. there was something going on, which now has found a document in archaeology. that was around the 11th century. beautiful,which is was full of all of its -- oliv e pit. it is carbon dated. because it is a term expulsion ofl, the the jews from spain. you do not want to compare it to what happened in the 1930's. he saidalamities -- it is incredibly traumatic. what happened in germany was

in county clare formally opened today providing a day care service for vulnerable and auschwitz hundred people in the surrounding villages that can moderate the kitchen and craft show. people like sixty eight rolled the dough to the maxwell who lives alone and says the service was bad he needed to have her and other older people not feel isolated seconds left on its own line of him. i don't need to be coming here to be on hand outs. create stunning here we are keeping go ahead with the sound of the leads me to keep the stress we meet like minded people may call me and never put on charitable of what's going on around them in each one of the mind can only touch on the screen tv and it's nice to be a little weepy. bought a few lists a rural isolation and really miss our major problems for older people are now almost five hundred pandas and people over sixty five here. almost half of those over seventy five never know. community contact is one solution for older people must seek its people asking for help to be honest getting kids can use his mobilizing themselves had to ask for help and open their own

the more notorious camps. >> it was not a death camp. it was a feeder camp for auschwitz. eryone who went there had an expect to be sent down the track across the border into poland where they would be exterminated. but it was an extraordinary collector of famous jews. jews who were nobel prize winners, society leaders, politicians, leading scientists they were collected for propaganda purposes. they were asked to write letters to their relatives and friends and the rest of the world to tell the world that they were okay. they were surviving, and they were--it wasn't as bad as they said the rumors was. it was actually as bad, and it was pretty much worse than you could imagine. >> what they mr. able to do in living inside their minds in horrible condition set them apart and this ability to live in your mind, feel things and see things is incredible. people talked about how when they went to a concert it allowed them to be where else and it recharged their spirits. it's absolutely remarkable and chose the brain a--shows the brs this incredible mechanism, and alice was able t

to recoup, and they were told that the policies that had lapsed because the premiums were not there while people were in auschwitz and this was only discovered again by us in the late 1990s and we created something called the international commission of the holocaust insurance claims under former secretary of state. and in a consensual way after we got everyone together there were 19,000 policies paid over $4 million. so, the dimensions of this were so peeling back the layers of an onion. one thing led to another. slave labor ended up getting almost $8 billion in compensation from german private companies and the government ended the slave labor and by the way the majority of the poor for the non- jewish force leaders ended up 1.5 million people got compensation as a result of that. so, it was a very extensive effort of which again it was a piece that only a piece. going back before and during world war ii can you tell us what they took in terms of art, who did the taking and what did they do with what they took. >> the common phrase that gives you an idea of the active opportunistic leading like a power outage a

auschwitz among everything else was cameras. so there was no way to visually witness what was happening. in fact by the end of the war a lot of it was being destroyed as evidence by the retreating germans. the only visual witness tended to be people drawing usually at great personal risk where sometimes the drawings would survive and they wouldn't or they would be buried and found later. and those provided a way to visualize the oxymoron of life inside a death camp. >> coming up. i'll talk to art spiegelman in >> twenty five years ago, pan am flight 103 exploded in the skys above lockerbie. only one man was convicted of the attack >> the major difficulty for the prosecution, that there was no evidence... >> now a three year al jazeera investigation, reveals a very different story about who was responsible >> they refuse to look into this... >> so many people at such a high level had a stake in al megrahi's guilt. lockerbie: what really happened? on al jazeera america >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an

auschwitz among everything else was cameras. so there was no way to visually witness what was happening. in fact by the end of the war a lot of it was being destroyed as evidence by the retreating germans. the only visual witness tended to be people drawing usually at great personal risk where sometimes the drawings would survive and they wouldn't or they would be buried and found later. and those provided a way to visualize the oxymoron of life inside a death camp. >> coming up. i'll talk to art spiegelman in >> these protestors have decided that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. >> as tensions rise in ukraine, al jazeera america is there. >> russian ships only a few hundred feet off the coast... >> with reporters on the ground >> if they give the order to start shooting, they will... >> asking the tough questions... >> why send the troops in now? >> getting you the facts... >> is it possible that crimea is just lost? >> i'm afraid that may be the

that colonel pusn was saying the munich and the -- were legal, and if you dare have ge, sp momers'llent nor e dokng there were no death chambers at auschwitzthat is exactly what we have in russia now. ndeur oresasions in the last six montcall , mainstream russian media, not -- mainstream russian media e dokng that it was done. that is ed theocialent to the holocaust. that makes me really scared. >> good answer. and i want to ask one more d theestion and then open it upo everyone else, which is, what way do you thinic the historical truth-telling has had in prctan feing russians or inducig ordinary folks to yearn for a way of rec momturing their dieatness somehow? you had obviously a lot of truth-telling which, in a sense, destroexad the idea of the communist revolution, the boifhevik revolution as a good thing i'm tacked stalin and leni sa the reachhowuck and so nderm,fina ad a sensor did you not, of -- a sense, did you not, of a real drift among russians who e dw themselves suddenly as without an honorable and noble history? how does that figure in all of this? only okay. in the book idon- i n twd to -- okay. heard of deitrick bon -- who

authorities are in moscow to do just that so what happens after they officially ask for auschwitz incorporated well the russian president will have to have consultations and inform the parliament the federation council as well as the government after that they'll have to check with the russian constitutional court if the agreement follows the constitution next we know that the parliament will review the region status within russia and then the constitution will be amended if need be to accommodate the new region so this is how the procedure goes and we're expecting this to start in the next few days. details of that to decrease from russia's president now of course let's take a more detailed look at the outcome of the referendum in crimea over ninety six percent said they wanted crimea to be part of russia less than three percent favor staying with ukraine whose party's coup government is not recognized by the local authorities and the remaining one percent of ballots were discounted now they're here and i'm so when i'm president to turn out of more than eighty three percent and international observers

auschwitz among everything else was cameras. so there was no way to visually witness what was happening. in fact by the end of the war a lot of it was being destroyed as evidence by the retreating germans. the only visual witness tended to be people drawing usually at great personal risk where sometimes the drawings would survive and they wouldn't or they would be buried and found later. and those provided a way to visualize the oxymoron of life inside a death camp. >> coming up. i'll talk to art spiegelman in >> no doubt about it, innovation changes our lives. opening doors ... opening possibilities. taking the impossible from lab ... to life. on techknow, our scientists bring you a sneak-peak of the future, and take you behind the scenes at our evolving world. techknow - ideas, invention, life. on al jazeera america >> welcome back to "talk to al jazeera." i'm john siegenthaler and my guest today is art spiegelman the author of "maus." you have had an incredible career but part of that career is work being for the new yorker. had you ever done a magazine cover before? >> i think i did. new yorker cov