Following a ground-breaking case in Germany last week, in which a former Auschwitz guard apologised for his crimes, Andrew Nagorski looks at the refusal of many former Nazis to say sorry.

OPENING its gates in May, 1939, four months before the outbreak of the Second World War — to be liberated by the Russians six years later — Ravensbrück, 50 miles north of Berlin, in Germany, was the only concentration camp the Nazis built to house only female political prisoners.

A 93-year-old German who worked as a guard at the Auschwitz death camp has died days before his trial was due to open.

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant has gone on trial in Germany on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, based on accusations that he served as a guard in the Auschwitz death camp as hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews and others were gassed to death there.

In November 2005, the United Nations officially designated January 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day under Resolution 60/7.

A far-right politician who was seen at a swimming pool with a tattoo of what appeared to be the Auschwitz death camp on his back has gone on trial in Germany, charged with incitement.

THIS week a 94 year-old man was sent to jail for four years because of his complicity in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz. Oskar Gröning, a former SS officer, was a bookkeeper who kept records of the personal belongings stolen from concentration camp inmates before they were murdered. 

German prosecutors have sought a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland, saying his role there made him an accessory to murder.

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served in Auschwitz has testified that he helped the death camp function in his role sorting cash and valuables seized from Jews after they arrived in cattle-cars.

A former SS sergeant has described in chilling detail how cattle cars full of Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp, the people stripped of their belongings, and then most led directly into gas chambers.

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A former Auschwitz guard acknowledged he bears a share of the moral guilt for atrocities at the camp, but told judges at the opening of his trial that it is up to them to decide whether he deserves to be convicted as an accessory to murder.

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Marta Wise was ill and emaciated when she heard the distant sound of soldiers marching toward Auschwitz.

Dermot Bannon is back with a new series of Room To Improve tomorrow.

A former Auschwitz guard who has lived in the US since 1952 is in custody facing possible extradition to Germany after being accused of helping to kill 216,000 Jewish men, women, and children at the Nazi death camp.

A former Auschwitz guard who has lived in America since 1952 is in custody facing possible extradition to Germany after being accused of helping to kill 216,000 Jewish men, women and children at the notorious Nazi death camp.

Nuns who ran a hell hole children’s home in Northern Ireland were nearly psychotic, a former resident said.

Then We Take Berlin

Thirty alleged former Auschwitz guards have been accused of Nazi war crimes by a special German prosecutors’ office, opening the possibility of a new wave of trials almost 70 years after the Second World War.

Where I Left My Soul

The oldest known former prisoner of the Auschwitz death camp has died in Poland at the age of 108.

The notorious sign that once spanned the main gate at Auschwitz will not return to its original spot after being recently repaired from the damage it suffered during a 2009 theft.

A Swede is suspected of being the mastermind behind the brazen theft last year of the notorious Arbeit Macht Frei sign from Auschwitz, a prosecutor said today.

THE International Criminal Court yesterday charged Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide in Darfur, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.

Three men were jailed today for stealing the notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei' ('Work Sets You Free') sign from the Auschwitz memorial site last year.

A man wanted in Poland in connection with the theft of a famous sign at Auschwitz was today arrested in Stockholm.

Appeal judges at The International Criminal Court in The Hague today overturned a ruling that Sudan's leader cannot be charged with genocide in Darfur.

Elderly Auschwitz survivors gathered in the snow at the site of the former death camp today to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation.

The brazen theft of the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign sparked a national debate over alleged shortcomings in the security system at the memorial site of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp.

Three men who admitted stealing the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from Auschwitz were made to re-enact the event for investigators today.

POLISH police have recovered the infamous Nazi sign stolen from the former Auschwitz death camp, cut into three pieces, and said yesterday it appeared to have been taken by common criminals seeking profit.

Polish police and border guards stepped up security checks at airports and border crossings today as the search intensified for the infamous sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp memorial.

THE memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.

The UN cultural watchdog updated its name for the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland today to reflect its German Nazi role.

DOZENS of people who lived near Auschwitz and risked their lives to help inmates at the Nazi death camp were honoured on Saturday, the 62nd anniversary of the camp’s liberation.

Blue and white Israeli flags fluttered in the afternoon breeze as thousands marched in silence today between two former Nazi death camps in Poland, paying homage to the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Poland’s new conservative government wants to change the official name of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on the Unesco world heritage registry, an official said today.