Berlin and Moscow announced on Sunday that Germany had provided €12 million to help Russian World War II veterans and siege survivors, but Moscow said it was not enough.
After completing their investigation, Norwegian police still have no idea how a iron gate stolen from the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau in Germany two years ago ended up in the countryside near a small village some 20km outside of Bergen.
German police on Wednesday recovered two life-sized bronze sculptures of horses worth millions that once stood outside Adolf Hitler's chancellery but vanished in the year the Berlin Wall fell.
The heirs of four Jewish art dealers have brought a case against the German government in the USA over the so-called “Guelph treasure”, a €260-million trove they say was confiscated by the Nazis in 1935.
An iron gate with the infamous sign "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free") at the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau in Bavaria has been stolen, police said on Sunday.
Decades of weather and waves have done what World War Two and post-war demolition attempts failed to do - bring the enormous concrete bunkers which formed Hitler's Atlantic Wall to the brink of collapse.
Berthold Beitz, Germany's industrial Oskar Schindler who saved hundreds of Jews from Nazi persecution before managing the heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp, has died aged 99, the company said on Wednesday.
Dresden is bracing itself for large neo-Nazi gatherings as it marks the anniversary of its destruction by Allied bombing in 1945. Every year a wreath is laid at the Heiderfriedhof, a cemetery where 5,000 victims of the bombings are buried. This year civilians are not the only ones to publicly resist the neo-Nazis. The eastern state of Saxony also wants to tighten the right to assemble.