This photo taken taken through a metal fence on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in Oswiecim, Poland, shows a guard's tower of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz that the Nazis operated in occupied Poland... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo taken taken through a metal fence on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in Oswiecim, Poland, shows a guard's tower of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz that the Nazis operated in occupied Poland during World War II. Poland's historians have put online what they say is the most complete list... (Associated Press) 
 
 WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Historians in Poland have put online what they say is the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the Auschwitz concentration camp in hopes some of them can still be brought to justice. 
 
 The state-run Institute of National Remembrance said Monday that the SS KL Auschwitz Garrison list is based on data from archives in Poland, Germany, Austria, the United States and, to a limited extent, Russia, where archives remain mostly inaccessible. 
 
 The work of historian Aleksander Lasik, the institute and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, it has more than 8,500 entries. It is based on a list that Lasik built during more than 30 years of archival research. 
 
 "The world justice system has failed and I'm doing what a historian should do: expose the responsible individuals as war criminals," Lasik said. 
 
 Up to 200 former guards at the German death camp could still be living, he said. 
 
 Historians estimate that some 12 percent of Auschwitz guards were tried by courts in Poland and elsewhere. 
 
 Lasik's full database includes more than 25,000 names of guards from various German-run camps. The list is not complete and his search continues, Lasik told The Associated Press. 
 
 The online list of Auschwitz guards and commanders is written in Polish, English and German. Most entries include the date and place of birth, nationality, education, military service and party affiliation. Some have a photo attached. Judicial documents are included when the person stood trial in Poland. 
 
 For example, the entry for Rudolf Hoess, the camp's commander from 1940-43, has a photocopy of the death sentence he was handed by a court in Krakow, Poland, in 1947. 
 
 The dates of service at Auschwitz are being verified pending publication. 
 
 Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff said the publication of the names is "very important and the right thing to do" and can have "practical implications" if Nazi crime investigators in Germany were unaware of some of the names. 
 
 It is estimated that from 1940-45, Nazi Germans killed some 1.1 million people in the death camp that they operated in occupied Poland. 
 
 Some 1 million of the victims were European Jews, up to 75,000 were Poles, some 21,000 were Roma and approximately 15,000 were Soviet prisoners of war. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. 
 
 German investigators said Tuesday they have identified eight suspected Nazi war criminals who worked at the former Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, Poland. 
 
 “Following our investigations, we have identified four men and four women,” Jens Rommel, the head of the central office for Nazi crime investigations in Ludwigsburg, Germany told NBC News. 
 
 Items belonging to former prisoners at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp in Poland were found during an archaeological excavation earlier this year. ADAM WARZAWA / EPA 
 
 Initial legal inquiries into “accessory to murder in several thousand cases” were forwarded to prosecutors’ offices across Germany, Rommel said. Local prosecutors will now need to assess whether there is enough evidence against the eight suspects to bring charges. 
 
 Between June and August 1944, thousands of people were killed by the Nazis in the gas chambers and with neck shots at the Stutthof camp, Rommel explained. 
 
 The male suspects had worked as guards at the Stutthof camp, while the women had been employed as typists or phone operators, Rommel said. 
 
 He added that all of the suspects were born between 1918 and 1927, meaning they would be in their late 80s or 90s. 
 
 Investigators in Ludwigsburg are continuing their research and investigations for former concentrations camps Auschwitz and Majdanek, while they recently expanded their search to former Nazi concentration camps Bergen-Belsen and Neuengamme. 
 
 In June, a German court convicted 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning of being an accessory to 170,000 counts of murder. 
 
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 The 2011 prosecution of John Demjanjuk, an autoworker who lived in the U.S. for years after the war and was convicted of 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder, was a game-changer for the German legal system. The court's ruling that he could be convicted on his service record alone, triggered a search for dozens of suspected Auschwitz guards who were still believed to be living in Germany. 
 
 Two others are currently on trial in Germany for “accessory to murder” during the Nazi regime.
– Historians in Poland have put online what they say is the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the Auschwitz concentration camp in hopes that some of them can still be brought to justice. The state-run Institute of National Remembrance said Monday that the SS KL Auschwitz Garrison list is based on data from archives in Poland, Germany, Austria, the United States and, to a limited extent, Russia, where archives remain mostly inaccessible. The work of historian Aleksander Lasik, the institute, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, it has more than 8,500 entries. Most include the date and place of birth, nationality, education, military service, and party affiliation. Some have a photo attached. Judicial documents are included when the person stood trial in Poland. It is based on a list that Lasik built during more than 30 years of archival research. "The world justice system has failed and I'm doing what a historian should do: expose the responsible individuals as war criminals," Lasik says. He believes up to 200 former guards at the German death camp could still be living. Historians estimate that some 12% of Auschwitz guards were tried by courts in Poland and elsewhere. Lasik's full database includes more than 25,000 names of guards from various German-run camps. The list is not complete and his search continues, Lasik tells the AP. Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff says the publication of the names is "very important" and can have "practical implications" if Nazi crime investigators in Germany were unaware of some of the names.