The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/nazis/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:11:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Nazis | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/nazis/ 32 32 My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes https://www.timesofisrael.com/my-grandfather-the-nazi-a-german-historian-helps-families-unravel-forebears-crimes/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:44:30 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3800907 After discovering his own patriarch's role in the Holocaust, scholar Johannes Spohr offers workshops that confront uncomfortably specific truths amid a wider culture of remembrance

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]]> Olympics defends selling shirts commemorating Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Games https://www.timesofisrael.com/olympics-defends-selling-shirts-commemorating-hitlers-1936-berlin-games/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:21:47 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3754374 Shirts have sold out; Olympic committee acknowledges 'Nazi propaganda' at the games but says the 'historical context is further explained' at Switzerland museum

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]]> Hundreds of Nazi-linked accounts discovered at Credit Suisse, US lawmaker says https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-nazi-linked-accounts-discovered-at-credit-suisse-us-lawmaker-says/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:53:49 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3747242 Wartime accounts for the German Foreign Office, a German arms manufacturer and the German Red Cross discovered, as well as new details on scheme to help Nazis flee to Argentina

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]]> US Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino decries comparisons of ICE to Gestapo https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-border-patrol-commander-gregory-bovino-decries-comparisons-of-ice-to-gestapo/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:46:35 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3743154 Trump official, whose long coat was described as 'Nazi-coded,' reportedly leaving Minnesota after local man's death at hands of federal agents

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]]> ‘Rehabilitated’ postwar West Germany’s government was riddled with Nazis, study reveals https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-reveals-how-rehabilitated-postwar-west-germanys-government-was-riddled-with-nazis/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:23:54 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3672067 Research by German scholars lifts the lid on Third Reich officials’ lingering influence as a recovering country desperate for experienced administrators looked the other way

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]]> Argentina had detailed info on Mengele during his decade there, documents show https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-had-detailed-info-on-mengele-during-his-stay-in-country-documents-show/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:17:01 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?post_type=liveblog_entry&p=3701758 Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death' felt so comfortable in South American country that he began to use his real name in 1956, and requested his formal identification papers be reissued

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]]> Israeli Kristallnacht survivors mark 87th anniversary amid rising global antisemitism https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kristallnacht-survivors-mark-87th-anniversary-amid-rising-global-antisemitism/ Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:18:41 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3684096 Survivors see parallels between today and period ahead of Holocaust: 'We live in an era equivalent to 1938, where synagogues are burned, and people in the street are attacked'

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]]> New film revives little-known legacy of Mormon teen executed for opposing Hitler https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-revives-little-known-legacy-of-mormon-teen-executed-for-opposing-hitler/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:29:23 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3672918 Now in US theaters, 'Truth and Treason' tells story of Helmuth Hubener, a German whose religious convictions inspired him to speak truth to power even if it meant risking his life

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]]> Michael Smuss, last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, dies at 99 https://www.timesofisrael.com/last-surviving-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-fighter-michael-smuss-dies-at-99/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:15:49 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3672481 While working to repair Nazi helmets, Smuss stole material for Jewish resistance needed to make Molotov cocktails; he survived the war and moved to US, then to Israel

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]]> Argentina charges Nazi’s daughter for concealing art looted from Jewish collectors https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-charges-nazis-daughter-for-concealing-art-looted-from-jewish-collectors/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:30:44 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3634516 Friedrich Kadgien's daughter and her husband are charged; painting by Italian baroque artist was photographed in their home after disappearing 80 years ago, later handed over

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]]> Hamburg opera house funder has resisted scrutiny of family’s Nazi collaboration https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamburg-opera-house-funder-has-resisted-scrutiny-of-familys-nazi-collaboration/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:10:25 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3605104 Kühne + Nagel, now chaired by billionaire Klaus-Michael Kühne, collaborated with the Nazis during World War II to transport goods stolen from Jews

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]]> Alaska’s Nazi Creek given less offensive name after 2-year campaign https://www.timesofisrael.com/alaskas-nazi-creek-given-less-offensive-name-after-2-year-campaign/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:17:54 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3598400 Small waterway, named in line with alphabetical scheme when US recaptured Kiska Island from Japanese, now called Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, or 'gizzard creek' in local Indigenous language

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]]> Nazi material seized by Argentina in World War II found in top court’s basement https://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-material-seized-by-argentina-in-world-war-ii-found-in-top-courts-basement/ Mon, 12 May 2025 07:43:57 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3546875 Postcards, photographs and propaganda material that arrived on Japanese ship in 1941 sparked concerns among authorities that the items could affect Argentina's wartime neutrality

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]]> Argentina declassifies over 1,800 files on Nazi ‘ratline’ escape routes after WWII https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-declassifies-over-1800-files-on-nazi-ratline-escape-routes-after-wwii/ Fri, 02 May 2025 03:39:16 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3539984 Documents, whose release the Simon Wiesenthal Center pushed for, can now be viewed through the Argentine National Archive

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]]> Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict Irmgard Furchner dies at 99 https://www.timesofisrael.com/germanys-likely-last-holocaust-convict-irmgard-furchner-dies-at-99/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:47:08 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3520474&preview=true&preview_id=3520474 The former Nazi secretary was handed a two-year suspended sentence in 2022 for complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp in Poland

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