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A secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been charged with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people during the Holocaust, German prosecutors said today. The 95-year-old woman was a stenographer and a secretary to the commander of Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Identified by German media as Irmgard F, she is accused of … Read more
Visitors at Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp are condemned for tobogganing over mass graves where 76,000 people died during WWII The German WWII memorial urged visitors to avoid spending leisure pastimes People were spotted enjoying sledging at the mass graves while touring the site Buchenwald and its sub camp were used to house thousands of slave … Read more
Treasure hunters are warned to stay away from Buchenwald after documentary claimed handwritten map points the way to hidden Nazi gold WARNING: Contains distressing photographs Treasure hunters have been warned against searching concentration camps A documentary claimed secret tunnels at Buckenwald could contain Nazi gold Buckenwald and its sub camps was used to house thousands … Read more
One of Northern Ireland’s last Second World War veterans, who helped liberate a concentration camp, has died aged 100. Edward ‘Teddy’ Dixon was born in New York but his family moved to Belfast when he was a young child. He served in the US army as an infantryman in the 42nd Infantry ‘Rainbow’ Division, receiving his … Read more
A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been spared jail after being found guilty of accessory to 5,230 murders. Bruno Dey was handed a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday by a court in Hamburg. In what could be one of the last such cases involving surviving Nazi guards, Dey was convicted for his role … Read more
Dawn breaks in the crowded prison cell. Not everyone is asleep — conditions are so cramped in the 70-square-yard space that 15 of the 60 inmates have to stand to give others their turn to lie down. The lack of privacy is absolute. Toilet breaks are rationed — two minutes at a time — and … Read more
Dawn breaks in the crowded prison cell. Not everyone is asleep — conditions are so cramped in the 70-square-yard space that 15 of the 60 inmates have to stand to give others their turn to lie down. The lack of privacy is absolute. Toilet breaks are rationed — two minutes at a time — and … Read more
A former Nazi concentration camp guard has apologised to Holocaust victims as he awaits the verdict in trial over the deaths of 5,230 prisoners. Bruno Dey, 93, spoke at a court in Hamburg, Germany, earlier today during the high-profile trial over his involvement in the atrocities of the Second World War. He stands accused of complicity … Read more
Auschwitz renovations uncover ‘escape kit’: Spoons and tools are discovered hidden beneath a chimney at Nazi concentration camp Objects also include knives, hooks, scissors, pieces of leather and parts of shoes Found in April in block 17 of main camp, which existed in Nazi-occupied Poland Block was used to house manual workers, including chimney sweeps Find … Read more
The horrors of Nazi Germany’s only concentration camp for children have been brought to life in harrowing detail as part of a chilling new visualisation. Researchers from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance painstakingly pieced together the layout of the Preventive Security Police Camp for Polish Youth in Lodz, where hundreds of children were beaten and … Read more