The love letters, school papers, and dramatic works of a college-age Joseph Goebbels reveal a romantic young man beginning to show signs of anti-Semitism and egotistical behaviour, according to a Connecticut auction house selling the pre-war writings of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief.

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal was today lauded as “the conscience of the Holocaust” as he was laid to rest in Israel, the country that grew out of the ashes of those dark days.

An Israeli newspaper today published previously unseen excerpts of post-Second World War letters written by Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor known as “the Angel of Death”.

For nearly 60 years, Binyamin Shilon believed his sister was among the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Now, he has been reunited with her.

Gregory Peck, the handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as Roman Holiday, Spellbound and his Academy Award winner To Kill A Mockingbird, has died, a spokesman said tonight. He was 87.