World War 2
Police have no idea how stolen Dachau camp gate turned up in Norway
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.
Police discover Hitler's long-lost bronze horses
German police on Wednesday recovered two life-sized bronze sculptures of horses worth millions that once stood outside Adolf Hitler's chancellery but vanished in the year the Berlin Wall fell.
Heirs sue Germany over 'stolen' Nazi gold
The heirs of four Jewish art dealers have brought a case against the German government in the USA over the so-called “Guelph treasure”, a €260-million trove they say was confiscated by the Nazis in 1935.
Thieves steal Dachau death camp gate
An iron gate with the infamous sign "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free") at the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau in Bavaria has been stolen, police said on Sunday.
Wind and waves conquer Hitler's Atlantic Wall
Decades of weather and waves have done what World War Two and post-war demolition attempts failed to do - bring the enormous concrete bunkers which formed Hitler's Atlantic Wall to the brink of collapse.
Germany's 'industrial Oskar Schindler' dies
Berthold Beitz, Germany's industrial Oskar Schindler who saved hundreds of Jews from Nazi persecution before managing the heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp, has died aged 99, the company said on Wednesday.