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From 'The Eichmann Trial,' a play at Jerusalem's Beit HaAm, on April 27, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 4, 2026, 5:26 am
New drama ‘The Eichmann Trial’ at Jerusalem’s Beit Ha’am takes same stage as actual trial
Through May 4, the portrayal of the 1961 hearing offers a captivating glimpse at the human psyche, along with a history of budding relations between Germany and the Jewish state
By Jessica Steinberg
The flags of Israel and Germany fly in front of the Arrow 3 missile defense system and a radar dome during an event of the German Air Force at the Holzdorf Air Base, eastern Germany, on December 3, 2025. (RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)
December 16, 2025, 11:55 pm
As Germany rearms, Holocaust-begotten ties with Israel take on increasing importance
Delivery of Jerusalem’s Arrow 3 missile defense system to Berlin marks historic reversal, reflecting growing relationship forged by guilt and anchored today in strategic necessity
By Stav Levaton
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
In this file photo taken on August 22, 2019 Jonas Rothe, founder and CEO of Timeride, a company offering virtual reality tours through a still-divided Berlin, poses next to Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
October 26, 2019, 3:21 pm
30 years later, Berlin Wall comes back to life with virtual reality
German startup offering visitors and history buffs an ‘authentic’ and immersive Cold War-era tour of the divided capital
By Deborah Cole
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School shows Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Shachnow, who survived the holocaust as a child and fought in Vietnam as a US Army Green Beret before serving as the top American Army officer in Berlin, died Sept. 27, 2018. He was 83. (U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School via AP)
October 4, 2018, 3:48 am
Sidney Shachnow, Holocaust survivor turned US Army major general, dies at 83
After fighting as Green Beret in Vietnam, he went on to command American forces in what was then West Berlin
By Ben Finley
Berlin dinner party featured in 'Germans & Jews' (First Run Features)
October 17, 2016, 1:32 am
Guess who’s coming to dinner, in Germany
Made by two longtime friends from very different backgrounds, documentary ‘Germans & Jews’ explores — over dinner — how the Holocaust still shapes German life
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Supporters of the Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) take part in a protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her immigration policy on October 3, 2016 in Dresden, eastern Germany. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
October 13, 2016, 6:38 am
Nazi jargon revival causes alarm in Germany
Against the backdrop of an unprecedented wave of Muslim migrants, some protesters and politicians seen using once-taboo nationalist rhetoric
By Hui Min NEO
In this 1938 file photo Heinrich Himmler, second right, chief of secret police, and Dr. Wilhelm Frick, right, and other leading members of the Nazi party march along Koenigliche Platz in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/file)
October 10, 2016, 5:24 pm
Most post-WWII German justice officials were ex-Nazis, study finds
More ministry personnel were members of Hitler’s party in 1950s than during Third Reich, research shows, allowing colleagues to shield each other from justice
By Frank Zeller
Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)
August 18, 2016, 10:30 am
Is new Polish law an attempt to whitewash its citizens’ roles in the Holocaust?
Some experts worry that legislation which criminalizes talk of ‘Polish death camps’ places emphasis on one aspect of World War II history while suppressing country’s dark past
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Memorial "to the gay and lesbian victims of National Socialism" in Cologne, Germany. (Jörg Lenk/Wikipedia/Public Domain)
May 12, 2016, 5:13 am
Germany scraps postwar convictions of gays under Nazi law
50,000 Germans were convicted as homosexuals; ‘We can never completely erase the travesty of justice,’ says justice minister
By AFP
A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo/File)
April 3, 2016, 7:52 pm
Freed from Auschwitz, UK survivors seeking reparations found a wall instead
Newly unveiled archives show British officials exhibited almost no compassion for Holocaust survivor applicants to a £1m. compensation fund jointly administered with West Germany
By Jenni Frazer
In this Nov. 6, 2014 file photo former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher poses for the photographer at his home in Wachtberg, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
April 3, 2016, 4:23 am
Genscher, who pushed unification of Germany, dies at 89
Longest-serving German foreign minister championed detente with Soviets, oversaw failed 1972 bid to rescue Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich
By Geir Moulson
The SS 'tower of death' entrance to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, under which trains of Jewish deportees passed in 1944, when a spur was added to the existing track. The November 2015 photo was taken from outside the camp entrance. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
February 26, 2016, 3:23 pm
Do the words ‘Polish death camps’ defame Poland? And if so, who’s to blame?
As Poland prepares a bill that makes calling Nazi-era death camps ‘Polish’ libelous, a look at the term’s Cold War origins, and the controversy’s impressive staying power
By Matt Lebovic
Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt speaking in Berlin on October 30, 2012. (Thomas Peter/AFP)
November 11, 2015, 12:59 am
Helmut Schmidt, German ex-chancellor, dead aged 96
A Wehrmacht veteran whose grandfather was Jewish, German leader will be remembered for realpolitik, dealing with terrorism
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this 1938 file photo Heinrich Himmler, second right, chief of secret police, and Dr. Wilhelm Frick, right, and other leading members of the Nazi party march along Koenigliche Platz in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/file)
November 4, 2015, 9:08 pm
Most German Interior Ministry staff after WWII were ex-Nazis
Many officials had been in the SS, some served under Himmler, study shows
By AP
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