Auschwitz trial on hold as defendant falls ill
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.
Germans fathered by Allied soldiers speak out
A quarter of a million Germans were fathered by Allied soldiers after the Second World War. Many have spent their lives not knowing their fathers and stigmatized by their own society.
Merkel joins Holocaust survivors to mark Dachau liberation
German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined survivors of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau on Sunday for a solemn ceremony to mark 70 years since it was liberated by US forces.
Germany's surrender order under the hammer
Marooned on a naval base in northwest Germany, pinned down by advancing Allied forces and Adolf Hitler dead, the last leader of the Third Reich hammered out the surrender order.
Second World War still key to German identity
Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, Germans still feel that they deal with its legacy in everyday life, a survey published on Tuesday shows.