German authorities said on Friday they had carried out raids at the homes of elderly former SS soldiers accused of war crimes, including involvement in a 1944 civilian massacre in France.
A 95-year-old former medic at the Auschwitz death camp will go on trial next month on at least 3,681 counts of accessory
to murder, German authorities said Monday.
Investigators can't foresee an end to their work uncovering evidence of Nazi crimes – despite the more than 70 years that have passed since the end of the Second World War.
German prosecutors laid charges Wednesday against a far-right local politician over a tattoo bearing a notorious Nazi concentration camp slogan and a picture of Auschwitz.
A 95-year-old former medic at the Auschwitz death camp is fit to stand trial for at least 3,681 counts of accessory to murder, a German appeals court ruled Tuesday, overturning an earlier verdict.
Prosecutors are investigating a man who appeared at a swimming pool on the outskirts of Berlin with a tattoo depicting a concentration camp and an infamous slogan used by the Nazis across his back.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday rejected what he called German Chancellor Angela Merkel's "moral imperialism" as he outlined his own rival plan to tackle Europe's migrant crisis.
A 91-year-old woman who worked at Auschwitz has been accused of complicity in the murders of at least 260,000 Jews during World War II, the German news agency DPA said Monday.
A former Nazi SS officer known as the
"Bookkeeper of Auschwitz" has appealed a four-year jail sentence handed down
to him last week, his legal team said on Monday.
Prosecutors in Frankfurt are bringing charges against a 92-year-old man who they allege was an SS-member and guard at Auschwitz during the Second World War.
Plaintiffs in the trial of 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Oskar Gröning have criticized state prosecutors after they asked the court to sentence him to three and a half years in jail, saying that the punishment would be too lenient.
News that Google is using the sites of Nazi concentration camps as elements in an "augmented reality" project - an online game linked to the real world - has caused extreme upset to Holocaust survivors' organizations.
A former SS officer known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" and a woman who survived the Nazi death camp delivered wrenching testimony in a courtroom on Wednesday as his historic trial neared a verdict.
The trial against former SS officer Oskar Gröning, dubbed the "accountant of Auschwitz," has been suspended because the 93-year-old defendant has fallen ill, the head judge said on Thursday.
Former SS officer Oskar Gröning, dubbed the "accountant of Auschwitz," asked for "forgiveness" over his role in mass murder at the Nazi death camp, as his trial began on Tuesday.
"We must all remember" former Auschwitz inmate Roman Kent told more than 300 assembled survivors and 50 heads of state and government at a commemoration ceremony at the former Nazi death camp in Poland on Tuesday.
President Joachim Gauck on Tuesday warned Germans against drawing a line under the Holocaust as the Bundestag (parliament) opened a day of commemorations on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Chancellor Angela Merkel joined survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Berlin on Monday to open a series of events dedicated to the end of the Holocaust camp regime 70 years ago.
After the President of the Jewish Council called for compulsory school trips to concentration camp memorials, the Bergen-Belsen site told The Local that they can't take any more groups.
