Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sports jersey is one way for fans to show national pride — but German soccer fans have been banned from customizing theirs with ...

As Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945, some Waffen-SS personnel attempted to conceal their service as they entered captivity ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron stand together in the old church during a visit ...

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 ...

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 ...

(JTA) — A former Nazi SS soldier was charged with denying the Holocaust in Germany. Karl Munter, 96, was indicted in the German state of Lower Saxony on Wednesday for questioning the extent of the ...

A former SS guard dubbed the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” on Tuesday admitted his moral guilt over the mass murder of at least 300,000 Jews at the Nazi death camp, local media reported. In a lengthy ...

The trial of Reinhold Hanning, former SS guard at the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, began February 11. The 94-year-old is accused of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. Hanning ...

A former SS guard who is now 100 years old was due to go on trial in Germany on Thursday, charged with contributing to the deaths of more than 3,000 people in a Nazi concentration camp during World ...

To some German commanders, the Waffen-SS represented determined and capable combat formations. To others, it was a politically favored organization that consumed valuable resources and often accepted ...