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# Hitler Youth
Former SS soldier charged over disparaging memory of Nazi victims dies
Karl Muenter had already been convicted in France over his role in the killing of 86 males in 1944.
# Nazis
Former SS guard (94) to testify at trial in Germany
Johann Rehbogen is charged with complicity in mass murder at a Nazi concentration camp.
# Thuringia
Eight police hurt in clashes at far-right gig in Germany
Police also recorded 22 instances of the use of banned Nazi insignia.
# beate zschaepe
German neo-Nazi gets life sentence for seven-year racist murder spree
The mammoth trial of Beate Zschaepe had run for over five years.
# monaghan museum
Spitfire that crashed into Monaghan field and Nazi invasion plans to be put on show
The year-long exhibition will take place in Monaghan.
# Eighth Amendment
Pope Francis compares abortion to Nazi crimes 'but with white gloves'
The Pope is due to visit Ireland in August, just months after Ireland voted in favour of liberalising its abortion laws.
# alexander gauland
German far-right leader sparks outrage in describing Nazi rule as 'just a speck of bird s**t'
“We have a glorious history and one, my dear friends, that lasted a lot longer than those damned 12 years”, Alexander Gauland said.
# World War II
Researchers uncover 'dirty jokes' in Anne Frank's diary
Brown paper had been used to cover pages in her first diary.
# triptych of the crucifixion
France hands back Nazi looted art to Jewish family
The family fled to Paris from Germany in 1938 and were forced to sell the 16th painting.
# Nazis
'Step on the gas - we can make it to seven million': Austria shaken by 'Nazi songbook' scandal
Far-right parties in Austria are becoming more popular.
# Nazis
Louvre launches new display in hope of reuniting owners with art stolen by Nazis
More than 45,000 stolen objects have been handed back to their rightful owners since World War II.
# Indonesia
Museum removes 'fun' Hitler display after protests
Visitors had been encouraged to take selfies with the waxwork.
# Charlottesville
Trump condemns hate on 'many sides' after woman killed by car at anti-Nazi protest
Two police officers died after a helicopter crashed.
# nazi youth
Believe it or not, Reagan had a media chief who lasted even less time than Scaramucci
John O Koehler, who lasted a week, had been in a Nazi youth organisation as a young child.
# rave reviews
German opera confronts Wagner's antisemitism head-on
Angela Merkel attended the opening night of the Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
# gone
Katie Hopkins to leave job at London radio station after calling for 'final solution' to Manchester attack
Hopkins became the subject of a police review after the Manchester bombing on Monday.
# history lesson
Sean Spicer just said even Hitler 'didn't sink to using chemical weapons'
The White House Press Secretary is under fire once again for his comments.
# naked demonstrators
Poland charges 11 over bizarre Auschwitz 'slaughtered lamb' protest
The unprecedented stunt was apparently intended as a call for world peace.
# European Union
"They are the vestiges of the Nazis": Turkey president slams Dutch over foreign minister ban
An upcoming referendum in the Netherlands if passed will increase Erdogan’s power.
# daniel hope
Meet the man championing musicians who were captured by the Nazis
A hugely successful violinist, Daniel Hope is using music to bring the stories of the oppressed to the rest of the world.
# commemoration
President Higgins calls for fight against politics of fear and hatred while marking Holocaust Memorial
Minister Flanagan said we must be vigilant in standing against fundamentalist ideologies.
# preserving the Holocaust
Preserving a dark history - the conservation project at Nazi Germany's most notorious death camp
The aim is not to recreate Auschwitz, but rather to keep it preserved exactly as it was during the dark days of World War II.
# 1986 state papers
Government investigated whether Josef Mengele spent time in Ireland after World War II
The Nazi war criminal was suspected to have spent six weeks in Ireland under an assumed name
# heinrich himmler
WW2 diaries: The lives, obsessions and mistresses of the man who planned the Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler’s wartime diaries have been discovered.
# Austria
Homeless man jailed after painting Nazi symbols on schools
His lawyer said he ‘had a grudge against the state’.
# mind of a tyrant
'A fully-fledged masochist': Inside the CIA's psychological profile of Adolf Hitler
The report was commissioned in 1943.
# holocaust killing
Former Nazi guard (94) goes on trial over 170,000 Auschwitz deaths
But Reinhold Hanning is unlikely to serve time over his role at the death camp.
# damage
Fine Gael councillor's posters defaced with swastikas
Colm Brophy woke up on Sunday to find around two-dozen of his posters spray painted with the Nazi symbol.
# from Phibsborough to berlin
The fascinating story of an Irish jazz sensation who witnessed the Nazis come to power
Josephine Alexandra Mitchell, or Zandra, was the country’s first female saxophonist.
# baltic beaches
Hitler's 3-mile-long abandoned Nazi resort is being transformed into a luxury getaway
Hitler ordered the construction of the massive ‘Prora’ complex in the 1930s – but it later fell into ruin.
# August Landmesser
The tragically powerful story behind the lone German who refused to give Hitler the Nazi salute
August Landmesser’s act of defiance stands out amid the throng of Nazi salutes at this 1936 rally.
# not nice nazis
This huge Nazi flag caused consternation in Nice
“It is distressing, it sends shivers down your spine.”
# yom kippur
TV station uses Nazi Holocaust symbol in a story about Jewish holiday
WGN TV say they are “extremely embarrassed” by their mistake.
# total rush
Apparently the Nazis were high on a crystal meth-style drug
The Nazis reportedly wanted Pervitin to rival Coca Cola.
# cry for love
Punk song about a 'Nazi a**hole' tops German charts amid support for refugees
Even a choir of pensioners has performed a cover version.
# Treasure Trove
A Nazi train filled with gold has almost certainly been found buried in Poland
And everyone’s getting awfully excited.
# Poland
Two British teens arrested after allegedly stealing items from Auschwitz
Guards caught the pair yesterday.
# scotstika
English historian under fire for comparing the SNP with the Nazis
“I’m not saying they’re about to set up concentration camps,” David Starkey said defending his views.
# Greece
Recalling a Nazi massacre: 'A burly German soldier killed my little brother and two women'
A town in Greece is still looking for justice.
# ends of the earth
This Nazi-hunting husband/wife team even tried to kidnap an SS officer
Serge and Beath Klarsfeld hunted down Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo officer known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.