French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party stormed out of parliament Tuesday after a Socialist MP accused Interior Minister Claude Guéant (pictured) of reviving Nazi ideology with a comment about not all civilisations being equal.
French authorities have launched an investigation into a Nazi-themed stag party in the French Alps that was attended by a British Conservative MP. Aiden Burley (pictured) was later sacked by his party for his "offensive and foolish" behaviour.
Former Hungarian gendarmerie captain Sandor Kepiro, once the world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, has died in Budapest aged 97, six weeks after he was cleared of ordering mass executions in the Serbian town of Novi Sad in January 1942.
Far-right groups have been gaining support in a region of eastern Germany. The NPD party has a firm following in the area of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, despite its leader having been convicted of racial abuse. The trend has both local and national observers concerned. Our correspondent takes a closer look at the growing popularity of Germany's far-right ahead of regional elections this weekend.
A court in Budapest has found Hungarian war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro not guilty of ordering the rounding up and execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in Serbia during World War II.
91-year-old John Demjanjuk, convicted Thursday of being an accessory to the murder of more than 28,000 people in a Nazi death camp, will be released pending an appeal of his five-year prison sentence.
A German court Thursday found John Demjanjuk, 91, guilty of being an accessory to murder while working as a guard in a Nazi death camp during World War II and sentenced him to five years in prison. The defence says it will appeal.
Sandor Kepiro, a 97-year-old former Hungarian military officer, appeared in a Budapest court on Thursday over the killing of Serbian civilians during World War II in what could be the last major trial of a suspected Nazi criminal.
Mubarak has gone, but Egyptian protesters stand their ground - crowds in Tahrir Square call for justice, and an end to a military crackdown on their freedom to rally. And 50 years after Adolf Eichmann's trial, we look at a new exhibition teaching young Israelis to remember the Holocaust mastermind.
A Polish court has sentenced Swedish national Anders Hogstrom to nearly three years in prison Thursday, for having plotted the theft of Auschwitz's infamous "Arbeit macht frei" sign which hung at the entrance of the former Nazi concentration camp.
