A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to four years in prison.

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Anthony Beevor has written another history of another decisive WWII battle — the last throw of the dice for the Nazis, the Battle of the Bulge. Richard Fitzpatrick enjoyed it.

GERMANY: A pensioner has started digging in Germany’s western Ruhr region for the Amber Room, a priceless work of art looted by Nazis from the Soviet Union during World War Two and missing for 70 years, but says he needs a new drill to help him.

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Vladimir Putin is channelling his inner Trotsky through his dealings and attitudes towards Ukraine. Surely a day of reckoning will soon come, writes Yuliya Tymoshenko

Part of a wrought-iron gate at the former Dachau concentration camp bearing the Nazis’ cynical slogan Work Sets You Free has been stolen.

Germany has inaugurated a memorial to more than 200,000 people with physical and mental disabilities killed by the Nazis after their lives were deemed “worthless”.

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.

German prosecutors have charged a 91-year-old former member of the Nazis’ Waffen SS with murder in the 1944 slaying of a Dutch resistance fighter.

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Jewish organisations have denounced an Estonian newspaper for publishing a mock ad for weight-loss pills depicting emaciated prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp.

Germany’s medical association has apologised for sadistic experiments and other actions of doctors under the Nazis.

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John Demjanjuk, a retired United States carworker who was convicted of being a guard at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp despite steadfastly maintaining during three decades of legal battles that he had been mistaken for someone else, died today, his son said. He was 91.

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Adolf Hitler had a love child with a French teenager who later joined the French Resistance to fight the Nazis during the Second World War, according to extraordinary new evidence.

The UN’s highest court has today confirmed that Germany has legal immunity from being sued in foreign courts by victims of Second World War Nazi atrocities.

EUROPE risks real disaster if the ECB does not ignore the fears of Germany and act as the currency bloc’s lender of last resort, German “wise man” Peter Bofinger said yesterday.

EUROPE has a new informal leadership directorate intent on finding a solution to the eurozone’s debt crisis, but it has yet to prove its ability to come up with a lasting formula.

Bavarian prosecutors have opened a new investigation into John Demjanjuk after a German lawyer filed a complaint accusing him of additional war crimes in an attempt to extend the precedent set by his landmark conviction.

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THE First World War finally draws to a close next week when after 92 years of shouldering a crippling debt the Germans will make their final payment of wartime reparations to the Allies.

A US military historian told the war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk that he doubted the retired Ohio car worker’s account of his whereabouts in the last years of the Second World War.

THE world’s third most wanted Nazi suspect, who allegedly participated in the murder of more than 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp, was involved in the entire killing process: from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to throwing their corpses into mass graves, according to court documents.

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

A GERMAN court put John Demjanjuk on trial yesterday to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp and his lawyer immediately accused the Munich court of bias.

Suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk went on trial today to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews and his lawyer immediately accused the court of bias.

ANY military man will tell you that a successful campaign depends largely on two factors – timing and luck.

A British bishop who faces a Vatican demand to recant his denial of the Holocaust said he would examine the evidence of the Nazis’ mass killings, but it “will take time,” a German magazine reported today.

I WAS horrified by the news that scientists have been given the go-ahead to create part human, part animal embryos that will be destroyed after a short period.

ELEVEN extras were injured during the filming of a new movie starring Tom Cruise.

Eleven extras were injured when they fell out of a truck during filming of a movie starring Tom Cruise, police said today.

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.

Iran faced fresh world condemnation as nearly 70 Holocaust deniers from around the world gathered in Tehran for a conference debating whether the genocide took place.

THE German Government yesterday condemned a planned Iranian conference on the Holocaust, calling attempts to question the Nazis’ murder of Jews “shocking and unacceptable”.

The German government today condemned a planned Iranian conference on the Holocaust and summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires to the Foreign Ministry, calling attempts to question the Nazis’ murder of Jews “shocking and unacceptable”.

Austria’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by right-wing British author David Irving and affirmed the verdict, the Austria Press Agency reported.

The UN chief has got little satisfaction at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran’s leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored in warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust.

Germany has agreed to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers persecuted during the Holocaust.

Germany agreed today to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers who were persecuted during the Holocaust.

Right-wing British historian David Irving, who was convicted by an Austrian court of denying the Holocaust, has been barred from speaking with the press, a court spokeswoman said today.

RIGHT-WING British historian David Irving was convicted in Austria yesterday of denying the Holocaust — a crime in a country once run by the Nazis — and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Right-wing British historian David Irving was convicted in Austria on Monday of denying the Holocaust – a crime in this country once run by the Nazis – and was sentenced to three years in prison.