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Historian Johannes Spohr's grandfather, Rudolf Spohr, as an ordnance officer of the German Army High Command shortly before his trip to Crimea, August 1942. (Courtesy/ family collection)
April 15, 2026, 3:44 am
My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes
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
By Robert Philpot
Men's Natural 1936 Berlin Games Olympic Heritage T-Shirt, as sold by the International Olympic Committee (Website screenshot)
February 14, 2026, 4:21 pm
Olympics defends selling shirts commemorating Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Games
Shirts have sold out; Olympic committee acknowledges ‘Nazi propaganda’ at the games but says the ‘historical context is further explained’ at Switzerland museum
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A sign of the Credit Suisse which reads in German as 'part of the UBS group' and displayed on a branch of Swiss banking giant UBS in the resort of St. Moritz on December 20, 2024.(Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
February 3, 2026, 2:53 pm
Hundreds of Nazi-linked accounts discovered at Credit Suisse, US lawmaker says
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
By Oliver Hirt and Ariane Luthi
US Customs and Border Patrol Commander at Large Gregory Bovino speaks during a news conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Brandon Bell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
January 28, 2026, 8:46 am
US Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino decries comparisons of ICE to Gestapo
Trump official, whose long coat was described as ‘Nazi-coded,’ reportedly leaving Minnesota after local man’s death at hands of federal agents
By Grace Gilson
Retiring US ambassador James B. Conant bids farewell to Dr. Hans Globke, right, state secretary in the chancellery and former Nazi official, before leaving to return to the US from the Mehlem railroad station, near the US embassy, in Bonn, Germany, February 19, 1957. (AP Photos/Horst Faas)
December 13, 2025, 2:23 pm
‘Rehabilitated’ postwar West Germany’s government was riddled with Nazis, study reveals
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
By Robert Philpot
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
December 1, 2025, 8:17 am
Argentina had detailed info on Mengele during his decade there, documents show
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
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivors Walter Bingham, 101, center, George Shefi, 94, right, and Paul Alexander, 87, talk as they pose for a photo after an interview at Jerusalem Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2025, ahead the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
November 9, 2025, 9:18 am
Israeli Kristallnacht survivors mark 87th anniversary amid rising global antisemitism
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’
By Melanie Lidman
Ewan Horrocks as Helmuth Hubener holds a sign in a still from 'Truth and Treason.' (Courtesy Angel Studios)
October 29, 2025, 5:29 am
New film revives little-known legacy of Mormon teen executed for opposing Hitler
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
By Rich Tenorio
Michael Smuss in his home. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
October 23, 2025, 10:15 pm
Michael Smuss, last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, dies at 99
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
By CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Melanie Lidman and Kirsten Grieshaber
Argentine Patricia Kadgien (R), daughter of SS financial guru Friedrich Kadgien, one of several high-ranking Nazis to escape to Argentina after the war, attends a hearing after being arrested in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, on September 4, 2025. (AFP)
September 5, 2025, 12:30 am
Argentina charges Nazi’s daughter for concealing art looted from Jewish collectors
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
By AFP
Klaus-Michael Kühne speaks to employees at the headquarters of Kühne + Nagel. (Axel Heimken/picture alliance via Getty Images, JTA)
July 24, 2025, 9:10 am
Hamburg opera house funder has resisted scrutiny of family’s Nazi collaboration
Kühne + Nagel, now chaired by billionaire Klaus-Michael Kühne, collaborated with the Nazis during World War II to transport goods stolen from Jews
By Grace Gilson
American and Canadian flags fly on top of a hill while a US soldier stands guard, overlooking part of the invasion fleet, as troops rush supplies and ammunition ashore during the occupation of Kiska Island, Alaska on October 12, 1943. (AP Photo)
July 15, 2025, 10:17 am
Alaska’s Nazi Creek given less offensive name after 2-year campaign
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
By Grace Gilson
Nazi documentation found in boxes stored at the basement of the Justice Palace, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 11, 2025. (Handout / ARGENTINA'S SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE / AFP)
May 12, 2025, 10:43 am
Nazi material seized by Argentina in World War II found in top court’s basement
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
By Reuters
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial June 22, 1961, in Jerusalem. (Photo by GPO)
May 2, 2025, 6:39 am
Argentina declassifies over 1,800 files on Nazi ‘ratline’ escape routes after WWII
Documents, whose release the Simon Wiesenthal Center pushed for, can now be viewed through the Argentine National Archive
By Grace Gilson
Irmgard Furchner appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)
April 8, 2025, 5:47 am
Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict Irmgard Furchner dies at 99
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
By AFP and ToI Staff
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