war

Soviet soldier in famous Reichstag photo dies

One of three Red Army soldiers in a famed 1945 photograph that depicts the Soviet flag being lifted over Berlin's <i>Reichstag</i> has died at age 93, Russian officials said on Wednesday.

ww2

Those convicted of treason to Nazi state set to be cleared

The German parliament is set to vote on Tuesday to lift Nazi-era convictions of so-called wartime traitors whose names, 70 years after the fighting, have still not been cleared.

Film

Copy of original 'Schindler's list' found in Australian library

An Australian library has discovered it has a carbon copy of the original complete “Schindler’s List,” detailing 801 of the more than 1,000 Jews saved by Oskar Schindler from Nazi extermination, the <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i> reported on Monday.

Crime

Doctors set to examine Nazi-era crimes

The president of the German Doctors’ Association, Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe, has opened the door to the country’s medics to examine their role in the Third Reich.