BERLIN – Just in time for Richard Wagner’s bicentennial this month, a controversy has erupted over a new production of Tannhäuser in Düsseldorf because of violent depictions of a Nazi ... Read more
German authorities on Monday arrested a 93-year-old former Nazi soldier, saying that they had “compelling evidence” that he had worked as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp and was ... Read more
BERLIN – When the German newsweekly Stern announced in April 1983 that it had acquired Hitler’s previously undiscovered diaries, the magazine’s exclusive prompted a worldwide sensation. The ... Read more
WARSAW — In the entryway of the new Jewish museum here this week, Poland’s chief rabbi unveiled an unusual sculpture: an old, hollowed-out brick engraved with a single Hebrew letter. ... Read more
ALBANY — High school is full of hypotheticals, like “How does one solve for x?” and “What happens if I skip class?” But this week, students at Albany High School were given an ... Read more
BERLIN — They worked as guards at the Holocaust’s most notorious death camp, and nearly seven decades later they may finally be brought to account before a court of law. ... Read more
AMMAN, Jordan — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday apologized in a personal phone call to Turkey’s prime minister for a deadly commando raid on a Turkish ship in 2010, in a sudden ... Read more
JERUSALEM – After rekindling the eternal flame and laying a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, a solemn President Obama spoke on Friday of a collective “obligation not just to bear witness ... Read more
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, believed to be the last surviving member of an elaborate plot to kill Adolf Hitler during World War II, died on Friday at his home in Munich. He was 90. His death was ... Read more
BERLIN — Klaus Born vividly recalls his first brush with the law, which took place along a quiet street in West Berlin in the 1960s, when being gay carried a prison sentence on both sides of the Berlin ... Read more