At 22, Army medic LeRoy "Pete" Petersohn helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen and documented its horrors in a letter home, testimony his son says Petersohn felt compelled to record ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial. Fotokerschi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the watchtowers and part of the wall with barbed wire at the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial site. Hannes Draxler ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - A former concentration camp in Austria has been vandalized with anti-Semitic and anti-Turkish graffiti by suspected far-right activists, police and officials said on Friday. Abuse ...

An exhibition of empty dresses and blood red ropes hanging inside an underground tunnel dug by concentration camp inmates in Austria during World War II seeks to bring the public closer to the ...

Twenty-seven displaced Jews from Austria have identified 40 former S.S. officers and guards at the Mauthausen and Ebensee concentration camps, it was reported here today. The guards are awaiting trial ...

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of a swathe of Nazi concentration camps, the hitherto neglected site of the Gusen camp in northern Austria has become a bone of contention, ...

>VIENNA, Austria (AP) – Austrian prosecutors are examining new allegations against a female Nazi concentration camp guard who evaded prosecution decades ago for lack of evidence, officials said ...

So Auschwitz and a handful of other death camps were expressly built as part of what was termed the “final solution.” And it was for the mass extermination of targeted populations, particularly Jewish ...

Austrian Interior Minister Maria Fekter - nicknamed "Gravel Mizzi" - in all seriousness proposed a revival of concentration camps in Austria for asylum seekers on Sunday in a TV discussion. According ...

New clashes have been occurring in Vienna between holders, of “Aryanized” property who tried to hold a meeting to denounce restitution laws which would force them to return such property to former ...