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35 days ago

Last-known Nazi death camp guard takes his secrets to the grave: 100-year-old former SS officer dies before he could face trial over helping to kill thousands of WWII prisoners

Gregor Formanek, a former SS guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, was accused of aiding and abetting the murder of 3,322 people

58 days ago

Nazi death camp's 'secretary of evil' dies aged 99: Woman fled nursing home and went on the run before finally facing justice for aiding more than 10,000 murders

Irmgard Furchner, who was a secretary to the SS commander of the infamous concentration camp Stutthof, died aged 99, German outlet Bild reports.

60 days ago

‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

When Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he talks to the Colombian novelist abou…

3 months ago

Nazi re-enactors fume over 'difficult' decision to ban portrayal of SS units at 'family friendly' festival after controversy last year - but organisers DON'T expect 'all swastikas to be removed'

Rules of attendance at the 'Spirit of Wartime' event in Nottinghamshire have been changed after participants were allowed to fly Swastika flags and wear uniforms resembling the Waffen SS last year.

4 months ago

Revealed: The SS monsters who played sport and enjoyed film nights while absolving themselves of the industrial slaughter inside Auschwitz - as the world marks 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp

In June 1944 the train carrying 20-year-old Freda Wineman, her family and nearly a thousand other Jews passed under the guardhouse of Auschwitz Birkenau and down a railway line into the camp.

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