Nazi Germany

Nazi war crimes evidence comes to the Holocaust museum in Washington

by Michael E. Ruane

Newly digitized copies of audio, film and pictures from the Nuremberg trials detail the breadth and depravity of the Holocaust.

'I Shall Never Forget the Kindness.' How England Helped Albert Einstein Escape Nazi Germany

by Andrew Robinson

Einstein was widely thought to be public enemy number one of the Nazis.

The Poignant Wartime Diary of a Jewish Teenager Living in Poland Has Been Published in English

Renia Spiegel was killed by the Nazis when she was 18 years old.

When This German Artist Tried to Use His Work to Warn About Hitler, the World Ignored Him. It's Time to Listen

by Mary M. Lane

German painter George Grosz predicted the rise of the Nazi Regime through his art. Why did no one pay attention? 

The Declassified History of Hitler's British Traitors

by Tim Tate

For all the genuine unity and determination of the vast majority of the British population to defeat Hitler, there was also a small – but dangerous – sub-stratum which yearned for the day when his troops could goose-step down Whitehall amid an orgy of swastika flags.

"Nazi Hunters" And The Search for Justice After the Holocaust

An interview with Andrew Nagorski, the author of "The Nazi Hunters."

Maximilian Schell Changed the Way We Think About the Holocaust. Really.

by Jennifer Frost

1960's "Judgment at Nuremberg," Schell's starmaking role, avoided the redemption so typical of Holocaust movies of that era.

Ukraine's Toxic History of Fascism and Ethnic Cleansing

by Robert Thurston

Far too many Ukrainians today have fond memories of Nazi-collaborating nationalists in World War II.

Nazis 'wanted to use mosquitoes as a weapon'

Nazi scientists were working on ways to use malaria-carrying mosquitoes as a weapon, researchers have uncovered. Until now, experts have disputed whether Germany was working on biological warfare during World War II.

Turkish students convicted over Nazi salute at Auschwitz

The students were sentenced, in absentia, to a suspended prison sentence.

The Unquiet Ghosts of Nazi Germany

by Timothy W. Ryback

"Generation War" sparks a new debate about Germany's Nazi past.

Strange 1924 Article Claimed Hitler 'Favorable to Jews'

The article originally appeared in the Zionist paper Doar Hayom.

What Really Caused the Reichstag Fire

by Benjamin Carter Hett

Historians have accepted the Nazi version of the story for years. But there's considerable evidence pointing to a Nazi conspiracy.

Two Researchers Nominated to Investigate Trove of Nazi-Looted Art

Sophie Lillie and Agnes Peresztegi will serve on a panel chaired by Germany’s former deputy state minister for culture.

Nazi-looted art found in German parliament

The latest revelations come after the discovery of massive stash of looted art last month.

Did the Nazis steal the Mona Lisa?

The extraordinary tale of the Nazi art thieves believed to have stashed the world's most famous painting in an alpine salt mine.

The man who could have shot Hitler

Henry Tandey could have killed a wounded Hitler in World War I. But he didn't.

Manfred Rommel, Son of German Field Marshal, Dies at 84

The son of Erwin Rommel became a three-term mayor of Stuttgart.

Germany Looks Back on Pogroms and Saviors

The German president opened a week of commemoration by visiting a museum dedicated to Otto Weidt, a savoir of Jews during the Holocaust.

As Germans Push Austerity, Greeks Press Nazi-Era Claims

"Maybe some of us have not paid our taxes," one Greek farmer says, "but that is nothing compared to what they did."