Newly discovered photos show horror of Nazi's Kristallnacht up close

The violence of the pogrom exactly 84 years ago is widely considered a starting point for the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered.

• Nov 9, 2022

17 dead, 24 wounded in Russia school shooting

Russia's Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the school, and said he was wearing a shirt bearing "Nazi symbols."

• Sep 26, 2022

Directors discuss new Holocaust documentary

Co-directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick join "CBS Mornings" to discuss their new PBS documentary "The U.S. and the Holocaust." The film looks at how U.S. policies impacted Nazi Germany and Jewish people trying to escape.

• Sep 14, 2022

How America failed European Jews during the Holocaust

A new PBS documentary series, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," examines how United States policy was not always an open door for Jews in Europe who sought to flee Nazi persecution before and during World War II. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein about the ways in which America failed – politically and institutionally – during a seismic humanitarian catastrophe.

• Sep 4, 2022

Poland to demand $1.3 trillion in WWII reparations from Germany

Berlin considers the matter closed, but Poland says negotiations on reparations will be a "long and not an easy path," but "will bring success."

• Sep 1, 2022

Georgia elementary school under fire for logo resembling Nazi eagle

The school has said it would "pause to consider" the new logo after drawing backlash.

• Jul 21, 2022

Ashes of 8,000 Nazi victims found in two mass graves in Poland

Investigators say the Nazis tried to hide the executions by incinerating the bodies and planting trees on the burial pits.

• Jul 14, 2022

Oldest person ever tried for Nazis' WWII crimes sentenced at age of 101

Josef Schütz, a former Nazi SS guard, was sentenced to five years in prison for "complicity in murders during his service in the Sachsenhausen camp."

• Jun 28, 2022

Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor says Putin "certainly" a war criminal

Benjamin Ferencz, who's now 102, has joined Ukraine's foreign minister in advocating for the creation of a Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunal to hold Russia to account.

• May 12, 2022

German police thwart teen's "suspected Nazi terror attack"

"Xenophobic and right-wing extremist material" was discovered in the home of the 16-year-old suspect, along with bladed weapons and explosives.

• May 12, 2022

The story of the Ritchie Boys

The Ritchie Boys were responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. For the many German-born Jews in their ranks, defeating the Nazis was heartbreakingly personal. Jon Wertheim reports.

• May 9, 2021

96-year-old woman tried for Nazi atrocities

In Germany, a 96-year-old woman is facing charges of accessory to the systematic murder of more than 11,000 people at a Nazi concentration camp where she served as secretary. Charlie D'Agata is at the courthouse and highlights how this case reflects a race against time in the hunt for justice, as both eyewitnesses to the Holocaust and those responsible for it succumb to old age.

• Oct 27, 2021

Holocaust survivors in Ukraine traumatized by Russia's invasion

"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."

• Mar 7, 2022

Alabama teacher accused of having class perform Nazi salute

A Jewish student said school officials reprimanded him and told him to apologize to the teacher after he shared a video of the incident on social media.

• Feb 12, 2022