The Holocaust is now a part of history, but when American GIs entered Dachau on April 29, they were seeing the horror for the first time. My grandfather had no idea what he was walking into.

As in Dachau and in Terezin, thousands of visitors pass through this Holocaust Memorial in Prague. For many, it is a visit to a place where the past seemingly exists only as a ghost.

The view through the second story windows: crematoria. Auschwitz shows you the scale of Nazi evil, while ARCHER proves its banality. Mass murderers can be loving fathers.

The gallows at Dachau faced the crematoria. The final images many Jews saw before their necks were snapped were clouds of foul-smelling smoke generated by the burning bodies of their friends and ...

In the midst of Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and a new U.S.-Ukraine trade deal on mineral rights, we mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. At 12:01 A.M. on May 8 ...

The Dachau memorial is hosting commemorative events and dedicating a plaque in honor of the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry Division that first encountered prisoners alive at the camp 80 years ago.

Clouds hang over the crematorium at the former Dachau concentration camp, where more than 40,000 people were murdered or died of illness and hunger, and more than 200,000 were imprisoned by the Nazis.

Marowitz was so angered by what he saw at Dachau that he brought the hat outside and stomped on it in a rage, pretending Hitler’s head was in the hat. He then put the hat on his head and used a ...

Later, "some of the men from the Headquarters section walked into the crematorium area. There were several incinerators and other buildings spread out in a half circle. In one circle, they saw ...

Walking through the gates of Dachau, they were confronted with a harrowing sight: boxcars filled with bodies of Jewish victims. Nearby, a crematorium bore witness to the systematic extermination ...