November 17, 2009, 06:10 PM
SS MASSACRE
German authorities have charged a 90-year-old man with the murder of 58 Jewish forced laborers in 1945 after a university student researching the massacre discovered one of the perpetrators was still alive. more...
November 13, 2009, 05:32 PM
SWASTIKAS AND TINSEL
Swastika Christmas tree ornaments, "Germanic" cookies and made-up traditions: A new exhibition highlights how the Nazis tried to take Christ out of Christmas. But their attempts to hijack a festival that began with the birth of a Jewish child weren't entirely successful. By David Gordon Smith more...
October 08, 2009, 04:10 PM
'AN OUTSTRETCHED HAND FOR THE FUTURE'
The German town of Dachau plans to become a sister city with Rosh Haayin in Israel as a gesture of reconciliation. But Israeli Holocaust survivors are outraged that a town which was the location of a Nazi concentration camp could have a sister city in the Jewish state. more...
October 08, 2009, 12:53 PM
SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN
The political scientist Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has never been one to shy away from controversy. In his new book, he argues that state leaders who propagate genocide should be killed outright. SPIEGEL spoke with him about the political tool of mass murder, Germany's reaction to his first book about the Holocaust, and the bankruptcy of international law. more...
October 01, 2009, 04:43 PM
PORSCHE'S PAST
Officially, history began for Porsche in 1950. But the company existed before that as a supplier for Hitler's war machine. New research suggests that the company benefited much more from its Nazi ties than it has admitted to. By Nils Klawitter more...
September 14, 2009, 03:02 PM
THE DEMJANJUK CASE
A crucial piece of evidence in the trial of suspected concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk was re-examined by a Munich court on Monday in the run-up to what could be the last major Nazi war crimes trial. more...
September 08, 2009, 02:50 PM
LAST WITNESSES OF THE HOLOCAUST
A French priest and his team are searching in Ukraine for the last witnesses of the Holocaust. They have already found hundreds of mass graves of Jews murdered by the Nazis. But time is running out. By John Goetz and Wiebke Hollersen more...
September 04, 2009, 03:29 PM
REVENGE ON ETHNIC GERMANS
More than six decades after the end of World War II, long-suppressed information about a massacre of around 2,000 Sudeten Germans in June 1945 is dividing the Czech town of Postoloprty. Supporters of a memorial to the incident are clashing with those who want to forget all about the murders. By Hans-Ulrich Stoldt more...
September 02, 2009, 03:52 PM
THE WORLD FROM BERLIN
Russian President Vladimir Putin helped ease tensions with Poland by giving a conciliatory speech at Tuesday's ceremony in Gdansk to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, German commentators said. The event had been overshadowed by a dispute between Russia and Poland over the causes of the war and Stalin's crimes. more...
September 02, 2009, 12:08 PM
THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR II
In the years leading up to World War II, Britain and France underestimated just how determined Adolf Hitler was in his lust for conquest. The failure of Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement meant war was inevitable. By Klaus Wiegrefe more...
