Germany on Tuesday took in a 95-year-old former guard at a Nazi labour camp where more than 6,000 people were killed, after he was stripped of his US citizenship.
Heiko Maas (SPD) became the first German Foreign Minister in 26 years to visit the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday ahead of a meeting with his Polish counterpart.
Computer and video games can include swastikas and other Nazi symbols, a German industry body said Thursday, after a heated debate over the "Wolfenstein" franchise in which gamers battle Third Reich forces.
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.
Germany's jailed "Nazi grandma" Ursula Haverbeck, 89, on Friday lost a challenge before the country's highest court, which reaffirmed that constitutional free speech guarantees do not cover Holocaust denial.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) are not knowing for shying away from inflammatory statements about Germany's Nazi past. But when a party youth leader called a man who tried to kill Hitler a traitor, he went too far even for them.
A Berlin museum on Monday said it had formally
restituted a 15th century religious wooden sculpture to the heirs of former
owners, a Jewish couple who fled the Nazi regime.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday condemned as "shameful" remarks by a leader of the far-righ Alternative for Germany (AfD) party likening the Nazi era to a "speck of bird shit" in the country's long history.
Tucked away in the picturesque German city of Ludwigsburg, a tiny team of investigators tracks the last
surviving Nazi war criminals across the globe and through the better part of a century, in an urgent race against time.
Documents from the post-war Auschwitz trial have been classed part of the UNESCO "Memory of the World Register", underlining their significance as "common heritage of humanity", Germany's foreign minister said Wednesday.
In the early days of the Bundesrepublik, a party arose that took on one of Hitler’s favourite generals as its figurehead. It briefly appeared to pose a threat to the fragile new democracy.
Polish victims of World War II should be able to claim €440 billion from Germany in World War II damages, the head of a parliamentary commission said Thursday.
"Even before the Anschluss, Austrians had the Nazi symbol hidden under their lapels," says Marko Feingold, the oldest living Austrian survivor of the Holocaust.
It is almost exactly 80 years since Hitler’s Wehrmacht marched into Austria. But while the dictator was after Austrian gold, he didn’t immediately intend to annex the country of his birth, a historian in Vienna claims.
Monday marks 75 years since the Nazi genocide against Sinti and Roma started. These communities struggled for decades for official recognition of that crime and still live with daily prejudice.
Thursday marks three quarters of a century since three members of the White Rose resistance group were executed by the Nazis. The young students showed bravery few others in Germany were capable of.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of rising anti-Semitism in her country on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, calling the need to protect Jewish buildings "shameful".
The Nazis stole thousands of artworks from Jewish families during World War 2 and the restitution of these pieces has been a slow process involving legal battles, complex searches and some stunning finds.
German prosecutors on Friday charged a 96-year-old former SS guard at a Nazi death camp with complicity in the murder of detainees, in one of the last criminal cases linked to the Holocaust.
Israel's vaunted Mossad missed at least two chances to capture Nazi fugitive Dr Josef Mengele, who sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their death at Auschwitz, a former agent said Tuesday.
Convicted Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, who served jail time for inciting racial hatred, has died in Germany at the age of 78, local media reported on Monday.
Eight years after the fall of the Nazi regime, Poland decided to forego further reparations from Germany. But now there are renewed calls for those reparations to be paid.
