Adidas has banned Germany football fans from personalising shirts with the number 44 amid concerns it resembles the symbol used by World War Two-era Nazi SS units. The Nazi party’s Schutzstaffel group ...

BERLIN – Attorneys representing dozens of Auschwitz survivors and their relatives say German justice moved too slowly in bringing to trial a former SS sergeant who served at the death camp. In closing ...

A sports jersey is one way for fans to show national pride — but German soccer fans have been banned from customizing theirs with the number 44 because of a resemblance to the lightning bolts symbol ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron stand together in the old church during a visit to the martyred village of Oradour-sur-Glane as they commemorate the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — A 92-year-old former SS ...

BERLIN – German authorities say no former Nazi SS soldiers are receiving disability pensions in Belgium, responding to concerns raised by lawmakers there. The Labor Ministry said Wednesday that 18 ...

Some of the recipients, who Berlin has declined to identify for years, include suspected war criminals and possibly Auschwitz guards. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Germany has handed over to the Netherlands a ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp, The Associated Press has learned ...

German soldiers have been ordered to rip the labels on their uniforms off after they were mistakenly issued ones marked with the unfortunate initials “SS.” The ministry recently distributed about ...

West Germany has put on trial a former SS official charged with complicity in the mass murders of Jews at the Majdanek death camp. In a separate development, West Germany said Tuesday that there was ...