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Arrested 'Auschwitz guard': I was just a cook

National: 7 May 13
German authorities arrested Monday a 93-year-old alleged former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on charges of complicity in the mass murder of prisoners. He claims he was only a cook. READ »

Search for Nazi death camp guards widens

National: 9 Apr 13
Germany plans to broaden its investigation into former Nazi death camp guards from Auschwitz to those who served in other concentration camps, according to a top official. READ »

50 Auschwitz guards face investigation

National: 7 Apr 13
Germany will open an investigation into some 50 Nazi guards at the former Auschwitz death camp for complicity in murder, media reports said over the weekend. READ »

Outrage over Heidi Klum 'hot as Holocaust' gibe

Society: 1 Mar 13
An off-colour joke by US comedienne Joan Rivers suggesting German model Heidi Klum was as "hot" as a Nazi shoving Jews into a death camp oven has prompted international outrage. READ »

Merkel: Holocaust guilt is 'everlasting'

National: 27 Jan 13
Germany has "an everlasting responsibility" for the crimes committed by the Nazis, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday, just days ahead of the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's takeover of power. READ »

'Some Germans want a second Holocaust'

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jan 13
Few writers have stung Germany's conscience more than Henryk Broder, The Local's German of the week. The prickly polemicist has sparked controversy by encouraging a top journalist be included in a top list of anti-Semites. READ »

The Local's top ten sports stories of 2012

Lifestyle: 27 Dec 12
It was a bumper year for European sports fans, with the London Olympics and the Euro 2012 football championship - but it wasn't always much fun for Germany's athletes. The Local looks back at the year's sporting highs and lows. READ »

Merkel to unveil Roma memorial this week

National: 22 Oct 12
Chancellor Angela Merkel will inaugurate a memorial to Roma and Sinti people murdered the Nazis on Wednesday, as Europe's largest minority grapples with ongoing discrimination. READ »

Paralympics founder's dreams come true

Sport: 28 Aug 12
When German-born Eva Loeffler helped her father organise a sports tournament for wounded World War II soldiers in 1948, she had no idea the contest would grow into the Paralympic Games. READ »

New Nazi cases on 'Demjanjuk principle'

National: 20 Aug 12
An 87-year-old former watchman at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp could face charges of helping to gas to death at least 344,000 people – on the same legal premise as the conviction of former camp guard John Demjanjuk. READ »

Sinti Auschwitz victim's widow denied pension

Society: 24 Jul 12
An Auschwitz victim’s widow has been denied a pension after authorities questioned medical reports from more than 40 years ago which said his ill-health was caused by the two years in Nazi camps. READ »

Hitler ordered his Jewish commander spared

National: 8 Jul 12
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered a former Jewish officer in his unit in World War I spared from persecution or deportation, at least for a time, according to a German Jewish publication. READ »

German team hits back at Auschwitz visit criticism

National: 6 Jun 12
The Germany football team on Tuesday hit back at criticism from senior Jewish leader Dieter Graumann over the handling of their recent visit to former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. READ »

Jewish leader slams Auschwitz visit

National: 4 Jun 12
The president of Germany's Council of Jews has accused the German Football Association (DFB) of "colossal insensitivity" for only sending three players to take part in Friday's Auschwitz visit. READ »

Football delegation visits Auschwitz

Society: 1 Jun 12
Germany captain Philipp Lahm and team-mates on Friday honoured Holocaust victims in an emotionally-charged visit to the site of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. READ »

Learning to teach Berlin's Holocaust lessons

Education: 19 Apr 12
A group of British teachers were in Berlin recently to gain new ideas for teaching children about the Holocaust. Andrew Pendlebury, a British teacher who was on the trip, wrote for The Local about his experience. READ »

German footballers to visit Auschwitz

National: 28 Mar 12
A German delegation will visit the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz before the Euro 2012 tournament, the head of the country's football federation (DFB) Wolfgang Niersbach has told a Jewish newspaper. READ »

