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.

Israel’s prime minister has lashed out at German poet Guenter Grass for calling Israel a threat to world peace.

A GERMAN court has convicted an 88-year-old of murdering three Dutch civilians as part of a Nazi hit squad during World War II, capping six decades of efforts to bring the former Waffen SS man to justice.

An 88-year-old former Waffen SS fanatic went on trial today accused of the wartime execution of three civilians in the Netherlands.

HERTA MUELLER, a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse.

About 3,000 Latvians marched through the capital Riga today under heavy police protection to honour countrymen who fought in a German combat unit during World War II.

YOU wouldn’t know who to boycott these last few weeks, so many worthies are turning out to have feet, knees and in some cases thighs of clay.

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.

A PSNI recruit who wore an old IRA medal at a passing out ceremony is under pressure to explain himself.