People who as children were forced into state care by the former communist East German regime will more easily be able to obtain compensation, Berlin said Wednesday, as it sought to lift barriers to claims for payment.
More than 300 tiny pieces of human tissue from political prisoners executed by the Nazis and dissected for research were buried Monday at a Berlin cemetery, more than 70 years after World War II ended.
More than seven decades after the end of World War II, the remains of political prisoners executed by the Nazis and dissected for research will be given a proper burial in Berlin.
Counselling centres for victims of far-right violence reported an increase in crime in the five eastern German states and Berlin last year, new figures show.
Hitler's Germany was responsible for the Holocaust, not the Nazis, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said
Sunday, as Poland marked 74 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, we looked at how children of Nazis and their victims are sharing their family history to remember the horrors that took place, and stand against those who deny the atrocities happened.
Only days after a young Tunisian drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, the city's biggest hospital has sent relatives of the dead a threatening bill. They also had to wait much longer for official condolences.
Victims of the Berlin Christmas terror attack could be entitled to compensation in the "three-digit millions", a lawyer who is representing some of the injured has said.
The German government says that ten Germans have fallen victim to the terrorist attack in Istanbul on Tuesday, after two succumbed to their injuries in hospital.
Relatives of German victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plan to sue Ukraine and its president for criminal negligence for not closing the country's airspace, a lawyer said Sunday.
An Auschwitz victim’s widow has been denied a pension after authorities questioned medical reports from more than 40 years ago which said his ill-health was caused by the two years in Nazi camps.
