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The artist Gunter Demnig has placed almost 60,000 Stolpersteine across Europe. The first 50 came to Berlin in May 1996.

Young Jews and aging Holocaust survivors made the annual March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau.

Reinhold Hanning has apologized for serving as a camp guard at Auschwitz despite knowing that people were being killed.

The 93-year-old former guard was set to go on trial for having worked as a guard at the notorious Nazi death camp.

A 112-year-old, an Auschwitz survivor lives in Israel today together with his family.

Hubert Z. faced charges for assisting in the murders of 3,681 people at Auschwitz conventration camp.

A man liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 has become the world's oldest man.

Hubert Z. had served as an SS medic at the Nazi extermination camp and was on duty when Anne Frank arrived.

The former Auschwitz SS guard is charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder between January 1943 and June 1944.

Auschwitz survivors gave a press conference ahead of a new trial of a former death camp guard.

A district court in Germany has decided a man who served as a concentration camp guard is fit to stand trial.

A number of events are underway around the world to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Eye-witnesses have been essential to remembering the Holocaust. As time goes on, that must change.

Klüger speaks to DW about Auschwitz, getting older and her speech in the German Bundestag.

Artists held in Nazi camps depicted the horror they experienced. Now their work is on show in Berlin.

A 95-year-old former medic at the Auschwitz death camp will be tried next month on 3,681 counts of accessory to murder.

A Berlin court has sentenced a man sporting a fascist tattoo to six months parole.

"Labyrinth of Lies," a film dealing with post-war Germany, is one of the nine foreign language films on the shortlist.

German court rules a 95-year-old former SS sergeant at Auschwitz in 1944 should stand trial as an accessory to murders.

An 87-year-old German grandmother has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for denying the Holocaust.

Important topics in a nutshell. Thirty-eight tips for understanding Germany and the Germans.

A minister in the new Greek government had to step down within hours of being appointed because of derogatory remarks.

German prosecutors charge a former radio operator with complicity to murder in Auschwitz

With temperatures soaring in Poland, the Auschwitz memorial set up showers for guests, unwittingly evoking old memories.

Esther Bejarano, one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp is suing a Facebook user for libel.

Fifty years ago, the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a major turning point for victims, war criminals and the public.

Sinti and Roma people from around Europe have gathered to remember victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

Prosecutors fear that the Gröning ruling will be left hanging forever, diminishing its historical importance.

A couple responsible for discovering several Nazi criminals has been awarded Germany's Federal Order of Merit.

A persistent German blindness to Nazism can be found in two current court cases whose crimes span over 70 years.

The judge delivered a long, powerful judgment to end the trial of the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz." Ben Knight reports.

Former SS officer Oskar Gröning has been found guilty after his trial for complicity in murder.

A lawyer at the trial of the "accountant of Auschwitz" says he thinks Oskar Gröning's conviction still matters today.

The verdict in the trial of Oskar Gröning, the "accountant of Auschwitz," will be delivered on Wednesday morning.

Plaintiffs' lawyers in a case against the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" say a prosecution sentencing demand is too low.

Lawyers in the case against former SS officer Oskar Gröning have called for him to be jailed for his role at Auschwitz.

A trial in the district court of a former member of the SS in Germany continues.

Two British teenagers arrested on suspicion of stealing artifacts from Auschwitz concentration camp have been released.

Polish police have arrested two British teenagers on suspicion of stealing artifacts from the Auschwitz death camp.

Seven decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, a new history exhibition will open at the concentration camp.

The Polish and German presidents were among those paying their final respects to the former foreign minister of Poland.

A former Auschwitz inmate, Polish foreign minister, and key figure in German-Polish reconciliation passes away.

Former SS officer Oskar Gröning has told a German court he "could not have imagined" Jews coming out of Auschwitz alive.

A former Auschwitz soldier has said he did not spend much time working the 'ramp' at the Nazi death camp.

The trial of an Auschwitz "bookkeeper" has a largely symbolic importance, writes DW's Felix Steiner.

Former SS officer Oskar Gröning has asked for forgiveness, but not all Auschwitz survivors are willing.

The trial of Oskar Gröning, the so-called "bookkeeper" of Auschwitz, has begun in Lüneburg.

The trial of former SS officer Oskar Gröning has begun in a charged atmosphere in Lüneburg. Ben Knight reports.

A former Nazi has asked for forgiveness for his role in mass killings carried out at the Auschwitz concentration camp