Ritchie Boy Guy Stern's WWII mementos, a collection that helped win the war
At 99, Guy Stern is one of the last living Ritchie Boys and showed 60 Minutes some of the honors and mementos from his decorated military career.
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At 99, Guy Stern is one of the last living Ritchie Boys and showed 60 Minutes some of the honors and mementos from his decorated military career.
"This is an unforgivable and outrageous statement and a terrible historic mistake and we expect an apology," Israel's foreign minister said.
"So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets... and then went on to lead a life that's got him into history books," Sen. Frank Niceley said.
Tennessee state Sen. Frank Niceley, a Republican, said homeless people should look at Adolf Hitler for inspiration to turn their life around. He made the comments Wednesday during a debate on a bill that would make camping or soliciting along state highways or exit ramps a misdemeanor.
"It's hard to wrap my mind around the fact that in '41, I had to hide in the basement of this building, and that I'm going to have do that again now."
In 2006, 60 Minutes showed to the public artifacts from the Nazi archives, including Oskar Schindler's list and the file that tracked the movement of Anne Frank.
In 2006, Scott Pelley took viewers into the vast archive, which contained millions of Nazi Holocaust documents kept out of the public eye for more than 60 years.
The full story of a secret U.S. WWII military intelligence unit bolstered by German-born Jews
The Ritchie Boys were responsible for gathering more than half the actionable intelligence on the battlefield during World War II. For the many German-born Jews in their ranks, defeating the Nazis was heartbreakingly personal. Jon Wertheim reports.
At 99, Guy Stern is one of the last living Ritchie Boys and showed 60 Minutes some of the honors and mementos from his decorated military career.
A 96-year-old woman is on trial outside Hamburg, Germany, accused of being an accessory to the murder of thousands of people at a Nazi concentration camp. This could be the last trial of its kind. Charlie D’Agata reports.
Austrians who fled their country during World War II were subsequently stripped of their citizenship. Now, a change in the law is allowing those Austrians, and their descendants, to reclaim their Austrian citizenship and heritage. Roxanna Saberi reports.
A high school in California has been renamed to honor former teacher and Olympian Archie Williams. The school had been stripped of its name last year following nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. Vern Glenn reports.
Bob Simon reports on the aftermath of the disaster in Fukushima, Japan, and finds toxic ghost towns frozen in time; then, nurse practitioners are providing badly needed healthcare to the uninsured working poor in Appalachia -- medical mercy for those left out of Obamacare and ineligible for Medicaid; and, Morley Safer reports on the discovery of the largest cache of missing art since WWII and the battle over its ownership.
Amazon has redesigned its shopping app logo after some people said the logo that debuted in January resembled Hitler. CBS Los Angeles has the details.
Kentucky Police Commissioner Rodney Brewer has resigned after a report detailing Kentucky Police Academy used Hitler quotes in training.
News about the slideshow was first broken by high school student journalists.
New information came to light on the Nazis appropriation of Jewish assets with the discovery of a cache of art inside a Munich apartment - many of them masterpieces and owned by Jews before they were stolen. Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Dey, who was just 17 when he joined the unit of Hitler's SS tasked with running death camps, could be the last Nazi to face justice for Holocaust atrocities.
New Zealand writer-director Taika Waititi's rollicking World War II satire centers on a German boy, an aspiring young Nazi, who fantasizes about his best buddy Adolf Hitler while discovering his mother is harboring a Jewish girl in their house. Audacious and touching, the film has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Tracy Smith talks with Waititi and with Oscar-nominee Scarlett Johansson.
May 8th marked the 75th anniversary of "Victory in Europe Day." But with the coronavirus pandemic barring public gatherings, many celebrations were either limited or canceled altogether. David Martin reports.
Next Friday, VE Day will commemorate 75 years since the end of World War II. But celebrations have been largely canceled across the U.K. because of the coronavirus pandemic. In this week's edition of "London Calling," Simon Bates reflects on the subdued celebration of a turning point in history.
He also likened President Trump to Hitler and suggested "the world would be a much better place" without him
"This kind of behavior will not be tolerated on my watch," said West Virginia Governor Jim Justice.
He denounced a resurgence of homophobia on Friday by comparing the rhetoric of anti-gay politicians to that of Hitler