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.
After banning them in 2004, Munich is poised to allow the small brass Holocaust memorial plaques known as 'Stolpersteine' to be placed on the streets, despite a Jewish community leader's continued opposition.
Police in Saxony were on Tuesday searching for thieves who stole a bulldozer from a building site and crashed through a former concentration camp memorial site, causing thousands of euros worth of damage.
A Nazi war criminal who topped most wanted lists over the Holocaust is "almost certain" to have died in Syria four years
ago, a Nazi-hunting group said Monday.
Police in Bavaria are investigating their first leads for the theft of the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" iron gate from the Dachau concentration camp, a spokesman said on Monday.
A 93-year old man from Lower Saxony will stand trial for 300,000 counts of accessory to murder at the Auschwitz death camp while a member of the Waffen-SS.
A 24-metre blue glass wall in Berlin has been unveiled to commemorate the systematic murder of up to 300,000 mentally ill and disabled people under Adolf Hitler.
Benjamin Traub, a sad-eyed German boy born in 1914, was considered a bright child by his parents and called gifted by his teachers. His life would end in a Nazi gas chamber.
More than 80 percent of the 2,711 concrete blocks in Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe have been damaged. Dozens have been reinforced with steel and one is missing, the memorial's foundation announced on Thursday.
The day of remembrance on Monday for victims of National Socialism has sparked a debate in Germany about how to best remember those killed by the Nazis.
Almost 70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the siege of Leningrad, German politicians remembered the victims of National Socialism on Monday.
An employee of the museum at a former Nazi German death camp in Poland has been charged with anti-Semitism along with five other men, police said on Saturday.
The guillotine used to execute Nazi resistance siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl in 1943 appears to have been found in southern Germany after being thought lost for decades, a museum said Friday.
An online video showing drunken youths urinating on Berlin's world famous Holocaust Memorial on New Year’s Eve has prompted city police to consider tightening security at the site.
A New York court has ordered that a 3,000-year-old gold tablet must be returned to the Berlin museum which lost
possession of it during World War II, drawing a line under a protracted legal saga over the precious artifact.
A German court began hearing an appeal by a British bishop on Monday who was convicted in a high-profile case for denying key facts about the Holocaust.
Holocaust-denier David Irving said on Wednesday he would push ahead with his controversial trip to Germany, despite calls to ban him from every hotel in Berlin. He told The Local he had been “inundated with offers” of accommodation in the city since the German Hotel Association said its members would not allow him to stay.
Nazi hunters have put a €25,000 bounty on the heads of the last surviving perpetrators of the Holocaust - in the hope of bringing of them to justice before they die.
Notorious Holocaust-denier David Irving is planning to visit Berlin in September - but may have to sleep on a friend's a couch, and hold his meeting in a living-room, as hotels in the German capital have united to boycott him.
Germany's finance ministry has increased support for Holocaust survivors, saying on Wednesday it would assign nearly €800 million for some 56,000 people worldwide over the next four years.
A Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" opera has been cancelled in Düsseldorf after realistic death scenes distressed audience members, the opera house said Thursday.
Germany plans to broaden its investigation into former Nazi death camp guards from Auschwitz to those who served in other concentration camps, according to a top official.
