A former Nazi concentration camp secretary who allegedly helped murder 11,412 people is set to walk free. The public prosecutor has asked that the 97-year-old Stutthof concentration camp secretary be sentenced to two years of probation despite being convinced that the defendant is guilty of complicity in over 11,000 cases…
Starving prisoners at a Nazi death camp ate the body parts of dead inmates to stay alive, a holocaust survivor has told a shocked trial. Prisoners turned to cannibalism on a daily basis, often butchering corpses for their livers, the German court heard. The shocking testimony came in the ongoing…
These shocking images show starving cows on a horror farm in Poland that were found living in their own faeces along with the decaying carcasses of other bovines that had drowned in the sea of poo. The footage was reportedly filmed at a farm – described as a "concentration camp…
Swiss council bosses who used a picture of the Nazi death camp Dachau on their website have been forced to apologise. The notice was supposed to announce service times at the local church in Schattdorf, a village in Switzerland's German-speaking region. But instead of showing the church, they illustrated the…
A quarry where Steven Spielberg filmed Schindler's List is set to be turned into a nature reserve after being saved from developers. The Liban Quarry, located in the southern Polish city of Krakow, was at risk from plans to hand most of the site to property developers to turn it…
The charred remains of 8,000 victims of a Nazi World War II death camp have been unearthed in woodlands in northern Poland. Experts say 17.5 tonnes of human ashes have been found buried near the notorious Soldau concentration camp in what was then East Prussia. The finding - in Ilowo-Osada…
A 101-year-old Nazi death camp SS guard has been jailed for five years over the murder of 3,518 people. Josef Schuetz had told a German court he was just a farmhand who had worked nearby. He is understood to be the oldest Nazi war criminal ever to stand trial. But…
A 95-year-old former concentration camp guard has told a court that he had never met a death camp secretary - on trial over the deaths of over 11,000 people - despite walking past her office every day. Irmgard Furchner, 97, is accused of being an accessory to murder in the…
A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor from Ukraine who was in Auschwitz with Anne Frank before being liberated by British troops has said that after surviving Stalin and Hitler, she plans to survive Putin too. Anastasia Gulej has had to flee to Germany from Ukraine after Russia invaded her country in February…
A 93-year-old German woman has been given jail for the second time in four years for Holocaust denial - just days after her release from her previous sentence. 'Nazi Grandma' Ursula Haverbeck, 93, hit headlines in May 2018 when she went on the run to escape a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence…