As Berlin burned, Germany’s elite SS divisions—Totenkopf, Das Reich, and others—were reduced to shadows of their former strength. In desperation, the Nazis deployed foreign SS troops and teenage ...

Air Force Technical Sergeant Thomas J. Walker was recently married and had a month-old child waiting for him at home when his ...

On December 26, 1952, Boxing Day, 7 convicted Dutch Waffen-SS soldiers and war criminals managed to escape from a Dutch prison in Breda. They received help from the outside and managed to cross the ...

For more than eight decades, one of the Holocaust's most haunting images remained shrouded in mystery. The photograph shows a Nazi soldier pointing a pistol at the head of a Jewish man kneeling beside ...

A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne. But the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in Viipuri, Finland, ...

This list is part of an ongoing investigative project the Forward first published in January 2021 documenting hundreds of monuments around the world that honor people involved in the Holocaust. We are ...

London’s Max Brose Drive is the only known eponym to a Nazi Party member in the entire British Commonwealth, which includes ...