Anne Frank possessions head 'home' to Frankfurt

Society: 29 Feb 12
A collection of Anne Frank’s possessions is being sent to Frankfurt, where she was born and from where her family fled the Nazis. The city's Jewish Museum will even be expanded to include a special wing to contain the items. READ »

Singer praised neo-Nazi immigrant murders

National: 21 Feb 12
German prosecutors said Tuesday they had charged the lead singer of a suspected neo-Nazi band who wrote a song about a series of racist murders thought to have been carried out by far-right extremists. READ »

Jolie: Afghanistan may be subject for next film

National: 11 Feb 12
Angelina Jolie says it was only natural that her directorial debut should tackle some of the toughest issues facing humanity and after wartime Bosnia, Afghanistan is likely to be her next subject. READ »

Germans confront latent anti-Semitism

National: 27 Jan 12
As Germany commemorates the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on Friday, Miriam Widman explores just how widespread anti-Semitism continues to be nearly 70 years after the Holocaust. READ »

Germans 'stole' Auschwitz personnel files

National: 17 Jan 12
Polish authorities are hunting two Germans who are said to have dug up three crates of documents from the Auschwitz death camp and made off with them rather than handing them in. READ »

Notorious Nazi's diaries to be auctioned

National: 19 Jul 11
A US auction house has announced it will put under the hammer the journals of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the so-called "Angel of Death" who decided life or death and directed gruesome medical experiments in concentration camps. READ »

SS man who arrested Anne Frank worked for BND after the war

National: 10 Apr 11
The SS officer responsible for the arrest of Anne Frank was one of many Nazis employed by Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) foreign intelligence agency after World War II, Focus reported on Saturday. READ »

Kafka's letters bought by German archive

Society: 4 Apr 11
More than 100 letters that the great German-language author Franz Kafka wrote to his sister will go on display in Baden-Württemberg after they were bought by the German Literature Archive Marbach. READ »

Roma Holocaust survivor pleads for better treatment in Europe

National: 27 Jan 11
A Roma man was for the guest of honour at official Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations for the first time in Germany on Thursday and made a poignant call for better treatment of his people in Europe. READ »

First woman rabbi since WWII ordained

Society: 4 Nov 10
Germany’s first woman rabbi since World War II was ordained on Thursday in Berlin, marking another milestone in the resurgence of Jewish life in the country that perpetrated the Holocaust. READ »

Reports of Sarrazin's pay-off provoke fury

Politics: 12 Sep 10
Reports that the Bundesbank agreed to increase disgraced board member Thilo Sarrazin’s pension payments by €1,000 a month to accelerate his departure have been greeted with fury and denials. READ »

Persecuted by the Nazis, former Berliners visit their hometown

Society: 3 Jun 10
A programme offering people persecuted by the Nazis a chance to visit their former hometown Berlin is slowly winding down. Julia Lipkins speaks with some of the last survivors. READ »

Berlin exhibition explores Jewish roots of comics

Society: 4 May 10
A major new exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum, argues it was no coincidence that the biggest superheroes including Superman, Spiderman, Batman and the Hulk were all created by Jewish comic artists. READ »

Nazi camp Buchenwald liberated 65 years ago

National: 11 Apr 10
Survivors and dignitaries marked on Sunday 65 years since the US army liberated Buchenwald, one of the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration camps on German soil in World War II. READ »

Peres begins Holocaust remembrance trip

National: 25 Jan 10
Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived in Germany on Monday at the start of a visit set to culminate in a historic speech in parliament to mark the Holocaust. READ »

When the lights go out in Wallywood

Society: 11 Jan 10
Wallywoods, a seminal gallery for Berlin’s avant-garde art scene, is locked in a Stalingrad-esque struggle for survival with intractable municipal officials. Ben Knight slips behind the lines to talk with its curator of chaos. READ »

