Close to 24,000 Leaving Certificate students got to show off their French language skills yesterday morning.

Germany has the confidence and capacity to lead Europe, but, ahead of Angela Merkel’s expected re-election, that doesn’t mean its partners have to like it, writes John Lloyd.    

Jesse Owens challenged racists in the US and Nazi Germany. A new film delves into his amazing story, writes Will Lawrence

Ingrid Carlberg’s meticulously crafted biography of Raoul Wallenberg recounts the story of a man who had a hand in the survival of most of the Jews in Budapest who lived through World War Two, writes Neil Robinson.

Hitler had many gay partners, but his attempts at relationships with women proved disastrous, writes Siobhan Pat Mulcahy.

Bill Bailey talks Darwin’s adventures and rubber bishops with Richard Fitzpatrick

Only the people can alter the Constitution and Government should do its utmost not to be seen as interfering with the process, writes Seán Ó Conaill.

DURING the Nazi occupation of Europe, some cities were more unfortunate than others. 

Israeli expats boasting on social media, about the great lifestyle in Berlin and encouraging others to join them, have enraged those at home, says Aron Heller

Randall Hansen,

Cameron rebukes MP for Putin tweet

Japan’s outspoken finance minister has refused to resign or apologise over remarks suggesting the country should follow the Nazi example of how to change its constitution stealthily and without public debate.

Outspoken actor Gabriel Byrne has launched a stinging attack on the Catholic Church and described it as a “force for evil”.

During the economic depression of the 1930s, propagandists singled out specific minorities for particular abuse.

The US Marine Corps once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the Nazi SS - the special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.

IT was such a coveted secret that Hitler sent his most trusted filmmaker to Ireland to capture it.

Nikolaus Pevsner The Life

I Was A Boy in Belsen, Tomi Reichental

I WISH to applaud your recent editorial and comment — you have hit the nail on the head in relation to ‘a society divided’.

IS NAZISM making a comeback? You might think so reading some of the headlines this week. “Behind the migrant row, Europe keeps shifting to the far-right,” warns Time magazine. “Finland leads rise of the far-right in Europe,” according to The Daily Telegraph.

A collection of previously unseen photographs of Adolf Hitler sold at auction for £30,000 (€35,600), an auctioneer said today.

WITH respect, I disagree with Leo Armstrong’s suggestion (Letters, January 12) to put democracy on hold for five years.

HUNDRED of never-seen-before photographs of Adolf Hitler are expected to fetch a six-figure sum when they go under the hammer, an auctioneer said yesterday.

A secret report condemned the US government for knowingly allowing Nazis to settle in America after the Second World War.

A KNEE-HIGH wall, a rusty gate, the brick foundations of razed buildings – such are crumbling remnants of the Nazi empire in the heart of Berlin known by historians as the “centre of evil”.

A small throng of demonstrators arrived early today ahead of British National Party leader Nick Griffin’s victory speech in Blackpool, England.

THE 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s elevation to German chancellor today is one the country would prefer to forget, but the ignominious event that ultimately led to the deaths of millions remains part of the nation’s weighted history.

Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale!

PROCEEDINGS taken by the widow of the late educational publisher Albert Folens to restrain RTÉ from using an interview with her husband in a programme entitled Ireland’s Nazis will be heard in the High Court on Monday.

THE widow of the late educational publisher Albert Folens has secured a temporary High Court order preventing RTÉ from using an interview with her husband as part of its “Hidden Ireland-Ireland’s Nazis” television series.

ONE of Germany’s leading banks financed Nazi arms makers and owned a stake in a company that built crematoria at the Auschwitz concentration camp, authors of a bank-commissioned report found yesterday.

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who fled a British prisoner of war camp in India for the northern Himalayas, where he befriended and tutored the Dalai Lama, died today. He was 93.

Newlywed Renee Zellweger is getting musical again - the actress is reportedly in negotiations to reprise Liza Minnelli's role in a remake of hit movie Cabaret.

Rachel Zoll, Vatican City

Britain's Prince Harry provoked outrage today after being pictured dressed as a Nazi soldier at a fancy dress party.

EAST GERMANS gave a strong boost to right-wing extremists and the former communists in two state elections, punishing the country’s biggest mainstream parties for the region’s high unemployment and cuts in social programmes.

East Germans gave a strong boost to right wing extremists and the former communists in two state elections, punishing the country’s biggest mainstream parties for the region’s high unemployment and cuts in social programmes.

ACTION hero turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has told how he suffered what “would now be called child abuse” at the hands of his father.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger met Ariel Sharon today and wished him good luck in a vote on the prime minister’s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the son of a Nazi, is to visit Israel this weekend on his first foreign trip since taking office and will attend the groundbreaking for a museum dedicated to tolerance.