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 ...

I cannot imagine a more symbolic form of justice... than turning what was once a breeding ground for evil into a space that ...

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention.

Death Marches' - In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated before they were reached by Allied troops, with prisoners to be transferred to other camps. SS officers ...

About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was ...

In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated ... mid-1944 and 60,000 emaciated prisoners forced onto "Death Marches" to other camps. When the Soviets arrived on ...

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...

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 Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau ... 1940: Auschwitz camp created - On April 27, Schutzstaffel (SS) leader Heinrich Himmler picks a site of barracks in Oswiecim, southern Poland, which ...

In June 1944, SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered some camps to be evacuated before they ... was gradually dismantled from mid-1944 and 60,000 emaciated prisoners forced onto "Death Marches" to other ...

The legal struts of these principles were forged in the Allied-run Nuremberg trials of surviving Nazis, including international law and human rights. Germany’s postwar Basic Law or constitution ...