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Participants draped in Israeli flags take part in the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate the Holocaust at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz
Image: Kacper Pempel/Reuters

Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, refers to the deliberate, systematic murder of Jewish people during the Nazi reign of Germany from 1933 to 1945. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on January 27.

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Concentration camp inmates at the liberation of Auschwitz

A question of guilt

A study says Germany's Foreign Ministry helped carry out the Holocaust, despite denials.
October 24, 2010
A skull photograph from the exhibition "Hitler and the Germans"

Hitler and the Germans

An exhibition at the German Historical Museum parts with convention by making Hitler its focus.
October 14, 2010
A screenshot from the Memory Loops map

Digital monument

A new memorial to Nazi victims featuring an online audio map has drawn some objections.
October 12, 2010
Noah Klieger

Wagner boycott

An Israeli Holocaust survivor explains why Israeli orchestras play Strauss but not Wagner.
October 6, 2010
Forced laborers working on the Atlantic Wall in 1943

Nazi crimes

Berlin's Jewish Museum honors victims of the Nazis' forced labor policy with a new exhibition.
September 29, 2010

Holocaust denier David Irving stirs up controversy on visit to Poland

British Historian and Holocaust denier David Irving has Poles up in arms as he begins giving paid tours of Nazi death camps in the country.
September 22, 2010
Right-wing British historian David Irving in a Vienna courtroom

Holocaust denial

Groups call for historian David Irving to be prosecuted for denying the murder of millions of Jews.
September 22, 2010
Erika Steinbach

Foot in mouth

The head of an organization representing German WWII expellees insults a Polish Holocaust survivor.
September 17, 2010

French teacher disciplined over Holocaust

A French teacher has been suspended for four months for spending too much time and energy on teaching the Holocaust and organizing visits to the sites of former concentration camps.
September 1, 2010
The cupola of the Berlin Synagogue

Six decades on

Germany's Central Council for Jews, founded July 19, 1950, celebrates 60 successful years.
July 19, 2010
Comic illustrations of The Spirit and the Immigrants by Will Eisner, and Superman

Minsk theory of Krypton

The comic book industry was built by the descendents of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
May 11, 2010
Visitors wander through the Berlin Holocaust Memorial

Holocaust remembrance

Now five years old, the memorial is a huge success. But it was a long, hard road getting it there.
May 10, 2010
Opinion

Pillars of remembrance

The Berlin Holocaust Memorial is a symbol of historical conscience, says DW's Cornelia Rabitz.
May 10, 2010
Display of exhibits in Topography of Terror museum

Center of evil

A new exhibition in the heart of Berlin shows where the Nazi atrocities were planned.
May 6, 2010
Dachau gate with the words "Arbeit macht frei"

Dachau remembered

Germany's president commemorates the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp 65 years ago.
May 2, 2010
Adolf Eichmann's Argentinian passport

Eichmann files

A German court ruling paves the way for the files of an infamous Nazi war criminal to be released.
April 30, 2010
Gate to the camp with 'Arbeit macht frei' sign

Nazi death camp

Survivors remember how, 65 years ago, the Soviet Red Army liberated Sachsenhausen.
April 21, 2010
British-born Bishop Richard Williamson during an interview in Schierling, south of Regensburg, Germany

Holocaust denier fined

Richard Williamson was fined 10,000 Euros on Friday for denying some aspects of the Holocaust.
April 16, 2010
Sillhuette of the pope

Catholic child abuse scandal

Vatican preacher uses Good Friday sermon to compare sexual abuse scandal to anti-semitism
April 3, 2010
East Prussian Germans escaping the Russian advance across an icy lagoon

Expellee row

The Jewish community's representative in a museum project on German refugees may step down.
March 14, 2010
The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz

Auschwitz theft

Sweden allows the extradition of a former neo-Nazi leader for the theft of an infamous sign.
March 11, 2010
A crack running through one of the gray concrete slabs

A history of cracks

Ever since it opened, Berlin's Holocaust memorial has had problems with cracking concrete.
March 4, 2010

Thousands of cracks appear in Holocaust memorial

The foundation that oversees Berlin's Holocaust memorial says it has cracks in most of its 2,711 concrete slabs only five years after it opened. Experts have yet to find a remedy.
March 4, 2010
Pop band Ofrin

Israelis in Berlin

Berlin has become a popular destination for young Israelis who've put the past behind them.
February 12, 2010
Visitors passing under the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign at Auschwitz

