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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) attends the reburial ceremony of Ukrainian nationalist leader Andriy Melnyk, who collaborated with the Nazis, at the National Military Memorial Cemetery near Kyiv on May 25, 2026. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP via JTA)
May 27, 2026, 8:48 am
Ukraine reburies Nazi collaborator with state honors, drawing Israeli condemnation
‘Glory to every Ukrainian hero,’ Zelensky, who is Jewish, says of Andriy Melnyk; Yad Vashem ‘deeply troubled’ by event, Foreign Ministry decries ‘ignoring of historical truths’
By Grace Gilson
A squad of German soldiers marches through a street in Paris, France, October 24, 1940, while others walk along looking at the shops. (AP Photo)
January 7, 2026, 10:42 pm
French author sued for libel by her relatives over Nazi ‘collaborator’ family novel
Cecile Desprairies’ 2024 book ‘The Propagandist’ paints her family as collaborationist, but her relatives say novel was ‘conceived as a genuine act of family vengeance’
By Alexandre Marchand
Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for the recording of the three-part 1999 documentary 'Speer und Er' by director Heinrich Breloer. (Bavaria Media)
September 3, 2025, 11:51 pm
Documentary lays bare Nazi propagandist celebrated for her cinema, unpunished for crimes
In his film ‘Riefenstahl’ out in the US Sept. 4, director Andres Veiel mines hidden archives to cut through a gifted auteur revered by Hitler as the epitome of Aryan womanhood
By Jordan Hoffman
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
A man puts a candle by new plaques recently placed near a Polish monument to Jews murdered by their Polish neighbors in the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, July 10, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 3:58 pm
In Polish town where locals burned Jews alive, ‘alternate memorial’ denies complicity
Far-right activist erected history-falsifying plaques at site of 1941 Jedwabne massacre ahead of last week’s commemoration, smearing Jewish victims and exonerating Polish perpetrators
By Shira Li Bartov
An archivist opens a sliding file cabinet where documents, some regarding WWII collaboration, are stored at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 10, 2025. (Aleks Furtula/AP)
January 14, 2025, 9:45 am
Frustration as Dutch online archive names accused Nazi collaborators, without details
Relatives unable to discover more info on probes into Nazi ties without traveling to make in-person request; research group says publication of list ’caused great social unrest’
By Molly Quell
Philippe Pétain sits at his trial in July 1945 in Paris. (Photo by PIGISTE / AFP)
January 1, 2024, 8:04 am
History has confirmed guilt of Vichy leader Petain – so why do some question it?
Regime helped deport 75,000 Jews to Nazi death camps, but as ‘France on Trial’ – a best book of the year by UK media – details, this got barely a mention when its leader went on trial
By Robert Philpot
'Fatherland,' by Burkhard Bilger (Courtesy); and Karl Gonner's undated prisoner of war photo. (Dépôt central des archives de la justice militaire)
October 4, 2023, 4:24 am
The ‘reasonable Nazi’ defended by the French villagers he oversaw
In his new book ‘Fatherland,’ Burkhard Bilger tells about his 1992 discovery that his grandfather had been tried for war crimes in postwar France – but that’s not the whole story
By Robert Philpot
Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski in Tel Aviv, June 6, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
June 9, 2023, 10:53 am
Polish official says don’t compare WWII suffering of Poles, Jews: ‘All were victims’
Poland’s deputy FM Pawel Jablonski, visiting Israel as the two countries look to mend ties, says his compatriots are wrongly painted as perpetrators
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: Nazi troops in front of Amsterdam's Bijenkorf square in 1941. (Public domain)
April 29, 2023, 3:09 am
Dutch archives on 300,000 accused Nazi collaborators to open to the public in 2025
In a country notoriously slow to accept responsibility for mistakes and distance itself from its occupiers, a discussion on collaboration might soon take place in the open
By Jackie Hajdenberg
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a commemoration on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland on April 19, 2023. (Courtesy of the office of the President of the State of Israel)
April 19, 2023, 7:31 pm
Herzog to Polish president: Story of Holocaust must recall evil of Nazis, accomplices
Israeli president appears to reference dispute over WWII narrative in speech as he joins German, Polish counterparts in Warsaw for 80th Ghetto Uprising memorial
By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor
Framed extracts of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine's (portrait) correspondence displayed at the Gallimard gallery during the exhibition titled 'Celine, recovered manuscripts' in Paris, May 3, 2022. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)
May 4, 2022, 11:37 am
Manuscript by famed pro-Nazi French author resurfaces after 78 years
Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s ‘Guerre’ to hit bookstores decades following his abandonment of personal papers as the Allies approached Paris during WWII
By Hugues HONORE
People walk through a street in Mitrovica, Kosovo, Oct. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
February 10, 2022, 9:22 am
After criticism, Kosovo stops renovation of house linked to Nazi collaborator
Culture minister rejects Holocaust denial accusation; Jewish activist says project should go ahead but include exhibit on local Jews killed by the Nazis
By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI
An activist places a sticker honoring Hannah Senesh over a street sign named for Hans Kloepfer, a prominent doctor and writer who welcomed Hitler's annexation of Austria and joined the Nazi party, on November 8, 2021, in Vienna. (Courtesy)
November 9, 2021, 11:39 pm
On eve of Kristallnacht, activists ‘rename’ Vienna streets honoring antisemites
Protest, publicized by the Austrian Union of Jewish Students, sees street signs named for Nazis and SS members pasted over with a temporary homage to resistance leaders
By Yaakov Schwartz
Members of the South African pro-German group the Ossewabrandwag perform their salute in this undated photo from circa WWII. (Courtesy OB Archive, North-West University, South Africa)
October 22, 2021, 4:27 am
How Nazi sympathizers in WWII Cape Town spied on the Allies and evaded justice
In ‘Hitler’s South African Spies,’ Evert Kleynhans uncovers ‘suppressed’ evidence that members of an ultimately ineffective effort to harm Allied ships escaped prosecution
By Rich Tenorio
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