The destruction of Dresden in 1945 is still deeply rooted in Germany's memory. Even 75 years later, the struggle for neutral interpretation remains, and Neo-Nazis want to turn guilt to innocence.
Organizers of the Berlinale film festival have withdrawn its prestigious Alfred-Bauer prize after revelations that Bauer, its
founding director, was a high-ranking Nazi.
The German government Wednesday handed three works of art stolen during the Nazi occupation of France back to descendants of their original owner, collector and Jewish lawyer Armand Dorville.
New photos have emerged which for the first time show convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk at the Sobibor death camp, a Berlin archive confirmed Monday, although he always denied ever being there.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said acknowledging Nazi crimes was part of Germany's national identity in a
message aimed at far right calls for a shift away from a culture of remembrance.
Angela Merkel will visit the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Friday for the first time in her 14 years as chancellor, as Germany grapples with a resurgence of anti-Semitism.
A museum slammed US e-commerce giant Amazon for selling Christmas ornaments with images of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, calling them inappropriate.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay her first visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau next Friday, her spokeswoman said, ahead of the 75th anniversary commemorations for the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
The German army on Wednesday apologized for posting a photo on Instagram of a military uniform complete with two Iron
Crosses bearing the Nazi swastika and appearing to celebrate it as "retro".
Around 7,000 people marched in the German city of Hanover on Saturday to counter a gathering of around 120 far-right nationalists called to denounce media coverage of neo-nazi groups.
Hundreds of thousands of documents on Nazi crimes with information on some 10 million people were made accessible online
on Tuesday, the Germany-based International Center on Nazi Prosecution said.
A former SS guard, 93, said he was sorry for his actions as he went on trial in Hamburg on Thursday for complicity in the
murder of more than 5,000 people at a Nazi concentration camp during World War
II.
German prosecutors said Wednesday they have filed charges against a former SS soldier for incitement and disparaging the memory of Nazi victims, after the 96-year-old made inflammatory remarks in an interview broadcast on television.
Kazimierz Albin, the last survivor of the
first convoy of prisoners sent by the Nazis to the Auschwitz death camp has
died at the age of 96, the camp museum said on Tuesday.
More than 300 tiny pieces of human tissue from political prisoners executed by the Nazis and dissected for research were buried Monday at a Berlin cemetery, more than 70 years after World War II ended.
More than seven decades after the end of World War II, the remains of political prisoners executed by the Nazis and dissected for research will be given a proper burial in Berlin.
A recently uncovered signature in a guestbook has shed new light on a Nazi's visit to Jerusalem in 1933, and Israel's National Library is highlighting the find for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take down two paintings by Emil Nolde from her office walls has sparked a heated German debate as an exhibition on the Expressionist painter and his links to the Nazis opened in Berlin.
