On this day in 1936, Nazi Germany's Reichstag (one-party parliament) passed a law giving the Gestapo absolute authority to ...

The massive scope of inhumanity by an authoritarian government should concern us all. The deceitful sign entering Auschwitz, “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work sets you free”), clashes with the constant ...

A literary sequel worth its salt should satisfy two types of readers: those who read the first installment and those who didn’t. Joseph O’Connor’s new novel is one such book. The Dublin-born writer ...

It also was reported that Hitler had named Heinrich Himmler, chief of the German police, the most dreaded man in all Germany, general commissioner for total mobilization of resources. Berlin ...

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most ...

Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...

The leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich, introduced the gas chambers in 1941, an extermination technique tried out in Germany on disabled people. At the Auschwitz ...

just after Germany surrendered on May 8th, 1945, and Stutthof near Gdansk in northern Poland. In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated before they were reached ...

The last camps to be liberated were Theresienstadt, near Prague, just after Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, and Stutthof near Gdansk in northern Poland. - 'Death Marches' - In June 1944, SS leader ...

Part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution ... 1940: Auschwitz camp created - On April 27, Schutzstaffel (SS) leader Heinrich Himmler picks a site of barracks in Oswiecim, southern ...

There were dogs and officers yelling in German “get out, get out ... 1944 -– one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ahead of their demolition, ...