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Hitler's Famous Alpine Retreat Getting $22 Million Makeover

AP | Posted 06.11.2013 | World

BERLIN -- Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria is getting a makeover, with a 17-million euro ($22.5 million) renovation project that will enlarg...

How American Jews Rescued Europeans From The Nazis

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.20.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK -- An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during...

Hitler's Food Taster Recalls Gripping Fear, Delicious Asparagus

AP | KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 04.26.2013 | World

BERLIN -- They were feasts of sublime asparagus – laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from th...

Anti-Gay Pundit: 'Homofacists' Will Force Christians To Wear Nazi-Like ID Patches

Posted 04.12.2013 | Gay Voices

Bryan Fischer is no stranger to comparing the gay rights movement to Nazi Germany, but his latest rant might be his most shocking yet. The America...

Shelter in the Dark: Director Janet Tobias on No Place on Earth

Andrew Fish | Posted 06.10.2013 | Entertainment
Andrew Fish

Along with renowned cinematographer César Charlone (The Constant Gardener, City of God), Janet Tobias steeps audiences in this story of darkness, family, survival and triumph.

Germany's Band of Brothers

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 06.03.2013 | Entertainment
Franz-Stefan Gady

The real genius of Our Mothers, Our Fathers is the subtle portrayal of this collective moral suicide.

Greece's Unsettled WWII German Reparations: A Stain in the International Legal System

Ilias Sourdis | Posted 05.21.2013 | World
Ilias Sourdis

Frustrated with the persistent refusal of Germany to settle the decades long pending WWII German reparation obligations, ordinary Greek citizens have organized a petition and are collecting signatures to demand the long delayed settlement.

Hitler's Austria 'Not All Bad,' Some Say

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 03.11.2013 | World

A new poll published in Austria suggests modern Nazis could win elected office in the European country if given the chance. In addition, of the severa...

Austria Remembers 'Darkest Time' In History

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 03.11.2013 | World

VIENNA -- In shockingly graphic detail at ceremonies marking Austria's annexation by Germany 75 years ago, the son of an anti-Nazi activist on Monday ...

The Second Battle of Marathon

Evaggelos Vallianatos | Posted 05.01.2013 | World
Evaggelos Vallianatos

In 490 BCE, Athenians and Plataeans defeated a vastly larger invading Persian army, thus keeping Greece and Europe free from Persian occupation and slavery. The war and resistance of Greece to Italians and Germans in WWII also saved Europe from Nazi German occupation and slavery.

Germany Expands Payments To Aging Nazi Victims

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 01.15.2013 | World

BERLIN — Sixty years after a landmark accord started German government compensation for victims of Nazi crimes, fund administrators and German o...

Torture Victims Win Case Against UK, But WWII Greek Victims Still Await Justice

Ilias Sourdis | Posted 11.05.2012 | World
Ilias Sourdis

Congratulations to the three Mau Mau Kenyan torture victims who recently won a landmark victory of immense global repercussions against their former c...

WATCH: Couple Falls In Love At Nazi Camp, Reunites After 60 Years

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 10.31.2012 | Good News

At age 15 in 1944, Thomas Beck escaped over the wall of a Nazi concentration camp in Budapest with one regret. He was leaving behind Edith Greiman, a ...

Austria Probes Gruesome Nazi Abuse

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 10.19.2012 | World

HALL, Austria -- Forensic crews scraping away dirt from the remains of the Nazi-era psychiatric patients were puzzled: The skeletal fingers were entwi...

Germany Investigates Philadelphia Man In Nazi Probe

AP | DAVID RISING, MATT MOORE and RANDY HERSCHAFT | Posted 11.23.2012 | World

BERLIN — Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Aus...

German Neo-Nazis On Trial

AP | Posted 08.21.2012 | World

BERLIN -- Twenty-six alleged neo-Nazis are on trial in Germany on accusations they were responsible for a spate of attacks on leftists in western Germ...

Teacher Will Not Be Punished For Likening Obama Policy To Nazi Germany

AP | Posted 07.30.2012 | Home

ROARING SPRING, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania school district says a teacher was exercising his First Amendment rights during a speech in which he drew parall...

Nazi-Huntin' - Never Too Late to Start

Huw L. Hopkins | Posted 09.18.2012 | World
Huw L. Hopkins

Many war-criminals have been sentenced, but until each one has been subjected to a full level of punishment, a dark grey cloud will hang over the lives of millions of Jewish people who are still alive.

Rare German Bomber Plane's Radiator Brought Up From Sea Floor

AP | Posted 06.12.2012 | World

BERLIN -- A German Military Historical Museum spokesman says divers are making good progress on bringing up the wreck of a German World War II Stuka d...

President Obama's Medal for Karski Shines Light on Poland's Real World War II Record

Alex Storozynski | Posted 07.29.2012 | World
Alex Storozynski

After escaping Soviet imprisonment and being savagely tortured by the Gestapo, Karski risked his life to sneak past German guards into the ghetto to see how the Nazis were abusing Jews. Karski then disguised himself as a Ukrainian guard to visit a transfer station that sorted Jews on their way to the death camps.

Propaganda, Public Diplomacy and the Smith-Mundt Act

John Brown | Posted 05.26.2012 | World
John Brown

Propaganda is an instrument of war used by a government, primarily but not exclusively, against a present or possibly future enemy, and a democratic government should not propagandize its own people.

8 Famous Americans' Experiences In Nazi Germany

Andrew Nagorski | Posted 05.15.2012 | Books
Andrew Nagorski

Berlin underwent an explosion of creativity in the arts and sciences even as it reeled from the consequences of Germany's defeat. It was precisely this chaos, creativity and excitement of the German capital that served as a magnet for many Americans, including numerous celebrities.

The Threads of Justice That Bind Us All

James Peron | Posted 05.02.2012 | Gay Voices
James Peron

The words that Hans Scholl said as he was being led to guillotine should remain our inspiration: "Long live freedom." The fight for freedom is one fight, no matter who fights it, no matter where it is fought, no matter the circumstances.

Supposed Nazi Surgery Kit Withdrawn From London Auction

AP | Posted 04.10.2012 | World

LONDON — A surgical kit advertised as belonging to a Nazi concentration camp commandant has been withdrawn from sale, and questions have been ra...

Wannsee at 70: The Lessons of Hatred Endure

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 03.19.2012 | World
Abraham H. Foxman

As we commemorate the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, that infamous meeting where the Nazis formally adopted the "Final Solution", let us focus on what was unique about the Holocaust amid the other atrocities of the modern era.