Nazism

A former Nazi concentration camp guard has been charged by German prosecutors with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder.

OSWIECIM, Poland — “I really thought it would be my last journey… I weighed 32 kilos [70 pounds].” Three quarters of a century have passed but all those years cannot dim the memories of Esther Senot as she recalls the horrors of Auschwitz.

Left-wing pop star Cher compared President Donald Trump’s administration to the “Third Reich” Tuesday and warned that Trump might usher in the end of the world.

The reclusive German owners of a holding company that includes Krispy Kreme and Panera Bread said Monday they will donate $11 million to charity after their family’s Nazi past was uncovered.

Rafi Eitan, one of the lead agents who captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, has died. He was 92.

More than 70 years after the end of World World II, one of Germany’s richest families has admitted to its dark links with Adolf Hitler’s regime.

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned an attack on a Holocaust memorial in the French city of Strasbourg.

NEW YORK (AP) — A crowd of 20,000 gives the Nazi salute as swastikas flank a giant portrait of George Washington.

The Swedish embassy in Hungary has protested “personal attacks” from Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen toward a Swedish minister who compared the country’s new family policy to 1930’s Germany.

Jerusalem — Israeli Immigration Minister Yoav Gallant called Tuesday on French Jews to “come home” to Israel following the anti-Semitic vandalism of a cemetery in eastern France.

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the Paris Holocaust Memorial on Tuesday as symbolic gatherings are held across France to denounce the rising number of antisemitic attacks that have shaken the country.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister says his government will allocate the necessary funds to complete the long-promised establishment of a museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans.

WARSAW, Poland — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence paid homage Thursday to the suffering of the Jewish and Polish people under German occupation during World War II with visits to memorials honoring their suffering and heroism.

A selection of paintings allegedly crafted by Adolf Hitler have failed to attract any bids at auction in Germany.

TEL AVIV – Thirty-one artworks said to have been painted by Adolf Hitler will be auctioned for sale on Saturday in Nuremberg, with the highest starting price set at more than $50,000. 

One in 20 UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place, a survey reveals, while one in 12 believes the scale has been exaggerated.

WARSAW, Poland — Former prisoners of Auschwitz have placed flowers at an execution wall at the former Nazi German death camp on the 74th anniversary of the camp’s liberation and what is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

A team of Israeli divers plan to start searching the Danube River in Hungary this week in an attempt to recover the remains of Jews killed on the banks of the waterway during the Holocaust.

BERLIN — Germany on Tuesday returned a painting looted by the Nazis to the heirs of French Jewish politician and resistance leader Georges Mandel.

Pope Francis compared today’s emergence of populist and nationalist movements to the days of Nazi Germany in an address to a group of diplomats accredited to the Holy See Monday.

JERUSALEM — Simcha Rotem, the last known Jewish fighter from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, has died. He was 94.

Swedish public broadcaster SVT has been criticised for not challenging a guest on one of its programmes who compared pro-life Christians who have attacked or killed abortion doctors to Islamic State fighters and Nazi Germany.

BERLIN — Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Monday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at Israel and compared it to Nazi Germany, accusing the Jewish state of “trying to erase the traces of the Islamic heritage in Jerusalem for the last 50 years.”

Jewish headstones in a cemetery near Strasbourg were found to be daubed with Nazi graffiti hours before an Islamic terrorist opened fire at a Christmas market in the eastern France city.

A 95-year-old man has been charged with more than 36,000 counts of being an accessory to murder on allegations that he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Mauthausen concentration camp, Berlin prosecutors said Friday.

TEL AVIV – Germany is taking far too long returning works of art confiscated by the Nazis to their rightful owners and not doing enough to combat a surge in antisemitism in recent years, the head of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder said Sunday. 

A handwritten letter written by Albert Einstein warning of the dangers of growing nationalism and anti-Semitism years before the Nazis rose to power has been sold for nearly $40,000.

Representatives of the Netherlands’ ruling party have asked the capital city’s government to explain why it allows antisemitic and anti-Israel incitement at a monument for victims of Nazism.

MÜNSTER (GERMANY) – A former guard charged with complicity in mass murder at a Nazi concentration camp will testify at his trial in Germany on Tuesday, making a rare statement in one of the last cases of its kind.