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German prosecutors investigate alleged 105-year-old former-Nazi PoW camp guard over WWII crimes

Germany hasn't had a statute of limitations for murder or accessory to murder since 1979, allowing the prosecution of Nazi crimes from WWII.

 BARRACKS AT the Stutthof concentration camp, photographed after its liberation.
Members of the National Guard stand near the World War II Memorial, after the pool was reportedly vandalized with soap and graffiti, in Washington, DC, US, August 13, 2026.

US World War Two memorial vandalized with soap, graffiti, government vows to find perpetrator

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos.

Ethiopia, US reinforce commitment to partner on cross-sectional issues - opinion

AN AI-generated political cartoon depicting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at court with anti-Israel protesters in the background alongside the US Founding Fathers.

New York must heed the warning signs before we ask, 'How did this happen?' - opinion


French town that saved Jews in WWII recently elected antisemtic mayor

He has been convicted of Holocaust denial or minimization by a French court and a German court for calling the gas chambers “a detail” of World War II.

Romain Lopez won the mayoral race in Moissac with 62% of the vote, easily breaking a string of left-wing mayors in the French town dating back to World War II.

‘Spanish Schindler,’ who saved over 5,000 Jews during WWII, given tribute

It is believed that in the last seven months of 1944, Briz issued forged Spanish documents to 5,200 Jews.

Ambassadeur Sanz-Briz

Evidence of ‘Second Japanese Schindler’ found in US

Saburo Nei (1902-92), who was Japan's acting consul-general in Vladivostok, is believed to have granted visas to Jews during the war.

Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, known as "Japanese Oskar Schindler."

Red Army veterans commemorate VE Day with IFCJ and Matav

VE Day marks the day the Soviet Union’s Red Army defeated Nazi Germany.

Red Army veteran Israel Berber

From the Outside Looking In: a selective memoir by Asher Weill

This is very readable memoir which includes many photographs of the multi-faceted aspects of his personal and working life

A portrait of Asher Weill

Former Nazi concentration camp guard to go on trial in Hamburg

Bruno Dey, 93, is accused of accessory in the murders of 5,230 prisoners between 1944 and 1945 in the Stutthof death camp, in what is now Poland.

Guard tower at Stutthof concentration camp

Visiting D-Day beaches: The morning of liberty

Seventy-five years later, June 8, 2019, I stood and gazed at that very same beach and watched the calm, still waters of the English Channel wash up onto the peaceful shore.

MORE THAN 9,000 graves fill the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France

Bomb from the second World War defused in Frankfurt, 16,000 evacuated

The bomb, found close to the headquarters of the European Central bank, was unearthed on a construction site at the end of June and weighed 500kg.

The Frankfurt skyline

Audrey Hepburn fought the Nazis as a teen, according to new book

The book features never-before-published archival photographs, diaries and other records that add a new chapter to the story of a woman who was beloved by so many.

An artist puts finishing touches to a wax figure of actress Audrey Hepburn during a photo opportunity, a day before the opening of Madame Tussauds' Japan exhibition, in Tokyo September 27, 2011

Dutch rail company to pay Holocaust survivors compensation

NS reportedly earned millions of dollars from the Nazis for its work in transporting Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust.

A monument at former Nazi transition-camp Westerbork in the Netherlands .