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May 6, 2013
10:57 pm

The Auschwitz concentration camp (photo credit: Shutterstock)

Alleged Auschwitz death camp guard arrested

German man, deported from US for lying about Nazi past, held over ‘compelling evidence’ he was involved in war crimes

By David Rising

March 12, 2013
8:44 pm

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, pictured in Berlin in 2010, fought for the German army despite coming from an anti-Nazi family. (Henning Schacht/AP)

Last member of Hitler assassination plot dies at 90

Then 22, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist was prepared to wear a suicide vest before the plotters changed their plans

By David Rising

January 30, 2013
4:49 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks as she opens the exhibition 'Berlin 1933 - the way to despotism' at the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Germany marks 80th anniversary of Hitler’s ascent

Nazis’ rise was made possible due to the cooperation of ‘the elite of German society,’ Angela Merkel says

By David Rising

December 28, 2012
1:27 pm

Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the selection platform at Auschwitz camp in Birkenau, Poland, in 1944. (Photo credit: AP/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

WWII-era papers show suspected Nazi living in US was guard at death camp

Documents prove Philadelphian Johann Breyer served at Auschwitz, and not at smaller work camp where he claims he was guard

By David Rising and Matt Moore and Randy Herschaft

November 26, 2012
10:03 pm

Former member of the Nazis' Waffen SS, Siert Bruins (photo credit: CC-BY-Suyk, Koen / Anefo, Wikimedia Commons)

91-year-old German charged with Nazi crimes

Siert Bruins, who already served time for murdering two Jews during WWII, is accused of slaying a Dutch resistance fighter

By David Rising

November 16, 2012
10:01 am

Stuart E. Eizenstat, the chief negotiator of the Jewish Claims Conference, walks through the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin on Thursday. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Germany increases reparations for Holocaust survivors

In a ceremony at Berlin’s Jewish Museum, finance minister announces help for a rapidly aging, often poverty-stricken population

By David Rising

October 3, 2012
12:12 pm

This sculpture of a woman and her baby killed by Nazi soldiers commemorates the massacre in the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on August 12, 1944 (photo credit: CC-BY-SA-3.0, by Cesar, Wikimedia Commons)

Germany drops investigation into Nazi massacre in Italy

Stuttgart court rules insufficient evidence to extradite former SS officers convicted and sentenced by Italian military court

By David Rising

September 23, 2012
1:30 pm

The home of Johann "Hans" Breyer, center, is seen in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Matt Rourke)

Philadelphia man accused of being SS Auschwitz guard

Johann “Hans” Breyer under investigation by Germany after failed attempts by the US Department of Justice to have him stripped of US citizenship and deported

By David Rising and Matt Moore and Randy Herschaft

August 23, 2012
6:39 pm

Police in plain clothes load into a vehicle items which they found in an apartment-sharing community of alleged neo-Nazis in Dortmund, Germany, Wednesday (AP/dapd, Sascha Schuermann)

Germany cracks down on neo-Nazis

Authorities raid 146 buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia

By David Rising

May 22, 2012
6:40 pm

A crop of a Der Spiegel cover. (photo credit: public domain)

Security beefed up at German magazine after threat

Der Spiegel targeted because of alleged links to Jews

By David Rising

March 17, 2012
4:58 pm

Peter Sachs holds up a book with some of his father, Hans Sachs', favorite posters. (photo credit: AP/Chris O'Meara)

Nazi-seized art ordered returned to American man

Ruling ends seven years of legal battles over a vast collection worth millions dating back to the late 19th century

By David Rising

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: David Rising

Alleged Auschwitz death camp guard arrested

German man, deported from US for lying about Nazi past, held over ‘compelling evidence’ he was involved in war crimes

Last member of Hitler assassination plot dies at 90

Then 22, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist was prepared to wear a suicide vest before the plotters changed their plans

Germany marks 80th anniversary of Hitler’s ascent

Nazis’ rise was made possible due to the cooperation of ‘the elite of German society,’ Angela Merkel says

WWII-era papers show suspected Nazi living in US was guard at death camp

Documents prove Philadelphian Johann Breyer served at Auschwitz, and not at smaller work camp where he claims he was guard

91-year-old German charged with Nazi crimes

Siert Bruins, who already served time for murdering two Jews during WWII, is accused of slaying a Dutch resistance fighter

Germany increases reparations for Holocaust survivors

In a ceremony at Berlin’s Jewish Museum, finance minister announces help for a rapidly aging, often poverty-stricken population

Germany drops investigation into Nazi massacre in Italy

Stuttgart court rules insufficient evidence to extradite former SS officers convicted and sentenced by Italian military court

Philadelphia man accused of being SS Auschwitz guard

Johann “Hans” Breyer under investigation by Germany after failed attempts by the US Department of Justice to have him stripped of US citizenship and deported

Germany cracks down on neo-Nazis

Authorities raid 146 buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia

Security beefed up at German magazine after threat

Der Spiegel targeted because of alleged links to Jews

Nazi-seized art ordered returned to American man

Ruling ends seven years of legal battles over a vast collection worth millions dating back to the late 19th century

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