Beginning as a volunteer guard unit which acted as Hitler’s personal bodyguards, it eventually grew to become one of the most feared and powerful organisations in Nazi Germany, known for its rampant ...
The fragment, found in the estate of textile archaeologist Schlabow, is set to be returned to France this year.
BERLIN (JTA) — The head of Germany’s Jewish umbrella organization is calling on Germany to review – and possibly cancel – pension payments to former SS members who were injured during ...
BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ,” just one-tenth of Germans describe themselves as confident, with higher ...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Germany has handed over to the Netherlands ... Most of the beneficiaries are SS veterans or their relatives, the NOS broadcaster reported last week. Dozens of Dutchmen served ...
It was 3 March 1945 when American soldiers liberated a concentration camp in Hinzert, Germany, about 80 kilometres from the ...