Nazi war criminals

Shira Haas to star in Netflix remake of ‘The Boys from Brazil’

Filming will begin in December in the UK, Germany, Bulgaria, and Spain.

Shira Haas in the Netflix series, 'Bodies.'
A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Buchenwald Memorial allowed to refuse entry to people wearing keffiyehs, court rules

 Herberts Cukurs, the 'Butcher of Riga,' pictured in 1965.

Latvia reopens criminal investigation into 'Butcher of Riga' following condemnation

 Employees handle a box with Nazi-related material that was among several boxes originally confiscated by local authorities when they were shipped to Argentina in 1941, after the boxes were recently discovered by chance in the archives of the Supreme Court of Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Argentina's top court finds 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement


Nazi who spied for US was allowed to avoid trial until his death in 1975

Franz Josef Huber, a top Gestapo officer who helped Adolf Eichmann round up and murder the Jews of Central Europe, was a wanted man for crimes against humanity.

Nazi defendants appear at the Nuremberg Trials

Activist turns anti-Nazi act into commodified digital art

The renegade human rights activist has turned his destructive political art performance into a non-fungible token - a digital piece of art that can be bought and sold.

A screenshot of Prof. Dr. Stanislovas Tomas' video in which he destroys a Nazi collaborator's plaque

A ‘Nazi love story’ about a mass murderer who got away

“The Ratline” tells how both the Catholic Church and the Allies were active in shuttling unrepentant Nazis to new lives in the West;

Otto Wächter, the Nazi governor of Galicia, and his family, 1948.

Amsterdam mayor wants city's museum to return $22m Nazi-looted painting

“Returning this artwork will mean a lot to the victims and is important for acknowledging the injustice perpetrated,” Halsema wrote.

Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019.

Nazi secretary at Stutthof camp charged for role in 10,000 murders

As the woman was under 18 when she served at the camp, she will be charged at a juvenile court.

'Death Gate' at Stutthof Concentration Camp

80 years after Holocaust began, Nazi war criminals still prosecuted

The only issue that will completely end in the near future is that of justice.

Nazi defendants appear at the Nuremberg Trials

Wiesenthal Center annual report notes successes in prosecuting Nazis

In Russia, the government has initiated two Nazi war crimes investigations, marking a major step by Russian authorities since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The main gate to Auschwitz with slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei'

Far-right protesters in Ukraine demand Israel apologize for communism

The far-right activists called on Israel and the Jews to assume responsibility specifically for Holodomor, a famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s.

Activists of the National Corps political party take part in a rally to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera, one of the founders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), in Kiev, Ukraine January 1, 2019.

The Nuremberg Trials - 75 years on

After six years of war, the Allied powers came together to deliver justice on Nazi leaders who had caused the deaths of millions of people.

Nazi defendants appear at the Nuremberg Trials

Holocaust survivors share stories of stolen property in new campaign

WJRO is asking participants to post their stories through videos, photos, statements, or drawings, including #MyPropertyStory and tagging @WJRORestitution.

‘Woman in Gold’ portait by Gustav Klimt.