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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks to the press near the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington, DC on February 6, 2019. (Eric BARADAT / AFP)
February 16, 2019, 2:13 am
EU, Germany reject US call to leave Iran nuclear deal
European officials hit back after Pence criticism, say salvaging 2015 accord ‘fundamental’ to continent’s security
By David Rising
A police officer in an entrance of an apartment building during a raid in the village Meldorf, Germany, January 30, 2019. (Karsten Schroeder/dpa via AP)
January 30, 2019, 2:17 pm
German police arrest 3 suspected of extremist bomb plot
Iraqi suspects ordered detonator, downloaded bomb-making instructions and tested explosive powder, authorities say
By David Rising and Frank Jordans
More than a dozen lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany walked out of Bavarian state parliament during a tribute to Holocaust victims at the Bavarian Parliament in Munich, Germany, January 23, 2019. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
January 23, 2019, 10:37 pm
German far-right lawmakers walk out of speech by Holocaust survivor
AfD members’ protest in Bavaria comes as Charlotte Knobloch, a former head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, accuses the party of downplaying Nazi crimes
By David Rising
Hilde Schramm, daughter of Hitler's architect Albert Speer, receives the Jewish history award for a foundation she founded to support Jewish women's cultural projects. January 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
January 21, 2019, 8:32 pm
Nazi architect Speer’s daughter sold his paintings to fund Jewish women’s causes
Her father was Hitler’s builder and armaments minister; Hilde Schramm used the proceeds of his collection of paintings to start a foundation
By David Rising
Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, stands in front of a building in the Queens borough of New York, November 20, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times via AP)
January 11, 2019, 12:50 am
The last Nazi in America: Camp guard deported by US last year dies in Germany
Jakiw Palij ,95, was last known Nazi war criminal living in US when removed from New York home after 25-year effort; dies in nursing home after Berlin declines to prosecute him
By David Rising
Two holocaust survivors arrive for Hanukkah candlelighting at the International Holocaust Survivors Night of the Jewish Community in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
December 4, 2018, 9:59 pm
Holocaust survivors gather for global Hanukkah ceremonies
‘We have to celebrate them while we can,’ says former MK and survivor Colette Avital as commemorations are held in Jerusalem, Moscow, Berlin, and New York
By David Rising
Members of a delegation from Israel arrive for a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, Sunday, May 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
November 23, 2018, 11:19 pm
95-year-old alleged SS camp guard charged in Germany
Hans Werner H. faces 36,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis’ Mauthausen concentration camp
By David Rising
Johann Rehbogen, a 94-year-old former SS guard holds his walking stick at the beginning of a trial in Muenster, Germany, November 6, 2018. (Guido Kirchner/dpa via AP)
November 6, 2018, 3:36 pm
Former Nazi SS concentration camp guard, 94, goes on trial in Germany
Enlisted SS man charged as accessory to hundreds of deaths in Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland
By David Rising
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her speech during a plenary session of the German parliament Bundestag about the budget 2019, in Berlin, September 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
September 12, 2018, 1:38 pm
Merkel: ‘No excuse’ for far-right violence, attack on kosher restaurant
German chancellor vows strong response to crimes committed by migrants but condemns violent demonstrations with Hitler salutes
By David Rising and Kirsten Grieshaber
Far-right demonstrators light flares in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, on September 7, 2018, after a 35-year-old German was stabbed to death in August 2018. (AFP/Odd Andersen)
September 9, 2018, 4:08 pm
German Jewish leader slams deep-rooted extremism after kosher restaurant attack
Masked neo-Nazis attacked the Schalom restaurant on the sidelines of a protest, chanting ‘Jewish pig, get out of Germany’ and injuring the owner
By David Rising
In this Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, frame from video, Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, is carried on a stretcher from his home in the Queens borough of New York. (ABC via AP)
August 21, 2018, 11:21 pm
Groups hail deportation of ex-Nazi guard after years in limbo
Envoy says Trump made sending 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard Jakiw Palij to Germany a priority
By Michael R. Sisak, David Rising and Randy Herschaft
Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, stands in front of a building in the Queens borough of New York, November 20, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times via AP)
August 21, 2018, 1:58 pm
US deports 95-year-old former Nazi camp guard to Germany
Jakiw Palij, who gained entry to America using false information, has admitted to serving at the Trawniki concentration site but denies committing war crimes
By Michael R. Sisak, David Rising and Randy Herschaft
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
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