Germany's justice system was still filled with former Nazis well into the 1970s, as the Cold War coloured efforts to root out fascists, according a damning official inquiry presented Thursday.
Germany has passed new legislation to naturalise some Nazi victims' descendants who had previously been denied citizenship in what it called a symbolic step toward redressing past injustice.
Sophie Scholl, one of the key figures of the Weiße Rose (White Rose) group, would have celebrated her one hundredth birthday on Sunday. Here we take a look at the impact she made at such a young age and the impression she has left on the German history books.
German prosecutors said Wednesday they have closed their case due to lack of evidence against a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard recently deported by the United States.
A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who has been living in the United States was deported Saturday to Germany, the Justice Department said.
A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard has been charged with complicity in 3,518 murders as Germany races to bring surviving Nazi staff to justice, prosecutors told AFP on Monday.
German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, in the first such case in recent years against a female staff member.
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.
German divers who recently fished an Enigma
encryption machine out of the Baltic Sea, used by the Nazis to send coded
messages during World War II, handed their rare find over to a museum for
restoration on Friday.
Germany is planning a return to pre-World War II alphabet tables that existed before the Nazis removed all names with Jewish
associations, local media reported Thursday.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Sunday lashed out at anti-mask protesters comparing themselves to Nazi victims, accusing them of trivialising the Holocaust and "making a mockery" of the courage shown by resistance fighters.
Barbara Brix admired her father, a doctor who passed on his love of history and literature. Until she learned years after his passing that he had been part of a Nazi death squad.
The Berlin film festival, one of Europe's top cinema showcases, released a study Wednesday showing the deep entrenchment of its founding director in the Nazi propaganda apparatus, which he actively covered up.
German car-parts maker Continental
revealed Thursday that it played a key role in the Nazi war effort and used
thousands of slave labourers during World War II.
A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp
guard was handed a suspended sentence of two years in prison on Thursday as a
court in Hamburg found him guilty of complicity in WWII atrocities.
A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp
guard has been charged with war crimes during the Holocaust in what could be
one of the last cases of its kind, a German court said Monday.
German prosecutors on Monday demanded three
years in jail for a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who they said was "without a doubt" complicit in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II.
The prosecution's closing arguments will be heard on Monday in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas pledged on Sunday to fight Holocaust denial as a trio of former Nazi concentration camps mark the 75th anniversary of their liberation in the shadow of the
coronavirus pandemic.
Germany held a minute's silence on Wednesday
to mark 75 years since the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp was
liberated, after planned commemorations were cancelled because of the
coronavirus pandemic.
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.
No-one on board the Hindenburg for its first flight on March 4th, 1936 could have imagined the tragedy that would befall the airship just a year after that maiden voyage.
