MARIO Rosenstock’s grandparents had an extraordinary war.

Pope Benedict XVI has a reputation as a charming and shy man who is also deeply conservative in his outlook and teaching.

General Zhukov is seen by many as a hero who defeated Hitler and by others as an egotistical brute. Either way he lives on in public consciousness in Russia today, writes Geoffrey Roberts

A 90-year-old former German army officer was today convicted of ordering the reprisal killings of 10 Italian civilians who were herded into a barn that was blown up.

AGONY AND ECSTASY: Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs race to celebrate with Anderson who scored the winning penalty in the Carling Cup final shoot-out at Wembley.

THOUGH maybe not quiet as daunting as being made a Wehrmacht field marshal deep in the cold steppes of Stalin’s Soviet Union in, say, 1943, assuming leadership of the Progressive Democrats bring its own challenges.

Thousands of people gathered near Germany’s biggest World War II soldiers cemetery today to protest against far-right extremism.

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.

Prince Harry’s Nazi fancy-dress uniform complete with swastika armband sparked international outrage tonight amid calls for him to apologise in public for his “shameful” antics.

Britain's Prince Harry provoked outrage today after being pictured dressed as a Nazi soldier at a fancy dress party.

Some 3,000 right-wing extremists marched through central Berlin today for a march against an exhibition on Nazi-era crimes by the German army.