A German Jewish leader today welcomed a new exhibition in Berlin exploring the personality cult surrounding Adolf Hitler that helped the Nazis win and hold power.

German top government officials and immigrant leaders today condemned remarks by a board member of Germany’s federal bank as racist and anti-Semitic.

Bernie Ecclestone has issued an apology following remarks he made at the weekend about Adolf Hitler.

GERMANY marked the 70th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom, a prelude to the Holocaust, with solemn ceremonies throughout the country and celebrations of the rebirth of Jewish life in the country yesterday.

A German historian is campaigning to get Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf published in Germany for the first time since World War Two, warning that a delay could turn the controversial book into a sensation.

A TRIO of students will be confirmed as rabbis today, the first such ordination in Germany since the Nazi regime began the slaughter of six million European Jews more than 60 years ago.

NOBEL Prize-winning German novelist Guenter Grass is facing a growing storm of criticism following his admission that he served in the Waffen SS during World War II.

IT’S a prospect loaded with historical baggage: German troops joining a proposed international force in Lebanon to police the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

GERMANY opened its long-delayed Holocaust memorial yesterday - a field of closely set concrete slabs in the heart of Berlin that tries to summon the helplessness of six million Jews killed by the Nazis.

Germany opened its long-delayed national Holocaust memorial today - a field of closely set concrete slabs in the heart of Berlin that tries to summon the helplessness of 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

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.

A German Jewish group is threatening to sue ISPs which host and allow access to neo-Nazi and far right websites.