BERLIN – Nazis in their 90s accused of mass murder during World War II are the target of an intensified hunt by German prosecutors who want to punish them before they die. Three suspected members of ...

The Islamic State (ISIS) is notorious for its videotaped death squad executions of its captured Western hostages in Iraq and Syria, and its genocidal mass extermination of the Yazidi Christian ...

The harrowing two-part, three-hour docu "Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades" exhaustively chronicles the lethal work of an SS band charged with exterminating Jews in Russia and the Baltic states ...

Twenty-two SS officers responsible for the deaths of 1M+ people would never have been brought to justice were it not for Ben Ferencz. The officers were part of units called Einsatzgruppen, or action ...

80 years ago this week, on 22 June 1941, Operation Barbarossa — the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union — was launched. The warfare between the Nazis and the Russians, which lasted until the end ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Ferencz at the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1947. (Courtesy of benferencz.org) At one of the Nazi concentration camps the U.S.

Two suspected members of Adolf Hitler's mobile 'Einsatzgruppen' death squads have been identified at the ages of 94 and 95 - but there is not enough evidence to charge them for war crimes. Kurt Gosdek ...

A group of Nazi hunters says it has identified 76 men and four women - many of whom may still be alive - who ran mobile death squads killing thousands of Jews during the 1930s and 40s. The Simon ...

Richard Breitman is the author of "The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution" and "Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew." The gas chambers and ...