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By Richard Rule At 10 am on Wednesday April 16, 1947, the former commandant of Auschwitz extermination camp, SS Oberstürm bannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolph Hoess, briskly walked under armed escort toward the small wooden gallows specifically built...

BRZEZINKA, Poland (AP) -- When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz exactly 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a small and hungry 11-year-old girl into his arms and rocked her tenderly, tears coming...

Don't Stop Living - Jonny Blair - a lifestyle of travel “Arbeit Macht Frei” – Nazi German motto, taken from Lorenz Diefenbach. Day Tour of Auschwitz in Poland Part 1: Touring Auschwitz I Before I get down to the business of writing about my tour to...

Victory Day in Kiev under V F Yanukovich… he honoured the Great Victory… NOT the Nazi collaborationist filth. The present junta praises traitorous, treacherous, and murderous collaborators… that gives you a measure of their (lack of) character, I’d say...

JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images Director Steven Spielberg (center) is pictured at the unveiling of a plaque at the former Auschwitz concentration camp on Tuesday at the camp’s memorial site in Oswiecim, Poland. Film director Steven Spielberg told...