https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German prosecutors said Wednesday they have closed their case due to lack of evidence against a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard recently deported by the United States. https://www.thelocal.de/20210331/germany-closes-case-against-deported-ex-nazi-guard-95 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:50:15 +0200 germany-closes-case-against-deported-ex-nazi-guard-95 A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard has been charged with complicity in 3,518 murders as Germany races to bring surviving Nazi staff to justice, prosecutors told AFP on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20210208/germany-charges-100-year-old-former-nazi-camp-guard Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:51:32 +0100 germany-charges-100-year-old-former-nazi-camp-guard With the coronavirus pandemic wiping clean most public events in Germany, the memorial at the Buchenwald former concentration camp marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation on Saturday in a new way. https://www.thelocal.de/20200413/buchenwald-concentration-camp-quietly-marks-75th-anniversary-of-its-liberation Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:37:38 +0200 buchenwald-concentration-camp-quietly-marks-75th-anniversary-of-its-liberation Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said acknowledging Nazi crimes was part of Germany's national identity in a message aimed at far right calls for a shift away from a culture of remembrance. https://www.thelocal.de/20191206/remembering-nazi-crimes-inseparable-from-german-identity-merkel Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:12:46 +0100 remembering-nazi-crimes-inseparable-from-german-identity-merkel Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim. https://www.thelocal.de/20191205/we-have-to-live-a-normal-life-here-inside-oswiecim-the-town-in-the-shadow-of-auschwitz Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:10:05 +0100 we-have-to-live-a-normal-life-here-inside-oswiecim-the-town-in-the-shadow-of-auschwitz Angela Merkel will visit the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Friday for the first time in her 14 years as chancellor, as Germany grapples with a resurgence of anti-Semitism. https://www.thelocal.de/20191203/merkel-set-to-visit-auschwitz-as-germany-battles-resurgence-of-anti-semitism Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:39:08 +0100 merkel-set-to-visit-auschwitz-as-germany-battles-resurgence-of-anti-semitism A museum slammed US e-commerce giant Amazon for selling Christmas ornaments with images of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, calling them inappropriate. https://www.thelocal.de/20191202/auschwitz-museum-slams-amazon-over-disturbing-and-disrespectful-concentration-camp-christmas-ornaments Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:22:35 +0100 auschwitz-museum-slams-amazon-over-disturbing-and-disrespectful-concentration-camp-christmas-ornaments German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay her first visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau next Friday, her spokeswoman said, ahead of the 75th anniversary commemorations for the liberation of the Nazi death camp. https://www.thelocal.de/20191129/merkel-to-pay-first-visit-to-auschwitz Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:39:19 +0100 merkel-to-pay-first-visit-to-auschwitz Netflix on Thursday said it would add information to a Holocaust documentary on Nazi German death camps that Poland said "rewrites history" because it features an "incorrect" map. https://www.thelocal.de/20191115/rewrites-history-netflix-to-fix-holocaust-documentary-following-complaints Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:46:21 +0100 rewrites-history-netflix-to-fix-holocaust-documentary-following-complaints Ahead of three state elections in which the AfD is set to do well, fears are growing over the erosion of Germany's culture of remembrance. Should the country be worried? https://www.thelocal.de/20190826/far-right-surge-shakes-german-guardians-of-nazi-era-remembrance Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:38:39 +0200 far-right-surge-shakes-german-guardians-of-nazi-era-remembrance A German court said Wednesday it had dropped a case against a former Nazi concentration camp guard, finding the seriously ill 95-year-old unfit for trial. https://www.thelocal.de/20190403/german-court-drops-case-against-ailing-former-nazi-camp-guard Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:09:59 +0200 german-court-drops-case-against-ailing-former-nazi-camp-guard U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday paid homage to victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a day after he accused Iranian authorities of plotting a "new Holocaust". https://www.thelocal.de/20190215/us-vice-president-pence-pays-controversial-visit-to-auschwitz Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:33:21 +0100 us-vice-president-pence-pays-controversial-visit-to-auschwitz The remains of six Holocaust victims who were murdered at the Auschwitz death camp were laid to rest in Britain on Sunday https://www.thelocal.de/20190121/holocaust-victims-killed-at-auschwitz-laid-to-rest-in-britain Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:12:38 +0100 holocaust-victims-killed-at-auschwitz-laid-to-rest-in-britain A record 2.15 million people visited Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 2018, the museum in southern Poland has reported. https://www.thelocal.de/20190104/record-numbers-visit-auschwitz-in-2018 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:17:55 +0100 record-numbers-visit-auschwitz-in-2018 A former guard charged with complicity in mass murder at a Nazi concentration camp will testify at his trial in Germany on Tuesday, making a rare statement in one of the last cases of its kind. https://www.thelocal.de/20181113/ex-ss-guard-94-to-testify-at-trial-in Tue, 13 Nov 2018 08:52:18 +0100 ex-ss-guard-94-to-testify-at-trial-in A former SS guard, aged 94, goes on trial Tuesday in Germany charged with complicity in mass murders at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, in a case bearing symbolic and moral weight. https://www.thelocal.de/20181106/ex-ss-guard-now-94-goes-on-trial-in-germany Tue, 06 Nov 2018 09:53:29 +0100 ex-ss-guard-now-94-goes-on-trial-in-germany Germany will on Friday inaugurate a memorial at the long-forgotten site of a World War II Nazi concentration camp where forced labourers built an aircraft factory deep inside a Bavarian forest. https://www.thelocal.de/20180427/memorial-to-honour-forced-labourers-of-forgotten-nazi-camp Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:45:31 +0200 memorial-to-honour-forced-labourers-of-forgotten-nazi-camp German prosecutors investigating Nazi-era crimes said on Wednesday they had charged two former SS officers in their 90s with complicity in hundreds of murders at the Stutthof concentration camp. https://www.thelocal.de/20171115/two-ex-nazi-camp-guards-charged-over-hundreds-of-holocaust-deaths Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:20:41 +0100 two-ex-nazi-camp-guards-charged-over-hundreds-of-holocaust-deaths The museum at the concentration camp in Dachau and the local branch of Burger King have on Wednesday gone to court over a row regarding flyers on the museum premises. https://www.thelocal.de/20170517/dachau-camp-museum-and-burger-king-row-goes-to-court Wed, 17 May 2017 18:17:31 +0200 dachau-camp-museum-and-burger-king-row-goes-to-court On April 11th 1945, the 6th Armoured Division of the US army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, making its inmates the first on German soil to be freed from the grip of the Nazis. https://www.thelocal.de/20150411/70-years-on-buchenwald-liberated-by-us-army Sat, 11 Apr 2015 12:30:00 +0200 70-years-on-buchenwald-liberated-by-us-army