Freeing the Prisoners Two Soldiers Recall the Liberation of Dachau and Auschwitz Seventy-five years ago, Auschwitz was liberated, with Dachau to follow a couple of months later. Here, a Soviet soldier and an American soldier recall the moment they first set eyes on the camps. By Susanne Beyer, Christian Esch und René Pfister
German Foreign Minister on the Legacy of the Holocaust "For A Long Time Now, Words Have Not Been Enough" Speeches and warnings are insufficient when it comes to anti-Semitism in Germany and Europe. We need concrete programs to counter the hatred of Jews, including better education and harsher penalties. An Op-Ed by Heiko Maas
The Death of Marie Sophie Hingst Why It Was Right to Report on Her Lies In June, I wrote an article exposing fabrications in Marie Sophie Hingst's blog about Jewish family members who allegedly died in the Holocaust. In mid-July, she was found dead in her apartment. Now, I am grappling with the question of whether my reporting was necessary. Von Martin Doerry
'Literature, Not Journalism' The Historian Who Invented 22 Holocaust Victims A German blogger living in Dublin and pretending to be Jewish spread fictitious stories about her family's Holocaust history, even submitting false claims to the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem. But it was all made up. Von Martin Doerry
Saving a Memorial The Immense Challenge of Preserving Auschwitz Conservators at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial are doing all they can to preserve artifacts left behind by those murdered at the camp in the Holocaust. Structures, too, need refurbishment. But the goal of authenticity is a difficult one to reach. Von Martin Doerry
Facing Up to Anti-Semitism 'We Will Win Because History Is On Our Side' Historian Deborah Lipstadt exposed author David Irving for being a Holocaust denier in 1993. Now, she warns of the growth of what she calls "softcore" anti-Semitism. Trump and his kind, she says, are even more dangerous than those who openly agitate against Jews. Von Annette Großbongardt
A Lost Childhood To Auschwitz and Back The Germans stole Josef Salomonovic's childhood, but his mother wouldn't let him die -- neither in the Lodz ghetto nor in Auschwitz. This summer, he returned to the place where he was saved. Von Takis Würger
Balky Bavarians US Congress Demands Action on Nazi Looted Art Are artworks looted by the Nazis from Jewish collectors still hanging in Bavarian museums? Twenty-nine members of the US Congress think so, and have written a letter to the German state demanding that officials stop dragging their feet on restitution. Von Ulrike Knöfel
Interview with a Sobibór Survivor 'The Best Moment of My Life' In an interview, 84 year old Sobibór survivor Philip Bialowitz discusses the importance of the recent discovery of the death camp's gas chambers and his risky escape from the Nazis in 1943. Von Claus Hecking
A Voice for the Dead Recovering the Lost History of Sobibór Henchman with the Nazi SS sought to cover up the mass murder that occurred at the Sobibór concentration camp in eastern Poland. Archeologists recently uncovered the site's hidden gas chambers and important artifacts that shed light on the victims. Von Claus Hecking
Interview with an Auschwitz Guard 'I Do Not Feel Like a Criminal' As a young man, Jakob W. worked in the watchtowers of Auschwitz. Charges against him were recently dropped, but he described to SPIEGEL what it was like to be a cog in the Nazis' horrific machinery of death. Von Felix Bohr, Cordula Meyer und Klaus Wiegrefe
The Auschwitz Files Why the Last SS Guards Will Go Unpunished In February, German prosecutors conducted a wave of raids targeting former SS concentration camp guards. It was hoped the proceedings could help make up for decades of inaction. Instead, they will likely mark the latest chapter in the German judiciary's shameful approach to the Holocaust. Von Klaus Wiegrefe
War Crimes Investigations 'We Don't Pursue Nazis, We Pursue Murderers' German prosecutors are currently looking in to pressing charges against several men believed to have been accomplices to murder at Auschwitz. Some in Germany are asking if justice can still be served almost 70 years after the war. Von Benjamin Schulz
Art Dealer to the Führer Hildebrand Gurlitt's Deep Nazi Ties Hildebrand Gurlitt, the man who assembled the astounding art collection recently discovered in a Munich apartment, was more deeply involved in the trade of looted artworks than had been previously assumed. He also profited from Nazi injustices after the war.
'Justice Delayed' A Jewish Family's Fight to Reclaim Its Land A German-American lawyer and his family have been fighting for over two decades to reclaim lucrative properties lost under the Nazi regime. But he continues to face legal hurdles in trying to restore their legacy. Von Steffen Winter
Nazi Scandal Gestapo Chief Reportedly Buried in Jewish Cemetery As head of the feared Gestapo secret police, Heinrich Müller perpetrated some of the worst crimes of the Nazi regime. His fate was unconfirmed -- but now a newspaper claims he was buried in a Berlin Jewish cemetery in 1945.
The Exception How Denmark Saved Its Jews from the Nazis Denmark was the only European country to save almost all of its Jewish residents from the Holocaust. After being tipped off about imminent roundups by prominent Nazis, resisters evacuated the country's 7,000 Jews to Sweden by boat. A new book examines this historical anomaly. Von Gerhard Spörl
Auschwitz Trial Late Case Raises Questions about Justice System Prosecutors claim 93-year-old former Auschwitz worker Hans Lipschis is complicit in the murder of thousands of people. The charges raise questions about how to interpret guilt in the Holocaust, as well as why the German justice system waited so long to pursue such cases. Von Felix Bohr
Painful Past German President Visits Nazi Massacre Site President Joachim Gauck on Wednesday became the first German head of state to visit the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane, the site of a gruesome massacre by the Waffen SS in 1944. It was an emotional visit with heavy significance for French-German relations. Von Florian Gathmann
Late Justice Germany to Prosecute 30 Auschwitz Guards Germany's top official for investigating Nazi war crimes announced on Tuesday he has recommended 30 suspected former Auschwitz guards be prosecuted for accessory to murder.