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Wiesel survives Madoff and heart bypass
When Elie Wiesel emerged from quintuple heart bypass surgery, still wired to monitors, he immediately started writing a book about the ordeal — "in ...
Justices open big term with new human rights case
The Supreme Court plunged into its new term Monday with a high-stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for ...
German prosecutors shelve Nazi massacre probe
Prosecutors in Germany said Monday they have shelved their investigation of 17 former German SS soldiers who were part of a unit involved in a Nazi ...
Netanyahu's bomb steals the show in his UN speech
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held up a cartoon-like drawing of a bomb during his speech at the U.N., he set off an explosion of ...
Amid U.N. debate, different models on free speech
Amid the firestorm over an American film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva voted Friday on a resolution by a ...
Germany: Mosley takes on Google in privacy fight
Former Formula One boss Max Mosley is suing Google, claiming the search engine is breaking German privacy laws by providing links to websites hosting ...
Israel's Netanyahu draws his "red line" for Iran
In his most detailed plea to date for global action against Iran's nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday the world ...
Statue found by Nazis made from meteorite
An ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II was carved from a meteorite that crashed on ...
Town debates future of house of Hitler's birth
Living space in Braunau is scarce, but an imposing Renaissance-era building stands empty in this post-card pretty Austrian town because of the ...
Israel's Netanyahu to push case against Iran at UN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to the United Nations Wednesday night with a single item on his agenda: Iran. Netanyahu is convinced ...
Boise police on alert over neo-Nazi music festival
The Boise mayor's office is fielding numerous complaints about a neo-Nazi music festival planned for early October, the city's police department said.
Pursuit of alleged Nazi camp guard timeless
The chief Nazi hunter with the Simon Wiesenthal Center says age and the passage of time are no barriers to investigating alleged Nazi activity during ...
Goebbels' early letters show controlling behavior
The love letters, school papers and dramatic works of college-age Joseph Goebbels reveal a romantic young man beginning to show signs of anti-Semitism ...
AP Exclusive: Philadelphia man Nazi probe target
Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death ...
German lawmakers see signs of far-right cover up
German lawmakers investigating a string of far-right murders said Monday there appeared to have been a cover up by officials who withheld key ...
Report: German police had lead on neo-Nazis in '02
Information that could have led to the arrest of three fugitive neo-Nazis later implicated in a string of far-right murders may have remained unused ...
Greece to toughen hate crime sentencing
Greece will toughen sentencing for hate crimes, following a surge in attacks against immigrants and violence involving members of a far-right ...
AP Exclusive: Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime
The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of ...
Key dates related to the Katyn massacre
— September 1939: World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland from the west, quickly followed by the Soviet invasion from the east.
Jewish groups upset by Estonian mock ad
Jewish organizations have denounced an Estonian newspaper for publishing a mock ad for weight-loss pills depicting emaciated prisoners at a Nazi ...
Facing possible ban German far-right changes tack
At a rally of Germany's biggest far-right party, skinheads raise fists to nationalist chants and wear T-shirts that skirt the limits of German law: ...
Polish crematorium plan offends Holocaust memory
Authorities in an eastern Polish city are trying to stop a funeral company from building a crematorium in the same neighborhood as the former German ...
Poland hopes to identify remains of Auschwitz hero
It could hardly have been a riskier mission: infiltrate Auschwitz to chronicle Nazi atrocities. Witold Pilecki survived nearly three years as an ...
Tomas Sedlacek, Czech general, dies at 94
A Czech general who fought with the Allies in France, Britain and the Soviet Union during World War II and who later resisted the communist regimes ...
German state cracks down on neo-Nazis
More than 900 police officers raided homes and clubhouses of suspected neo-Nazis in a crackdown in a western German state on Thursday, seizing ...