We must remember that without the efforts of the Red Army , the Nazis would have been able to complete their attempted genocide of Europe’s Jews, writes Geoffrey Roberts

Nuns who ran a hell hole children’s home in Northern Ireland were nearly psychotic, a former resident said.

Church-run “hell hole” children’s homes in Ireland were like Nazi concentration camps, a former resident claimed.

In what can best be described as an act of political cowardice, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has performed an astonishing volte-face by withdrawing support for a peace-and-reconciliation centre at the former Maze prison, outside Belfast.

Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory

Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into Second World War crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps which was closed in the 1980s because of the country’s isolation behind the Iron Curtain.

German prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi death camp guards and others who might now be charged under a new precedent set by the conviction of retired US car worker John Demjanjuk.

The Soviet Army endured terrible suffering — losing eight million soldiers — in its defeat of Nazi Germany, writes Geoffrey Roberts.

A GERMAN court convicted John Demjanjuk for his role in the killing of 27,900 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi death camp during the Holocaust, then set the 91-year-old free because of his age.

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THE red brick barracks that housed starving inmates are sinking into ruin. Time has warped victims’ leather shoes into strange shapes. Hair sheared to make cloth is slowly turning to dust.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was a willing follower of Hitler, his war crimes trial heard today.

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.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, deported from the US to face charges of helping murder of 29,000 people, was transferred to a German prison today.

The trial of Ernst Zundel, a leading Holocaust denier, opened today with the judge dismissing a defence lawyer, himself a well-known far-right activist who was convicted of incitement earlier this year.

Two Jewish relatives of US presidential hopeful John Kerry perished in the Nazi genocide of the Second World War, officials at Israel’s Holocaust archive said today.

An 88-year-old woman medical professor has been charged with murdering a mentally ill patient in 1941, which came during a Nazi drive to kill institutional patients, a German prosecutor said today.

A judge today revoked the US citizenship of John Demjanjuk, agreeing with government allegations that he was a Nazi concentration camp guard.