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 ...

The largest camp in the entire system of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where more than 1 million people ...

President Trump's proposal for a mass relocation of Palestinians away from Gaza recalls the Third Reich's "Madagascar Plan." ...

Hundreds of Finns fought with the German Waffen-SS in Ukraine during World War II. New research shows that many of them were convinced Nazis and may have committed atrocities. The finding has ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

just after Germany surrendered on 8 May, 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 by ...