David Rising

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel in Brussels on June 28, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)

June 28, 2018, 3:12 pm

EU leaders seek ways to halt migrants amid political turmoil

Germany's Merkel warns migration crisis 'could determine the fate of the European Union'

By LORNE COOK and David Rising

Photo taken from the body of a dead German officer killed in Russia, showing a Nazi firing squad shooting Jews in the back as they sit beside their own mass grave, in Babi Yar, Kiev, 1942. (AP Photo, file)

June 7, 2018, 4:59 am

Nazi death squads are focus of latest war crime cases in Germany

Prosecutors investigating suspected former member of the 'Einsatzgruppen' mobile killing squads

By David Rising

Germans demonstrate against "hate and racism in the Bundestag lower house of parliament" to protest against the far-right party "Alternative fuer Deutschland" (Alternative for Germany) AfD that will be in the parliament, in Berlin on October 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STEFFI LOOS)

May 23, 2018, 4:22 pm

Berlin clubs join protest against far-right rally

Techno clubs along march route to blast AfD rally-goers with loud music; 13 other counter-demonstrations planned around German capital

By David Rising

Photo provided by Berlin police Friday, April 20, 2018 shows the bomb squad of the state police Berlin posing behind a bomb from WWII that was found in central Berlin and is planned to be defused on Friday. (Polizei Berlin via AP)

April 21, 2018, 1:00 am

WWII bomb defused in Berlin after large evacuation in city center

Authorities shut down main train station, clear thousands of people from area as they treat unexploded ordnance found during recent construction work

By David Rising

Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch delivers her speech during a remembrance session of the German parliament to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, in Berlin, Germany, January 31, 2018. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

January 31, 2018, 6:06 pm

Holocaust survivor addresses German lawmakers at parliament

Anti-migrant nationalist party doesn't applaud Anita Lasker-Wallfisch's praise of Merkel's policies, but joins standing ovation after she warns against repeating past

By David Rising

Former SS sergeant Oskar Groening looks up, as he listens to the verdict of his trial at a court in Lueneburg, Germany, on July 15, 2015. (Tobias Schwarz/Pool Photo via AP, File)

January 15, 2018, 8:09 pm

Convicted Auschwitz guard bids for clemency to avoid prison

96-year-old Oskar Groening, the 'accountant of Auschwitz,' was convicted in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews

By David Rising

Peter Hirschmann holds a photograph of his childhood home in his current home in Maplewood, New Jersey, June 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

October 26, 2017, 4:55 am

German woman writes apology to US man who lost home to Nazis

Discovering her house once belonged to a Jewish family who fled persecution, Doris Schott-Neuse took it upon herself to find the still living-son and implore him for forgiveness

By Joseph B. Frederick and David Rising

A 1944 file photo of part of the Babi Yar ravine at the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine where the advancing Red Army unearthed the bodies of 14,000 civilians killed by fleeing Nazis. (AP)

September 28, 2017, 5:31 pm

Germany investigating 2 former SS death squad members

Kurt Gosdek, 94 and Herbert Wahler, 95, say they are innocent of crimes committed by unit that massacred Jews

By David Rising

Guests at an Alternative for Germany party, AfD election party react to the first projections for the German election in Erfurt, Germany, September 24, 2017. (Martin Schutt/dpa via AP)

September 26, 2017, 1:32 am

How former East Germans helped lift far-right AfD into Bundestag

The nationalist, anti-migrant party's triumph is rooted in eastern discontent over social gaps and poor living conditions

By Kirsten Grieshaber and David Rising

Shahak Shapira (Screen capture: Facebook)

September 4, 2017, 8:28 pm

Israeli satirist pranks German nationalist party on Facebook

Shahak Shapira takes over AfD social media groups, changes name of site from 'Homeland Love' to 'Hummus Love'

By David Rising

In this June 17, 2016 file photo, former SS sergeant Reinhold Hanning, who served as a guard at Auschwitz, sits in the courtroom in Detmold, Germany. (Bernd Thissen/Pool Photo via AP)

June 1, 2017, 3:50 pm

Auschwitz guard dies before starting 5-year sentence

Reinhold Hanning, convicted of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, dies at 95, while case still being appealed

By David Rising

Horst Mahler waits, prior to the lawsuit, in a court room of the higher regional court in Munich, southern Germany, Janusary 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Christof Stache, file)

May 15, 2017, 10:41 pm

German neo-Nazi who fled to avoid prison arrested in Hungary

Horst Mahler was ordered to to complete sentence for Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic incitement before fleeing Germany

By David Rising

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, standing at lectern, delivers a speech on Europe ahead of an EU summit in Brussels at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

March 9, 2017, 1:32 pm

Merkel: Turkish comments about Nazis trivialize victims

Erdogan's comparison of limits to Turkey's referendum campaigning on German soil to Nazism 'so incredibly misplaced that one really can't comment'

By David Rising and Josh Lederman

United States Vice President Mike Pence, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet for bilateral talks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

February 19, 2017, 1:38 am

Pence offers ‘unwavering’ NATO pledge, but ‘not a word on EU’

French foreign minister complains about limited scope of US vice president's assurances as allies look for signs of Trump administration's intentions

By Geir Moulson and David Rising

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waits for the beginning of a questioning at an investigation committee of the German federal parliament looking into alleged US surveillance in Germany and the activities of Germany's own foreign intelligence service in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

February 17, 2017, 8:04 am

World leaders hoping for clarity on US policy at Munich security meet

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman representing Israel at international gathering; Iranian FM also set to attend

By David Rising