“I was so shocked that I didn’t want to go back to school," Kai Höss says of grandfather Rudolph. “I thought everyone, my teachers and all my friends, must know“ Rudolph Höss was a high-ranking Nazi ...

German prosecutors say they have dropped their probe into a 93-year-old former Nazi SS officer over a World War II massacre in Italy because he suffers from dementia. Gerhard Sommer, a former company ...

Belarus’ Supreme Court found German SS officer Hans Siegling guilty of genocide against the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. He not only organised murders in Minsk, ...

PRAGS, Italy — In a little-known chapter in the waning days of World War II, U.S. troops rescued more than 130 political prisoners from an Alpine hotel that members of Hitler’s SS intended to barter ...

Massimiliano Afiero has had a long interest in military history and served as Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly magazine, Axis Forces. He’s written a detailed and well-illustrated account of SS units ...

BERLIN — A German newspaper says that former Nazi SS officer Erich Steidtmann, suspected but never convicted of involvement in World War II massacres, has died at age 95. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung ...