Poland fury at Holocaust comment by FBI's James Comey BBC News Europe 19 April 2015 Poland has summoned the US ambassador and demanded an apology over comments on the Holocaust by FBI director James Comey. The foreign ministry said Mr Comey had suggested in a Washington Post article that some Poles were accomplices. After the summons US envoy Stephen Mull said he made it clear the US believed "Nazi Germany alone" was responsible. Six million Polish

Germany, Cambodia, and a dark past Joachim Baron von Marschall, Euro Daily 30 March 2015   The stupa we are inaugurating today is no normal building. It is a physical structure which attempts to commemorate the more than 12,000 people who were tortured and sent to their deaths here at Toul Sleng [a torture center in Phnom Penh, also known as S-21 prison] during the terror regime of the Khmer Rouge. Men, women and children were all treated without

Greece’s new prime minister wants Germany to pay for Nazi war crimes Washington Post 26 January 2015   After the seismic victory of Greece’s leftist Syriza party in national polling Sunday, the country’s new prime minister, 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras, is leading all of Europe down an uncertain path. Syriza has vowed to renegotiate the crippling debts saddled on the Greek economy by European lenders — a move that some fear could threaten

Some Holocaust lessons being forgotten as survivors gather at Auschwitz 70 years on Vanessa Gera, The Associated Press 26 January 2015   OSWIECIM, Poland - A decade ago, 1,500 Holocaust survivors travelled to Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation. On Tuesday, for the 70th anniversary, organizers are expecting 300, the youngest in their 70s. "In 10 years there might be just one," said Zygmunt Shipper, an 85-year-old

Leaders rally Germans to push back against growing anti-Islam protests Robert Marquand, The Christian Science Monitor 6 January 2015   German Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled to former East Germany Monday to denounce growing nightly anti-Muslim rallies and to link the spirit of hatred behind them to darker trends including anti-immigration and anti-Semitism, the latter being a radioactive postwar symbol and warning.  In Dresden, 18,000 Germans

Germany commits 750,000 euros to help refugees in Ethiopia By Tesfa-Alem Tekle, Sudan Tribune 24 August 2014 Germany has contributed 750,000 euros to provide ongoing humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia, mostly from South Sudan. In a statement issued on Saturday, the German embassy said that the donation would go directly to support relief operations by the World Food Program (WFP), which had been facing a funds

Russia sanctions will hurt German economy but needed - Vice Chancellor By Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters   August 3, 2014   BERLIN, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Tough new economic sanctions against Russia will hurt Germany's economy but they are necessary for the sake of peace in Europe, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said in a television interview on Sunday. The European Union imposed sanctions that took effect on Friday targeting Russia's banking, defence

A Retiree, 89, Is Held in Deaths at Auschwitz By ERIC LICHTBLAU, The New York Times June 19th, 2014 WASHINGTON — The 89-year-old Johann Breyer shuffled unsteadily into a federal courtroom in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, using a cane for support as he sank slowly into a chair at the defense table. The retired toolmaker from what was then Czechoslovakia, who immigrated to the United States in 1952, was thin and pale and dressed in a green uniform

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