He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Merkel witnessed how then-President George H.W. Bush convinced France and the United Kingdom to put aside their fears about a new German dominance over Europe and allow their former World War II ...

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.

The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

The presidential office in Berlin announced that Horst Köhler, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, passed away early Saturday morning at the age of 81. Horst Köhler, a well-known ...

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

“I think there’s too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that,” the ally of US President ... for Germany to stop focusing on atoning for its World War II crimes ...

(photo credit: COURTESY INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING) Holocaust survivor George Shefi received the Federal Order of Merit from German President ... just before World War II.