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#LastSeen: Holocaust researchers appeal for Nazi deportation images

Historians want to collect, analyse, and publish photographic evidence of the forced removal of victims from German towns and cities well before they reached a camp.

Culture news

Spanish museum returns paintings plundered by Nazi forces to Poland

Poland saw much of its cultural patrimony destroyed or looted during the country’s wartime occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Approximately 500,000 items are still missing.

Germany

Former German Nazi camp secretary appeals against conviction

The 97-year-old was found guilty last week of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders.

Germany

Ex Nazi concentration camp secretary guilty of accessory to murders

Former Nazi concentration camp secretary, Irmgard Furchner, 97, has been found guilty in a German court.

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Austria

Street honouring Porsche founder to be renamed amid Nazi link claims

The city council in Linz is expected to formally rename "Porsche Road" next week.

Republic of North Macedonia

North Macedonia bans organisations with names linked to fascism

The new law comes after recent protests against a controversial Bulgarian WWII monarch.

Europe News

Italy: Meloni's deputy minister blasted over 2005 Nazi uniform photo

The photo in question shows Bignami in a Nazi uniform standing next to another man wearing an SS armband at a bachelor party.

France

France remembers its horror of sending 13,000 Jews to Nazi death camps

Eight decades later, France is honouring the victims of two terrifying days in July 1942 with a week of ceremonies surrounding the Vel d’Hiv police roundup.

Germany

Ex-German soldier jailed for planning attack posed as Syrian refugee

Prosecutors had described him as a "far-right terrorist" who had been inspired by extremist ideologies "for several years".

Germany

Nazi camp guard, 101, jailed for 'complicity' in 3,518 murders

Josef Schütz was given a five-year jail term on Tuesday for complicity in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.

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Candles lit as St Petersburg remembers WW2 invasion

STORYLINE: Some 150 volunteers arranged 50-thousand candles in St Petersburg early on Wednesday to commemorate the 81st anniversary of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.

Culture news

Manuscripts of pro-Nazi French author rediscovered after 78 years

'Guerre' (War) a novel written by one of France's most controversial literary figures, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, is set to arrive in bookstores on Thursday, some 78 years after its manuscript disappeared. A new exhibition in Paris aims to explore the mystery behind the rediscovered manuscripts.

Russia

Russia accuses Israel of supporting neo-Nazism in Ukraine

The comments come just one day after Sergei Lavrov claimed Adolf Hitler had "Jewish blood".

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Military vehicles roll through Moscow city center ahead of V-Day parade rehearsal

On Thursday evening, the centre of Moscow was filled with a wide array of military vehicles, which were seen driving toward Red Square for the first night training of the traditional Victory Day parade, which will be held on May 9th.

The Cube

Foreign student arrested in Russia on 'Nazism' charges for twerking

Investigators say the 21-year-old performed an "obscene dance" in front of a war memorial in Khanty-Mansiysk.

Sport

Investigation launched into Russian karter's Nazi-style salute

Motor sport's governing body confirmed that it was probing Artem Severiukhin's "unacceptable conduct".

Slovakia

Slovakian far-right leader loses mandate as MP over neo-Nazi symbols

Marian Kotleba will lose his parliament seat as an MP of the Our Slovakia People's Party.

Bulgaria

Bulgarian MEP fined for perceived Nazi salute in European Parliament

President Roberta Metsola said his gesture had "damaged the dignity and reputation" of the Parliament.

Culture news

Dutch publisher pulls Anne Frank betrayal book amid critique

In a 69-page written “refutation,” six historians and academics describe the cold case team’s findings as “a shaky house of cards.”

Germany

Germany to give extra €647 million to support Holocaust survivors

Campaigners say the additional funds are the largest ever allocated for welfare services in a single year.