The Slate website reports today (October 28, 2011) that Poland announced yesterday that it is reopening its probe into World War II war crimes at Auschwitz and other Nazi-era death camps.
Poland's goal is to track down and prosecute any living Nazis who worked at the camps.
The new wave of investigations was prompted by the case of Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 91, who was extradited from the U.S. in 2009. A German court found him guilty of more than 28,000 counts of accessory to murder last May, and sentenced him to five years in prison.
A Slate study -- conducted this year -- notes that there are "probably hundreds" of Nazi war criminals still alive and at large.
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