Nazism

A centenarian former Nazi camp guard could stand trial in Germany after a regional court dismissed a ruling which had found he was unfit to stand trial. Gregor Formanek is accused of participating in the murder of 3,300 people when he was a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin,

An appeal by a 99-year-old woman convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 10,505 people when she was secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp has been rejected. Germany's Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a

Australia is set to impose a nationwide ban on Nazi symbols in a bid to crack down on far-right groups. Public displays of the swastika or SS insignia could attract a sentence of up to a year in jail. But the laws will not apply to the Nazi salute.

A former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people. Irmgard Furchne, 97, worked from June 1943 to April 1945 as a stenographer and typist at the Stutthof concentration camp, where around 65,000 people were killed, including 28,00

A 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, making him the oldest man to stand trial over the atrocities of the Second World War. Josef Schuetz was found guilty to being an accessory to the murder of more than 3,500 prisoners as well as an acce

A serving police officer has been convicted of a terror offence for the first time in UK history after a court found he was a member of the proscribed neo-Nazi group National Action (NA). Ben Hannam, a 22-year-old Metropolitan Police officer, joined the group in March 2016, nine months before it was

A 100-year-old man who served as a Nazi guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin has been charged with aiding and abetting murder in 3,518 cases.

A court in Germany has fined a University of Warwick historian €4,000 (£3,700) after she breached an injunction regarding claims that a concentration camp prisoner had had a lesbian affair with an SS guard. In April, Frankfurt regional court ruled that Dr Anna Hájková, assoc

A former Nazi concentration camp guard has been found guilty of complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 prisoners.

Denial of the holocaust is not a human right, the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously ruled. A neo-Nazi politician, Udo Pastörs, who had been convicted in his native Germany after denying the Holocaust in a speech, made a complaint under article 10: freedom of expression.