Foreign collector behind Auschwitz theft

Society: 22 Dec 09
A foreign memorabilia collector ordered last week's theft of the notorious Arbeit macht frei sign from Auschwitz concentration camp, Polish police said Tuesday. READ »

Police recover stolen Auschwitz gate sign

Society: 21 Dec 09
Polish police have recovered the stolen “Arbeit macht frei” sign from the gate of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz and arrested five men over the theft, authorities announced Monday morning. READ »

Police focus on neo-Nazis and collectors in Auschwitz case

National: 20 Dec 09
Polish police revealed on Sunday they still had no idea who stole the infamous “Arbeit macht frei” sign from the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp, despite their having increased the reward to about €28,000. READ »

Notorious Auschwitz entry gate stolen

National: 18 Dec 09
Thieves have stolen the notorious “Arbeit macht frei” entrance gate to the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, a spokesperson at the camp memorial confirmed on Friday. READ »

Stretcher-bound Nazi guard Demjanjuk tried

National: 30 Nov 09
Medical staff brought 89-year-old John Demjanjuk into a Munich court on a stretcher on Monday to face charges that he herded tens of thousands of Jews to their death in a Nazi gas chamber in World War II. READ »

Jewish leaders urge Germans to remember Nazi pogrom

National: 9 Nov 09
German Jewish leaders urged the country on Monday to remember November 9 as not only the date the Berlin Wall fell, but also as the anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 22 - 28

Lifestyle: 22 Oct 09
This Week's Highlights: A Little Mermaid ballet in Hamburg, Super 8 films in Frankfurt, and Berlin hosts an art show in a historic bathhouse. READ »

Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp museum creates Facebook profile

Science & Technology: 16 Oct 09
The museum of the World War II-era Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp has launched its profile, "Auschwitz Memorial," on the Facebook social networking website, a museum spokesman said this week. READ »

Netanyahu demands action against Iran during 'emotional' Berlin visit

National: 27 Aug 09
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Thursday for "crippling sanctions" against Iran to stop its disputed nuclear work, on a solemn visit to Berlin marked by Holocaust remembrance. READ »

Tarantino's 'kosher porno' thrills Germany

Lifestyle: 21 Aug 09
While US-director Quentin Tarantino’s new Jewish revenge film “Inglourious Basterds” has garnered mixed reviews elsewhere, German critics are exalting the bloody fantasy as a cathartic departure from typical World War II films. READ »

Obama's German visit focused on extremism

Politics: 3 Jun 09
US President Barack Obama will visit Dresden and the former Nazi camp Buchenwald this week during the German leg of a tour underlining the importance of fighting extremism, past and present. READ »

'He was a part of the team at the Sobibor'

National: 15 May 09
The likely trial of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk may be one of the last for crimes committed during World War II. The Local spoke with Prof. Helgard Kramer about what his extradition means for Germany. READ »

Cryptic list of British POWs surfaces near Auschwitz

Society: 6 May 09
A list of 17 names believed to refer to World War II British prisoners of war held by Nazi Germany near its infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp has surfaced in Poland, an Auschwitz museum historian said this week. READ »

Message in a bottle from Auschwitz prisoner found

Society: 28 Apr 09
One of the Auschwitz prisoners who left a message in a bottle found recently near the Nazi death camp has likely been located living in France, camp memorial spokesperson Jarek Mensfelt told The Local on Tuesday. READ »

Auschwitz museum struggling to preserve weathered ruins

Society: 23 Mar 09
Museum authorities at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland are struggling to save the enduring symbol of the Holocaust from the impact of time and the elements. READ »

Nazi sex slave story finally told at camp

Society: 28 Feb 09
A new exhibition at Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrück near Berlin details the fate of women forced to work as sex slaves for fellow prisoners during World War II. READ »

Auschwitz blueprints found in attic go on display in Berlin

National: 18 Feb 09
Original building plans for Nazi death camp Auschwitz are now on display in Berlin after being discovered in an attic in the German capital last November. READ »

