During the Second World War, there were multiple people from Allied countries who deserted to the Axis powers. Actually, ...

The Waffen SS, one of Nazi Germany’s most infamous military units, faced its first test in combat during the early stages of World War II. From the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the lightning-fast ...

A German court has set a trial date for a 100-year-old man who is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts ...

Berlin — A former Nazi concentration camp guard was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for "complicity in murders during his service in the Sachsenhausen camp" between 1942 and 1945. At 101, ...

A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman accessory to over 10,000 murders for her role as secretary to a Nazi SS commander stationed at a concentration camp in World War II. The court's Tuesday ...

Holland man Gerrit Haagsma and his friend, Hessel Bouma, were both children of World War II — but in very different ways.