City authorities have voted to name Stuttgart's airport after former mayor Manfred Rommel, prompting fears foreigners might confuse the name with his father, the famous Third Reich general.
A German furniture store has apologized after selling coffee mugs with a picture of Adolf Hitler printed on them. The motif of the Nazi dictator was mistakenly included by a designer in China. They could now go in a museum.
President Joachim Gauck begged forgiveness for Nazi war crimes at the end of his visit to Greece on Friday, in one of the clearest appeals to victims' families ever uttered by a German head of state.
Police have arrested three suspected former SS guards of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in a series of raids in homes across Germany, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Germany will double funding for efforts to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners and may invite Jewish representatives to join a mediation body, the government said on Wednesday.
The hundreds of private letters belonging to Heinrich Himmler, which are being published by a newspaper this week, mix domestic concerns with Nazi politics. In one his 12-year-old daughter warns him about the invasion of Russia.
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.
Israel unveiled Friday a memorial in Tel Aviv to remember the gay and lesbian victims of Nazi persecution, in a ceremony attended by Germany's ambassador.
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.
German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former soldier over the Nazis' worst atrocity on French soil, the 1944 massacre in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, a court said Wednesday.
A German court on Friday found a 94-year-old alleged former guard at Nazi death camp Auschwitz unfit to stand trial and released him from his pre-trial detention.
German authorities on Thursday published more than 100 additional works from the likes of Picasso, Cezanne and Degas believed to have been looted by the Nazis.
Germany has put 54 more paintings and drawings of priceless artworks stolen by the Nazis online including works by Edvard Munch, Max Liebermann and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, public prosecutors announced on Thursday.
Authorities said on Tuesday that they would order the return of several paintings to recluse Cornelius Gurlitt who is accused of hoarding hundreds of priceless artworks stolen by the Nazis.
Officials investigating the discovery of hundreds of artworks found in a Munich flat are to publish the names of all 590 paintings thought to have been seized by the Nazis.
Who is the reclusive 80-year-old behind the huge trove of Nazi-confiscated art found in a Munich flat? The Local takes a closer look at Cornelius Gurlitt as our German of the week.
A top neo-Nazi politician appeared in a Berlin court on Wednesday facing incitement charges after police found CDs with racist music on, in his military shop. He claimed he never knew they were there.
UPDATE: The German government said on Monday it plans to speed up research into the rightful ownership of recently unearthed artworks looted by the Nazis, amid mounting calls for a full online list.
Haunting present-day photos of Nazi German death camp survivors from around the world went on display on Friday, in a Warsaw exhibition born out of a sense of urgency.
Previously unknown masterpieces by modernist painters Marc Chagall and Otto Dix are among a vast trove of works believed stolen by the Nazis and uncovered in a Munich flat, an art historian said Tuesday.
The Argentine grandson of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke wants to change his last name, just weeks after the death of his grandfather sparked turmoil when various countries refused his body.
Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke will be buried in a secret location in Italy, his lawyer said on Saturday, following a long legal dispute after the former SS officer's death in Rome last week.
An Italian court on Friday handed a life sentence in absentia to a former German army corporal for the wartime massacre of 117 Italian officers on the Greek island of Cephalonia that inspired novel and Hollywood movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