Auschwitz arrest

Police have arrested a man in Sweden relating to the theft of the entrance sign at Auschwitz.
February 12, 2010
Salomon Korn, Charlotte Knobloch and Dieter Graumann

Leadership change

Germany’s Jewish leader makes way for a younger generation with no personal memories of holocaust.
February 8, 2010
Charlotte Knobloch

Generational change

Charlotte Knobloch won't seek another term, making way for a younger person to lead Germany's Jews.
February 7, 2010
The yellow Jewish star that Jews had to wear during the Nazi regime

Dark history

Exposed records show that church officials helped the Nazis in persecuting Jews.
January 28, 2010

Israeli leader honors the memory of Holocaust victims at Auschwitz

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined elderly survivors for ceremonies at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the site of the Nazi death camp which was liberated by the Red Army 65 years ago.
January 27, 2010
Richard Williamson during the interview in question.

Bishop on trial

A Catholic bishop who denies the Holocaust is charged with inciting racial hatred in Germany.
January 27, 2010
shimon peres

Peres in parliament

Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses the Bundestag on Holocaust Memorial Day.
January 27, 2010
A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire at Auschwitz

Remembering Auschwitz

Holocaust Memorial Day marks the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp.
January 27, 2010
Israeli President Shimon Peres passes the honor guard as he walks to his car after his arrival at Tegel airport in Berlin

Moving visit

Israel's president is in Germany to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and deliver a historic speech.
January 25, 2010

Children of victims of the Holocaust hear account by death camp survivor

Thomas Blatt is a prosecution witness in the trial of alleged Nazi Sobibor death camp guard John Demjanjuk. Many of the Dutch co-plaintiffs were in court as he gave his harrowing testimony.
January 21, 2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

German-Israeli ties

At a historic joint German-Israeli cabinet session Angela Merkel backs sanctions on Tehran.
January 18, 2010
A man works at ephemeral displays crafted by the Jewish Community of Rome in the eighteenth century, part of the exhibition "Et Ecce Gaudium", Here is The Good News, referring to the formula used to announce the election of a new pope

Pope in the temple

Italy's Jewish community is divided over the pope's visit to the Rome synagogue.
January 17, 2010
Identity card of John Demjanjuk at Sobibor

Demjanjuk trial

The trial of suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk continues in Munich.
January 12, 2010
Miep Gies displays a copy of her book "Anne Frank Remembered"

Miep Gies dies

The woman who helped Anne Frank and saved her diary from the Nazis, has died at age 100.
January 12, 2010
Nazi era poster discouraging interaction between Germans and blacks

Afro-Germans and Nazism

What was life like for blacks in the Nazi era? How did they survive Hitler's oppressive regime?
January 10, 2010
The "Arbeit macht frei" sign at the gate to Auschwitz

Auschwitz theft

Swedish neo-Nazis are reported to be behind the theft of the Auschwitz "Arbeit macht frei" sign.
December 30, 2009
John Demjanjuk in court yesterday, sitting in his wheelchair and wearing a cap.

Demjanjuk trial

A survivor of the Sobibor death camp appears as a witness in the trial, giving testimony.
December 22, 2009
John Demjanjuk

Old Nazis

What can be proven about John Demjanjuk? Is a conviction even possible under current German law?
December 21, 2009
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg

Unusual friendship

The German military celebrates a longstanding partnership with the American Jewish Committee.
December 8, 2009
John Demjanjuk on trial in Munich

Adjourned for illness

The high-profile trial of a Ukrainian alleged Nazi war criminal has been postponed.
December 2, 2009
Archive picture of Demjanjuk's alleged identity papers

Holocaust trial

John Demjanjuk is facing charges that he aided in the deaths of thousands.
December 2, 2009
John Demjanjuk

Nazi trial

Demjanjuk is set to hear the charges against him as well as testimony from Holocaust survivors.
December 1, 2009
Anti-Ahmadinejad protests in Brazil

Calculated risk

President Lula wants Brazil to take a leading role on the world stage by receiving Ahmadinejad.
November 23, 2009
Black and white photo of Henio, a young Holocaust victim, in 1939

Remembering the Holocaust

A young Holocaust victim has been brought back to life - on Facebook.
November 19, 2009
jewish forced laborers

Nazi war crimes

A German court charges a former Nazi with the murder of 58 Jewish forced laborers in 1945.
November 17, 2009
Neo-nazi CDs

Radio Nazi

The people who ran an illegal, far-right Internet radio station appeared in court on Monday.
November 16, 2009