The German memorial at former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald Thursday demanded an end to visitors playing
winter sports at the site, after some were even spotted sledging at its mass graves.
With the coronavirus pandemic wiping clean most public events in Germany, the memorial at the Buchenwald former concentration camp marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation on Saturday in a new way.
Unwanted visits from neo-Nazis are becoming an increasing problem for the memorial centre at the former World War II concentration camp at Buchenwald in eastern Germany, museum director Volkhard Knigge said on Thursday.
A German sausage museum has scrapped controversial plans to move to an annex of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in a decision welcomed by the Jewish community Tuesday.
The head of the foundation running the memorial at the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald said he would confront a German far-right politician with pointed questions when they hold talks Wednesday.
Authorities in Germany are searching for two British men who took a picture of themselves performing a Nazi salute in a torture chamber in Buchenwald concentration camp.
Prosecutors are investigating a man who appeared at a swimming pool on the outskirts of Berlin with a tattoo depicting a concentration camp and an infamous slogan used by the Nazis across his back.
On April 11th 1945, the 6th Armoured Division of the US army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, making its inmates the first on German soil to be freed from the grip of the Nazis.
Police are investigating a football fan who allegedly made the Hitler salute at the former Buchenwald concentration camp in central Germany on Saturday.
Rudolf Brazda, the last known survivor of the Nazi death camps sent there because he was homosexual, has died in France aged 98, officials said on Thursday.
Neo-Nazis have hacked into Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp website, defacing it and redirecting visitors to a revisionist site, the camp's memorial foundation director said late on Wednesday.
The names of many of those killed in the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp have been published online on the 65th anniversary of the camp's liberation. But the work is far from over.
US President Barack Obama on Friday condemned the "ignorant and hateful" rhetoric of those who deny the Holocaust, as he toured a former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald.
US President Barack Obama on Friday started solemn two-day mission of World War II remembrance in the eastern German city of Dresden, where he held talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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.
US President Barack Obama will not visit the German city of Weimar as planned next week due to a “narrow window of time,” a Thuringia state Interior Ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.
