After completing their investigation, Norwegian police still have no idea how a iron gate stolen from the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau in Germany two years ago ended up in the countryside near a small village some 20km outside of Bergen.
A German court Thursday threw out a challenge to the will of collector Cornelius Gurlitt, clearing the way for a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard found in his home to go to a Swiss museum.
Two valuable paintings of former Dutch masters, despoiled by the Nazis in the late 1930s, were returned to the beneficiaries of a German Jewish art dealer exiled to Canada, the Max-Stern Foundation said on Monday.
Where exactly the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' is remains unknown. Many theories have been advanced, but none have discovered the treasure that enchanted Peter the Great of Russia 300 years ago.
A new study presented on Monday revealed that more than half of the leadership of the West German Justice Ministry were former members of the Nazi party, including dozens of former paramilitary SA members.
On Thursday, German president Joachim Gauck spoke in Kiev 75 years after the Nazis slaughtered 33,771 Jews during one of the worst single massacres of the Holocaust.
German populist party AfD was caught in a new storm Thursday after it emerged that a recently elected Berlin deputy had called refugees "disgusting worms" while another key member reportedly sold Nazi paraphernalia.
Germany has presented a wave of recent trials of elderly former Auschwitz personnel as an 11th-hour bid for long-delayed justice, but the latest proceedings have provoked a strong backlash.
A landlord in Augsburg, Bavaria faces up to three years behind bars after police found four bottles of so-called Führer Wine during a search of his pub.
German intellectual Ernt Nolte became controversial in the 1980s when he triggered one of the most explosive historical debates of post World War II Germany.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pledged Tuesday to do "whatever is necessary" - including taking legal action - to get Germany to pay damages for the wartime atrocities of Nazi troops.
Massages, moonlight strolls and mass murder: the recent discovery of Heinrich Himmler's personal wartime diary gives a new look into the notorious Nazi's daily life.
A German court is expected to issue a verdict on Friday in the case of a 94-year-old former SS guard at Auschwitz, in what is likely to be one of the last trials of its kind.
A retired American journalist recently visited his son in Germany. A trip to Nuremberg in Bavaria left him asking if the US is seeing a second ‘Triumph of the Will’.
The Auschwitz museum said on Tuesday it has recovered 16,000 long-lost items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp, decades after they were stored away and forgotten by Poland's former communist regime.
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.
20 years ago today, on May 3rd 1996, the first Stolpersteine - brass plaques laid in the street to remember Holocaust victims - were laid in Berlin. They have now spread all across Europe.
Some may say it's too little too late. But 71 years after the end of the Second World War a Bavarian town is taking a defiant stance against the Nazis - by revoking Hitler’s honourary citizenship.
