A 16th century Hebrew Bible looted by the Nazis six decades ago was returned to Vienna's Jewish community Monday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials turned over the two-volume Bible to two Austrian emissaries during a repatriation ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan.
It was one of the greatest mysteries of the collapse of the Third Reich. As Russian tanks moved into Berlin and Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, his brutal and feared private secretary, Martin Bormann, simply vanished.
Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that Nazi concentration camps were "extreme symbols of evil" and hell on earth.
Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but Johann Sebastian Bach was the one the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal.
Kurt Elias vividly remembers the day in 1938 when the Nazis barred him from entering the University of Vienna because he was Jewish.
More than six decades since the end of World War II, bringing alleged Nazi war criminals to trial has become increasingly difficult as the suspects have grown increasingly old and frail.
A neo-Nazi group has joined the state's "Adopt-A-Highway" volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan.
A court ruled Tuesday that too much time has passed to prove whether or not a 105-year-old entertainer sang for Nazi guards at a concentration camp during World War II.
A former Israeli Mossad agent says the team that kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolph Eichmann in 1960 knowingly let another notorious war criminal — Josef Mengele — get away.
Germany unveiled a memorial Tuesday to the Nazis' long-ignored gay victims, a monument that also aims to address ongoing discrimination by confronting visitors with an image of a same-sex couple kissing.
The Bush administration has instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to defend its decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees accused in the Sept. 11 terror attacks by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals after World War II.
The two Picasso paintings have been in prominent New York museum collections for decades. But now the institutions are asking a court to declare them the lawful owners amid a Jewish scholar's claims that the works were the rightful property of a relative persecuted in Nazi Germany.
A decades-old tattered brown leather album with photographs of 18th century paintings offers a rare glimpse into Adolf Hitler's massive looting of artwork during World War II.
Serbian police said Monday they had detained 56 neo-Nazis who defied a ban and demonstrated to demand the contested province of Kosovo remain part of the Serbia. The arrests came after clashes broke out between the extremists and anti-fascists holding a counter demonstration.
An artist's creation of gingerbread Nazis drew complaints after it was displayed in a hardware store window, prompting the store owner to demand the artwork be removed. Charlie Palmer covered the gingerbread men during the weekend and said he wanted them out by of his business by Tuesday.
Determined to win the Cold War, the CIA kept quiet about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s for fear he might expose undercover anticommunist efforts in West Germany, according to documents released Tuesday.
Tom O'Neill , entertainment expert of the Los Angeles Times, is one of the heavyweight prognosticators of the Academy Awards.
The war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk today heard from relatives of parents, sisters and sweethearts killed at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp. Several dozen relatives have joined as co-plaintiffs in the trial of Demjanjuk, a retired U.S.
A sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp in Poland has been recovered by police. The 16 feet long Nazi German relic was discovered sliced into three pieces in a house in northern Poland.
AFP's Francois Becker reports on a new exhibition in Cologne detailing how the Nazis tried to steal Christmas.
Robots killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, India.
Eben Ray: We're going to talk about another fraud of galactic order. Ah, William Lyne is here. Ah, he is a gentleman that has, ah, been there and done that. He's been within the military-industrial complex. He's been within the intelligence complex.
"Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.
"The Argentinean prosecutor who ferreted out Iranian links to Argentina's largest terror attack warned Wednesday of Teheran's growing terror network in Latin America.
The conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal is now so commonly accepted, it hardly seems as though the matter is even open for discussion. But it is.
Islamist anti-Semitism is thoroughly soaked in many of the most inflammatory themes that initially made possible the atrocities of Crystal Night and its horrific aftermath during the Holocaust.
Ikea looks like a model of openness and visibility. From its voluminous warehouse-size stores to its furniture's clean lines, the retailer presents a vision of honesty and total disclosure.
"Even if it is ultimately determined that Nidal Malik HASAN was the sole perpetrator in this mass murder, there are co-conspirators.
The best way to describe the proposed boycott of Israeli academic and research institutions by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim is to label it "outrageous." While Israel, whose science and academic research is far superior to that of Norway, can …
Maybe it's just a matter of ideology. Nazis are statist and believe fealty to the state and party should be paramount in the life of every citizen. Strict adherence to Nazi ideology is expected and deviation is punishable, by death in many cases.
The battle over your home entertainment equipment is heating up again and the time to make your voice heard is now. Hollywood wants the Federal Communications Commission to grant the studios permission to engage in so-called "Selectable Output Control," or SOC for short.
A distillation of every rabid, ignorant, bull-goose crazy talking point from the right, all triggered by Noam Chomsky's comparison of the US to the Weimar Republic and the teabaggers to the then-nascent Nazi Party.
Frain also explains why the view of Pius XII as either "Hitler's Pope", or at the least a moral coward, is utterly baseless.
An exhibition in Berlin that cast light on the Muslim/Nazi collaboration during the holocaust was cancelled for fear of Islam. The publicly funded multicultural center in Berlin, "Werkstatt der Kulturen," is located in a heavily Turkish and Arab neighborhood.
There has been an increase in the power of the radical right wing in England -- "neo-Nazis" who are out to kill black people, Jews and gays.
excerpt: ""....Kitty Werthmann led a workshop called "How to recognize living under Nazis & Communists." Announcing the panel in a column preceding the conference, talk show host Janet Porter gushed how Werthmann's description of Austria in the 1930s is a "mirror to Amer …
ADOLF Hitler may not have died in a bunker after fresh research suggests the skull thought to be the tyrant's was from a woman.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cheapened the memory of the Holocaust in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. He did so twice.
The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events.
PORTLAND, Ore. —– In the last days of her life, Annabel Kitzhaber had a decision to make: she could be the tissue-skinned woman in the hospital with the tubes and the needles, the meds and smells and the squawk of television.
Do people really understand what is going on in our world right now? That language is being used to confuse us? America is the greatest "terrorist," Israeli Jews are the "Nazis," non-Muslim pro-western Brits are called "right wing fascists" because a small number stoo …