Germany questioned over Nazi 'Dr Death'

National: 11 Feb 09
Nazi hunters demanded an explanation from Germany on Wednesday on how "Doctor Death," one of the world's most wanted war criminals, was apparently able to live freely in Egypt for 30 years. READ »

Whereabouts of late Nazi fugitive 'Doctor Death' uncovered

National: 4 Feb 09
Aribert Heim, a notorious Nazi war criminal known as "Doctor Death," reportedly died in Cairo in 1992, public broadcaster ZDF reported on Wednesday. READ »

A German Pope's dangerous dance with Holocaust deniers

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 09
Following the rehabilitation of Holocaust denier Richard Williamson, the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI must not sanction the St. Pius X Society's ideology, argues the German Jewish Council’s Stephan Kramer. READ »

Jewish group boycotts Holocaust ceremony

National: 27 Jan 09
Germany's leading Jewish group on Tuesday boycotted a ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where German President Horst Köhler called for more solidarity with the Jewish community. READ »

Project recounts ordeal of Nazi forced labourers

National: 22 Jan 09
Video testimony of nearly 600 survivors of Nazi forced labour programmes have been posted online for historians and students to better understand their ordeal, organisers said Thursday. READ »

German prosecutors looking to charge 'Ivan the Terrible'

National: 10 Nov 08
A German body investigating Nazi war crimes said Monday it had enough evidence for prosecutors to bring charges against an alleged former death camp guard now living in the United States. READ »

Nazi death camp plans found in Berlin

National: 10 Nov 08
Original building plans from the notorious Nazi death camp Auschwitz have recently been found in a Berlin flat, according to German daily Bild. READ »

Unlimited guarantee promised for all German accounts

Business & Money: 5 Oct 08
The German government has offered an unlimited guarantee for all private bank deposits, in a bid to prevent a panic run on banks in Europe's biggest economy. READ »

Minister invokes Hitler to warn of finance crisis dangers

National: 5 Oct 08
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has warned in a magazine interview that the global financial crisis could have political repercussions, noting that Adolf Hitler rose to power following the 1929 Wall Street crash. READ »

Germany to compensate Budapest Holocaust survivors

National: 6 Aug 08
Germany will pay the first reparations to some 6,500 Holocaust survivors in Budapest, Hungary, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany announced on Wednesday. READ »

Neo-Nazi exhumed to find forbidden swastika flag

National: 31 Jul 08
German officials in Passau have exhumed the corpse of a former Nazi Waffen-SS soldier in order to confiscate a forbidden Third Reich era flag placed over his coffin during his burial last weekend. READ »

Holocaust train exhibition opens in Berlin

Society: 14 Apr 08
A train-based exhibition commemorating the Holocaust deportation of children has arrived in Berlin, following a row with German railway operator Deutsche Bahn. READ »

Deutche Bahn compromises with Holocaust exhibition

Society: 8 Apr 08
The German state railway operator has compromised in the escalating conflict with Holocaust survivor groups, saying Tuesday that a traveling exhibit can stop at an alternative Berlin train station. READ »

Holocaust survivors: German rail restrictions 'undignified'

National: 7 Apr 08
German state railway operator Deutsche Bahn has outraged Holocaust survivor groups by refusing to allow a traveling train exhibition into Berlin's main station. READ »

Merkel's historic Israel visit

National: 14 Mar 08
German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Israel on Sunday for a visit of major historical significance more than 60 years after the end of World War II, writes AFP's Simon Sturdee. READ »

Jewish leader calls German railway boss a 'Nazi'

National: 11 Mar 08
Germany's railway operator Deutsche Bahn threatened on Tuesday to sue a Jewish community leader for calling its chief executive a "Nazi" who would have enthusiastically taken part in the Holocaust. READ »

Munich carnival celebration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

National: 25 Jan 08
Jewish and politicians angered at planning mix up, saying it is offensive to holocaust victims. READ »

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