Elderly survivors are gathering at the former Auschwitz death camp as political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a warning while the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

German prosecutors have said they consider a 96-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard who was convicted as an accessory to murder fit to go to prison.

Hungary's collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War was a "mistake" and a "sin" as it failed to protect its Jewish community, prime minister Viktor Orban has said.

Russian and French dignitaries have paid their respects to a pilot in a French-Soviet squadron that fought the Nazis on the eastern front together in the Second World War.

A new BBC drama is aiming to bring a Nazi-occupied London to life, writes Gemma Dunn

The United States Tennis Association has apologised after an outdated version of the German national anthem that became associated with the Nazi regime was performed before a Fed Cup match in Hawaii.

The United States Tennis Association has apologised after a version of Germany's historic national anthem associated with the Nazi regime was performed before a Fed Cup match.

A prison warden in Ecuador has been disciplined after it was discovered that security guards were marking visitors to the jail with hand stamps featuring the Nazi swastika.

A large number of human bones have been unearthed in an upmarket part of Berlin close to where Nazi scientists performed research on death camp victims' body parts.

Explorers in Poland have begun digging for a supposed Nazi train laden with treasure and armaments, undeterred by decades of fruitless searches and a scientific determination that no train is even there.

An international research team has pinpointed the location of a legendary tunnel that Jewish prisoners secretly dug out with spoons to try to escape their Nazi captors during the Second World War

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder and former head of France's far-right National Front party, has been convicted of denying crimes against humanity for repeating that the Nazi gas chambers are a "detail" of Second World War history.

Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, where 875,000 people were murdered, has died in Israel at the age of 93.

A 95-year-old man is to go on trial next month on 3,681 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly serving in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp.

Polish-born Thomas Blatt, who lost both parents and a younger brother in the gas chambers of the Nazis’ Sobibor extermination camp, has died at his US home, aged 88.

French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen will go on trial for comparing Muslim street prayers to wartime Nazi occupation, party officials and the prosecutor’s office said yesterday.

German prosecutors have charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations she was a member of the Nazi SS who served in the Auschwitz death camp complex.

Polish authorities have blocked off a wooded area near a railway track after scores of treasure hunters swarmed south-west Poland looking for an alleged Nazi gold train.

A deputy mayor in Poland says lawyers for two men who claim to have found a Nazi gold train have told him that it is somewhere in the southwestern city of Walbrzych.

A mysterious Nazi treasure train that has been missing for 70 years and which two men claim to have found recently does exist, the Polish deputy culture minister has claimed.

A Nazi train loaded with gold, gems and valuable art that reportedly disappeared at the end of the Second World War has been found in Poland, according to two men.

Footage showing the Queen performing a Nazi salute as a child could have been accidentally leaked by Buckingham Palace, it has been reported.

The US’s social services paid $20.2m in benefits to more than 130 suspected Nazi war criminals, SS guards, and others who may have taken part in atrocities during the Second World War.

Vladimir Katriuk, the man who held the second spot on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of most wanted Nazi war criminals, has died, his lawyer said. He was 93.

The Soviets were crucial to the Allied victory in WW2, but 70 years on there is a rift again, says Geoffrey Roberts

Austria’s president has reminded citizens that their country was a supporter of Nazi Germany and has urged them to be vigilant against a resurgence of extreme-right sentiment.

Concentration camp survivor Tomi Reichental has turned his childhood horror into something positive, speaking out against racism and tracking down Nazis, writes Ailín Quinlan

Australia’s gaffe-prone prime minister took back his second Nazi-related comment in a month after he compared the opposition party leader to German World War II-era propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Australia’s gaffe-prone prime minister took back his second Nazi-related comment in a month today after he compared the opposition party leader to German Second World War propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.