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Poland, Germany probe Nazi-led unit commander
Prosecutors in Poland and Germany said Tuesday they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander of a Nazi-led unit to see if they have ...
Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in US
The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to ...
Nazi unit leader's US life prompts shock, denial
The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in the U.S. for the past six decades came as a shock to people ...
AP IMPACT: Commander of Nazi-led unit lives in US
A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into ...
Israeli PM warns of another Holocaust from Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his two-day visit to Poland, which Germany's Nazis occupied during World War II and where they ...
Israel's PM in Poland for talks, Auschwitz visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has started a two-day visit to Poland that is steeped in symbolism, focusing on the Jewish people's painful ...
Poland's Boeing 787s to resume flights on Saturday
Poland's LOT airline said Wednesday its grounded Boeing 787 planes will resume flying on Saturday, four days earlier than planned. The world's fleet ...
Leader's daughter: Fear behind Polish martial law
The daughter of Poland's last communist leader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, says her father's innate pessimism and fear dictated his decision to impose ...
Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93
Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi ...
Polish walkway named for woman who saved Jews
Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a ...
Russia's foreign min defends arms sales to Syria
Russia's foreign minister has defended his country's sales of antiaircraft systems to Syria, insisting they are not banned by international law.
Huge chocolate white eagle marks Poland's holiday
A giant white eagle made of chocolate has been placed in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw to mark democratic Poland's young national holiday
Polish airline to resume flying Boeing 787s June 5
Poland's national airline, LOT, says it is resuming flights on its two grounded Boeing 787s on June 5 and is selling tickets for the flights. LOT said ...
Poland's Boeing 787s to resume flight in June
Polish national airline LOT said Tuesday its Boeing 787s, which had been grounded for months due to battery problems, will resume flying in June and ...
US philanthropist savors opening of Jewish museum
As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time ...
Warsaw marks 70 years since uprising in ghetto
Sirens wailed and church bells tolled in Warsaw as largely Roman Catholic Poland paid homage Friday to the Jewish fighters who rose up 70 years ago ...
2 ex-officers in Poland get suspended prison terms
A Polish court has handed suspended prison terms to two former army commanders in the shooting deaths of 45 workers protesting price hikes in Poland ...
AP Interview: Warsaw ghetto survivor recalls hell
Jakub Gutenbaum still squirms at the thought of scalding-hot walls in the basement where he hid while houses burned overhead during the Warsaw ghetto ...
Poland remembers Warsaw ghetto and its fighters
Israel's ambassador to Poland opened a 3-D show of Warsaw ghetto photos on Wednesday as part of observances marking the 70th anniversary of the ...
Events mark 70 years since Warsaw ghetto uprising
A month of commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising has begun, with a communal cleaning of a Jewish cemetery ...