When the Culture Ministry honored a Nazi sympathizer who mocked democracy and called for the forced subjugation of the Muslim minority, it was a chilling indication of where Narendra Modi is leading Hindu nationalism – and India
Two Germans are pressing Berlin to save the grave of decorated World War I pilot Wilhelm Frankl from future destruction by declaring it a ‘grave of honor’ – but the city is refusing
A U.S. immigration judge ordered the deportation of the 95-year-old man to Germany after finding that his 'willing service as an armed guard' constituted assistance in Nazi-sponsored persecution
The branch director, Tomasz Greniuch, called his conduct ‘a mistake,’ but critics have found other evidence which could point to a far-right past
A breakthrough book by Gershom Gorenberg featuring uncovered secrets from World War II reveals how easily the war could have gone the other way, and how Israelis tend to exaggerate the role played by the Palmach
The 95-year-old man who authorities say confessed to guarding prisoners at a German concentration camp is wanted for accessory to murder
The bill sets a $40,000 fine for 'knowingly disseminating false information' about the Soviet Union’s actions during the war
The vice president of a survivors' committee weighed in on the failure of German courts to prosecute Nazi criminals after the belated trials of a former concentration camp guard and secretary in February
To understand the Pétain government's inexplicable support for the continued activities of the Jewish Scouts during World War II, we must abandon our stereotypical views of the Holocaust in France
Fredy Hirsch was a revered, openly gay Jewish youth leader who brightened the lives of kids at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz and saved many from death. Why is he virtually unknown in Israel?
Ruling comes after a court indicted a former concentration camp secretary following a German precedent that anyone who helped a Nazi camp function can be prosecuted for accessory to the murders committed there
‘How can you be offended by the truth?’ asks Katarzyna Markusz, after being asked by Warsaw police if an article she wrote last October was intended to slander the good name of the nation
In preliminary phase of trial, court will have to decide whether Irmgard P., who was a minor when she served in the Stutthof concentration camp, can bear responsibility for the crimes committed outside her office
While the justices decided that this law barred the claims that the Jewish heirs brought against a German agency that administers state museums, they directed lower courts to re-examine other arguments
The Paper Brigade set out to rescue Jewish intellectual treasures, first from the Nazis, then the Russians – even at peril of their lives
History shows that politics based on incitement flares up fast – but it is also likely to fade away fast
Many Holocaust survivors in the United States, Israel and elsewhere find themselves in a state of previously unimaginable isolation due to the coronavirus
The Trump era, and its insurrectionist end, shows why the insistence of historians who call fascism a ‘demon of the past’ is both inaccurate – and dangerous
During World War II, Stepan Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose men killed thousands of Jews and Poles
Hitler’s affliction after World War I and the doctor who treated him star in a 1939 novel by Ernst Weiss, a Jewish physician and writer whose works – praised by the likes of Kafka – only recently got their due in Israel
Blanka Goldman's land was sold to the Catholic Church by the Polish neighbor who saved her in WWII. After 10 years of legal battle and institutional resistance, Supreme Court rules to return land to her daughter
The German woman encountered criticism at the protest as her security guard took off his vest and said, 'I’m not going to be a security guard for bullshit like this,' according to Deutsche Welle
The CNN anchor came under fire after accusing Trump of 'four years of a modern-day assault on fact, knowledge, history and truth'
It’s the latest in a string of inflammatory statements made by the younger Netanyahu, who has emerged as a right-wing provocateur on social media and elsewhere
‘Thrill-seekers and opportunists’: Recently found information reveals how former Nazis infiltrated the West German spy agency
Republican Jewish Coalition calls on Democratic nominee to apologize for comparing president to Nazi propagandist
Mayor committed to preserving stones used for construction of the market square during Nazis’ WWII assault
Officers also accused of sharing doctored images depicting refugees in gas chambers and using far-right chatrooms
Stanislav Tomas destroyed a plaque dedicated to Jonas Noreika, a known Nazi war criminal seen as a national hero by some Lithuanians for his fight against the Communist regime