Auschwitz was established in 1940 when Nazi Germany opened a new camp complex in Oświęcim in southern Poland to hold prisoners. What began as a political prison of Polish nationals evolved into ...

OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — The Soviet Red Army troops who arrived here on Jan. 27, 1945, helped uncover one of the greatest atrocities ever committed by — and against — humankind. Inside the ...

A bearded neo-Nazi thrown behind bars in Germany for inciting hatred has legally changed his name and gender in an apparent bid to be transferred to a women’s prison — because he’s afraid of ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in modern-day Oświęcim, Poland. The Nazis had murdered more than 1 million people there ...

In Germany, the AfD is the second-strongest party, with support of around 20 percent in pre-election polls. The next German government wants to double or triple defence spending. All the ...

Boynton Beach man escaped Nazi Germany — with help from a future U.S. president Share this: ... 80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim ...

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany ... According to the 2023 microcensus, a third of the German population, almost 25 million people, are immigrants or their descendants, like me.

A crowd gathers to witness thousands of books, considered to be “un-German,” burn in Opera Square in Berlin, Germany, during the Buecherverbrennung book burnings on May 10, 1933. (AP Photo) NEW YORK ...

Germany has spent decades reckoning with its Nazi history and the Holocaust. But in recent years, far-right extremism and violent plots, especially against Jews, Muslims and immigrants, have been ...