ARCHITECTURAL plans for the Auschwitz death camp discovered in Berlin last year were handed over yesterday to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for display at Israel’s Holocaust memorial.

THE Vatican defended the Pope from a growing chorus of Israeli critics who accused the German-born Benedict XVI of failing to express enough remorse for the Holocaust – a controversy that threatened to eclipse a papal pilgrimage aimed at building bridges between faiths.

THE 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s elevation to German chancellor today is one the country would prefer to forget, but the ignominious event that ultimately led to the deaths of millions remains part of the nation’s weighted history.

Pope Benedict XVI, making sentimental stops in his predecessor’s homeland, brought joy to Poles by announcing that he hopes John Paul II will be made a saint “in the near future".

ONE of Germany’s leading banks financed Nazi arms makers and owned a stake in a company that built crematoria at the Auschwitz concentration camp, authors of a bank-commissioned report found yesterday.

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.