Lawyers

• 94-Year-Old Former Auschwitz Guard Goes On Trial in Germany, Survivors Testify

  An ex-Auschwitz guard, who is allegedly involved in the gassing of more than hundreds of thousands of Jews in Western Germany, was sent to trial for 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. Several Auschwitz survivors are set to testify against the former guard.

• Donald Trump’s tomato-thrower charged with disorderly conduct

  An Iowa protester who threw tomatoes at Donald Trump during a speech was charged with disorderly conduct and spent the night in prison last Tuesday night.

• Netanyahu Holocaust comment not backed by scholarly evidence?: U.S.

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments on Wednesday linking a Muslim leader to the Holocaust were not supported by scholarly evidence, the State Department said, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry left Washington for talks on ending weeks of Palestinian-Israeli violence.

• 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' found guilty by German court

  A 94-year-old German man who worked as a bookkeeper at Auschwitz was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the death camp, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials.

• Auschwitz bookkeeper goes on trial in Germany

  A 93-year-old former bookkeeper at Auschwitz went on trial in Germany on Tuesday, accused by prosecutors of being an accessory in the murder of 300,000 people, though he was not involved in any actual killing at the notorious Nazi death camp.

• Greek PM Tsipras to visit Germany's Holocaust memorial

  Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit Germany's Holocaust memorial on Tuesday on the second day of his visit to the country that his radical leftist government has demanded pay World War Two reparations, his office said on Monday.

• Ukraine tensions keep Putin away from Auschwitz anniversary

  Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to join world leaders gathering at the site of the Auschwitz death camp this month because distrust caused by the conflict in Ukraine has cast a pall on arrangements to commemorate the Holocaust.

• Germany celebrates 25th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall

  More than a million Germans and people from around the world on Sunday celebrated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event that more than any other marked the end of the Cold War.

• Notorious 'Arbeit macht frei' gate stolen from Dachau death camp

  Thieves have stolen the iron gate to Dachau concentration camp bearing the Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free), the director of the memorial site in southern Germany and local police said on Monday.