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TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt
With the wartime generation rapidly disappearing, a television drama about five young Germans in World War II has revived debate in Germany about the ...
Art world shivers at sale of Henry Moore statue
The massive bronze sculpture is formally known as "Draped Seated Woman," a Henry Moore creation that evoked Londoners huddled in air raid shelters ...
American gets back art taken by Nazis during WWII
Tom Selldorff was 6 years old when he saw his grandfather's prized art collection for the last time in 1930s Vienna, before it fell into Nazi hands.
Life ban from Greece team for Nazi salute player
Greek soccer player Giorgos Katidis has been banned from his national team for life after giving a Nazi salute while celebrating a goal in the ...
Jews in Greece mark WWII Nazi deportation
Jewish residents of this northern Greek city on Saturday marked the 70th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination ...
Latvians commemorate Waffen SS divisions
Over a thousand Latvians on Saturday commemorated Nazi-allied World War II soldiers while police used force to prevent violence from erupting between ...
Last survivor of plot to kill Hitler dies at 90
As a 22-year-old German army lieutenant, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist volunteered to wear a suicide vest to a meeting with Adolf Hitler and to blow ...
Austria marks annexation by Germany 75 years ago
In shockingly graphic detail at ceremonies marking Austria's annexation by Germany 75 years ago, the son of an anti-Nazi activist on Monday recounted ...
Stuttgart museum returns painting sold under Nazis
A Stuttgart museum has returned a 600-year-old painting to the estate of Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who was forced to sell his collection before ...
Hessel, France's surprise elder icon, dies at 95
Stephane Hessel of France was a man of many talents. As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the ...
German intel paid neo-Nazi informer $240,000
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has come under fire for paying almost a quarter of a million dollars to a neo-Nazi informer linked to a ...
German home-school parents appeal asylum ruling
A couple who fled Germany with their five children over fears they would lose custody for not sending them to school has asked a federal appeals court ...
Correction: France-Holocaust Theft story
In a Feb. 14 story about France giving back seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners during World War II, The Associated Press erroneously ...
Pope's mission to revive faith clouded by scandal
Benedict XVI always cast himself as the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps to the public glare and the majesty ...
Pope to resign Feb. 28, says he's too infirm
Declaring that he lacks the strength to do his job, Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday he will resign Feb. 28 — becoming the first pontiff to step ...
Pope Benedict XVI considered a friend in Israel
When Joseph Ratzinger became pope in 2005, many in Israel wondered whether the German-born Cardinal with the Nazi past would prove a worthy successor ...
Stories of Holocaust survivors retold by holograms
For years, Holocaust survivor Pinchus Gutter has told the tragic story of watching his parents and 10-year-old twin sister herded into a Nazi death ...
Judge: No show trial for German far-right suspects
A senior German judge has rejected calls to give the public greater access at the trial of a woman suspected of involvement in a far-right murder ...
Russia marks 70th anniversary of Stalingrad battle
An aged T-34 tank clattered into the center of the southern Russian city once known as Stalingrad and soldiers dressed in World War II-era uniforms ...
Russian WWII vet recalls the Battle of Stalingrad
The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 ...
Stalingrad gets name back on days marking battle
The southern Russian city where the Red Army decisively turned back Nazi forces in a key World War II battle will once again be known as Stalingrad, ...
Germany marks 80th anniversary of Hitler's rise
On the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to always fight for their principles and not fall into ...
Roma artist, writer on Nazi atrocities, dies at 79
Ceija Stojka survived three Nazi death camps and then found her life's work: Raising awareness of the Nazis' persecution of Roma — also known as ...
The dead aren't always excused from trial
Sergei Magnitsky died more than three years ago in a Russian jail but authorities are moving to put him on trial in a Russian court.
Holocaust items put on display for remembrance day
When Stella Knobel's family fled World War II Poland in 1939, the only thing the 7-year-old girl could take with her was her teddy bear. For the next ...