Nazis

Seven-Seven years ago today, General Alfred Jodl signed Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. The Allies, including the Soviet Union, had finally liberated Europe from fascism. Today and tomorrow, commemorations for the victims are scheduled to take place in a difficult situation.

Seventy-nine years ago today, Sophie and Hans Scholl were executed at Stadelheim Prison in Munich. Their "crime": They had spread the truth about Nazi Germany…

The Berlin Bundestag observed the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on Thursday. Inge Auerbacher, a survivor, told…

On January 20th, 1942, some of Hitler's henchmen gathered in a villa at the Wannsee, one of Berlin's lakes. Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Security Main Office, SS-'Obersturmbannführer' Adolf Eichmann and thirteen more Nazi officials discussed the deportation and murder of Europe's Jews while they were enjoying drinks.

During the Night of Broken Glass on November 9th, 1938, mobs destroyed businesses owned by Jews and burned down synagogues all over Germany. Fifty-one years…

Ernst Marcus, a Berlin lawyer, woke up in his apartment in the German capital's Grunewald district eighty-three years ago. What he saw was unbelievable.

Exactly eighty years ago, German soldiers murdered 33,771 Jews from Kiev within one and a half days. What took place at Babi Yar was one of the most horrific massacres of all time.

In Berlin, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and Thomas Haldenwang, the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, introduced their…

In the federal state of Hesse, Interior Minister Peter Beuth just disbanded a special police unit members of which had exchanged racist, extremist right-wing…

Victor Baruch, one of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews who were saved from the Nazis, and the only Bulgarian to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, celebrates his 100th birthday today. Imanuel Marcus met him in Sofia, when he was 97.