Almost 75 years after Hitler’s suicide, the evil of the Third Reich is like the sun; if you stare straight at it, you’ll get burned. We avert our eyes through satire (Springtime for Hitler, the ...

Holocaust survivors often refer to the "banality of evil" when describing how remarkably ordinary even the highest-ranking Nazis seemed after their capture for aiding the mass murder of more than 6 ...

On April 11, 1961 scores of reporters from throughout the world—far more than had been present at the Nuremberg tribunals 15 years earlier—gathered in Jerusalem. They were there for the beginning of ...

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Gabriel Bach, a member of the Israeli team that prosecuted Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, died Friday. He was 94. Bach, a former Israeli Supreme Court justice, also served as a state prosecutor and ...

JERUSALEM – Israel made public on Wednesday a handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who was executed by Israel in 1962 following a war crimes trial.

In June 2023, I visited Majdanek, in Poland, one of the 1000+ concentration camps Nazi Germany built to kill millions of Jews. The barracks were wooden, the watchtowers unremarkable, the gas chambers ...

Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about the world and about my family. By M. Gessen In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann ...

On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: “A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was ...

Fifty years ago one of the world's most notorious war criminals sat in a courtroom for a trial that would be among the first in history to be completely televised. That man was Adolf Eichmann — and he ...

India, Dec. 5 -- Scientists from Monash University are partnering with colleagues at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., to develop a new, high-tech approach for treating ischemic stroke ...