Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around 1.1 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of ...

As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who ...

The Nazis murdered an estimated 1.1 million people at the death camp in southern Poland before its liberation on January 27, ...

Charles becomes first British head of state to visit former death camp, while it is announced Princess of Wales will join ...

Overlooking a gas chamber and a crematorium at Auschwitz, a large house inhabited by the Nazi death camp's commandant is to become a centre for the global fight against anti-Semitism and extremism.

On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, one of the youngest survivors Tova Friedman addresses the ...

In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to ...

He was no noble officer like Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the ringleader of the most famous attempt to kill Adolf Hitler. He was no industry titan like Oskar Schindler, who sheltered Jews as ...

Germany’s opposition leader says his party will bring motions to toughen migration policy to parliament next week in one of ...

A house once inhabited by a Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp will be turned into a research centre fighting against anti-Semitism and extremism, a US non-profit said on Wednesday.

The Nazi officer made commandant of the concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, brought the motto Arbeit Macht Frei - works sets you free - from another camp where he had worked, at Dachau in Germany.