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Switzerland's SBB suspends 'neo-Nazi' transport police officer

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:01:23 +0200

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has suspended a transport police officer from duty in the wake of media reports stating he holds extremist views.

Children of Nazis and their victims share family history to mark Holocaust

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:35:30 +0100

The moment may sound familiar to many; a family gathered around a kitchen table after the death of a parent, taking stock of the life that has ended.

Swiss neo-Nazi who spat on Jew jailed for two years

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:35:28 +0100

A neo-Nazi with an extensive criminal record is set to spend 24 months in prison for racial discrimination and assault over a 2015 attack in the Zurich district of Wiedikon.

Right-wing group carries out security patrols in Geneva

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:52:16 +0100

The presence of citizen security patrols whose members sported red and white Swiss Cross armbands in central Geneva last weekend has caused surprise and concern among residents.

‘Swiss Schindler’ honoured with room in Federal Palace

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:51:10 +0100

A key meeting venue in the Swiss Federal Palace in Bern was on Monday renamed the ‘Carl Lutz room’ in honour of the diplomat who – together with his colleagues in Budapest – saved tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary from the Nazis in the Second World War.

Bern gallery exhibits Nazi-era art collection

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:53:21 +0200

A Swiss museum is to exhibit works from a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard it inherited two years ago from a German recluse, gallery managers said on Monday.

Swiss politician quizzed over Nazi-looted painting

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:31:46 +0200

UPDATED: A painting by Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler which its Jewish owner was forced by the Nazis to sell in 1938 has turned up in the art collection of prominent Swiss politician Christoph Blocher.

Zurich court orders neo-Nazi shooter into therapy

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:56:00 +0200

A neo-Nazi who shot a man after a dispute in a Zurich bar has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to undergo therapy.

Nazi gathering planned for Sunday

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:22:00 +0200

An annual Nazi march scheduled to take place on Sunday is expected to attract double the numbers that attended last year.

Minaret ban mastermind rejects Nazi comparison

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:28:00 +0200

Swiss People’s Party politician Barbara Steinemann has shot back at critics of her plan to launch an initiative calling for social welfare statistics to reflect whether a Swiss is native or naturalized.

Swiss return Nazi-looted goblet

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:29:00 +0200

Switzerland announced on Thursday the return of a 17th century silver goblet to the estate of its Jewish owner, 75 years after its purchase at auction in Nazi-era Berlin.

Fury over Mein Kampf in Swiss bookshops

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:41:00 +0200

Anti-racism groups have expressed indignation that Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”) is freely available in bookstores in the Swiss region of Romandie.

Swiss rehabilitate WWII Jewish refugee helpers

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:08:00 +0100

Switzerland said Wednesday it had finally finished the process of rehabilitating more than a hundred people punished during WWII for having helped Jews escape Nazi persecution.

Neo-Nazi terrorists linked to Zurich rabbi murder

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:22:00 +0100

Investigators suspect that a neo-Nazi terrorist cell responsible for a series of murders in Germany may also have been behind the unexplained killing in Zurich a decade ago of the 70-year-old Israeli rabbi Abraham Grünbaum.

Swiss teacher fired over 'funny' Auschwitz pic

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:28:00 +0100

Swiss teacher Bernard Junod has been sacked from his job after posing at the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp with a bag of ‘Nasi Goreng’ fried rice in his hand.

Nazi-looted painting found in Swiss museum

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:16:00 +0200

A painting looted from a Berlin Jewish family by Nazis has been found by US authorities at the Kunsthaus museum in Zurich, museum officials said on Tuesday.