Nazis

Amadeu António Kiowa, a contract worker from Angola, should have lived to see his child grow up. But his life ended thirty-two years ago today in Brandenburg, where racist extremists killed him.

On November 9th, 1938, Nazi mobs destroyed businesses owned by Jews and synagogues all over Germany. Fifty-one years later, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin…

It started in Cologne. The artist Gunter Demnig could not accept the fact that residents did not know people of Romani origin who used to live there were…

Germany's small Jewish community does have prominent voices. One of them is Charlotte Knobloch, who was born three months before the fascist Nazi regime came to power in Berlin. She survived the Holocaust thanks to a non-Jewish woman who pretended she was her daughter.

In Berlin, thousands of supporters of the radical right-wing 'Alternative for Germany' (AfD) gathered in front of the Reichstag building on Saturday. Prominent…

The hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims of Romani origin are not being commemorated much. The Council of Europe and other organizations want this to…

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.