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Another German politician is attacked as concerns rise over violence ahead of EU elections in June

May. 08, 2024 06:58 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent Berlin politician was violently assaulted and suffered injuries to her head and neck, police said Wednesday, in the latest attack on elected officials that raises concern over rising political violence in Germany. Franziska Giffey, the city's top economic...

Police search Brussels office of prominent far-right German lawmaker over China spying allegations

May. 07, 2024 10:13 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities were searching the European Parliament office of a prominent German far-right lawmaker in Brussels on Tuesday, Germany’s top prosecutor’s office said. Maximilian Krah, the Alternative for Germany party’s top candidate in the upcoming European...

The yearly memorial march at the former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war

May. 07, 2024 03:00 AM EDT

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors and survivors of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel were among thousands who took part Monday in the March of the Living, a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz that honors the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and celebrates the state of Israel....

Skeletons from a former Hitler base were too decayed to determine who they were and how they died

May. 07, 2024 01:55 AM EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors have ended an investigation into human skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because their advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death, a spokesman said...

Today in History: May 7, Nazi Germany surrenders

May. 07, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 7, the 128th day of 2024. There are 238 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 7, 1945, Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims (rams), France,...

Donald Trump calls Joe Biden weak on antisemitism, ignoring his own rhetoric

May. 06, 2024 19:25 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue. But Trump's attacks ignore his own long history of rhetoric that invokes the language of Nazi Germany and plays on...

Germany recalls its ambassador in Russia for a week in protest over a hacker attack

May. 06, 2024 12:06 PM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Germany said Monday it recalled its ambassador to Russia for a week of consultations in Berlin following an alleged hacker attack on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party. Germany last week accused Russian military agents of hacking into the top echelons of Scholz's...

155 police officers injured in clashes with fans at German soccer match, most from tear-gas use

May. 06, 2024 10:31 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Some 155 police officers were injured in clashes with Dynamo Berlin and Energie Cottbus fans over the weekend – most of them from the use of their own tear gas. Berlin police said 116 officers suffered injuries from tear-gas use, 28 from assaults and 11 after being...

On D-Day, 19-year-old medic Charles Shay was ready to give his life, and save as many as he could

May. 06, 2024 09:30 AM EDT

BRETTEVILLE-L'ORGUEILLEUSE, France (AP) — On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic who was ready to give his life — and save as many as he could. Now 99, he’s spreading a message of peace with tireless dedication as he’s about to take part in the 80th...

A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7

May. 05, 2024 20:28 PM EDT

KIBBUTZ MEFALSIM, Israel (AP) — When Hamas fighters invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, the militant group that rules the Gaza Strip perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. So this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins on Sunday evening in Israel,...