Jumbo toy stores pull Nazi-themed paper bags
Jumbo toy stores were forced to withdraw paper bags they were selling after it transpired they had Nazi symbols printed on them. The company was...
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Former Nazi death camp guard charged with accessory to murder
German public prosecutors have charged a 96-year-old former guard at a Nazi death camp with having been an accessory to murder, as Germany races against...
German foreign minister equates far-right AfD party with Nazis
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Monday equated the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party with the Nazis who ruled the country from 1933 to...
The hushed-up genocide: Byzantium’s massacre of Greeks
THE EU has established August 23 as the European Day of Memory for the victims of all the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Also known as...
When propaganda works, it then flops at a cost
Kolberg, a Nazi propaganda movie, was released simultaneously in Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich on January 30, 1945, and France’s Atlantic port town...
Outcry over Austrian Freedom Party head posting of poet used by Nazis
The head of Austria’s opposition far right Freedom Party (FPO) has posted online a text by a writer whose poem was used by the Nazis, causing an...
British lawmaker likens Russia’s behaviour in Syria to that of Nazis
A senior British lawmaker has accused Russia of targeting civilians in Syria in the same way the Nazis behaved at Guernica during the Spanish civil...
Germany to quash historic convictions of gay men, pay compensation
Germany plans to annul the historic convictions of tens of thousands of men charged under a law that criminalised homosexuality and to grant them financial...
Former Auschwitz SS medic to stand trial in Germany
By Tina Bellon A 95-year-old former Nazi SS paramedic at the Auschwitz death camp, accused of being an accomplice to the murder of thousands, is...
Polish minister dismisses “silly” EU criticism, cites Nazis
Poland’s justice minister dismissed an EU commissioner’s criticism of new media regulations as “silly” in a confrontational letter that marked a low in the new...