Nazism

Some of the AP Paris staff join Paris Bureau Chief Ed Kennedy, seated center left, for a farewell get-together in the early hours of May 18, 1945, just before he embarked for the United States at the request of AP General Manager Kent Cooper. (AP Photo/Pete Carroll, File)

AP WAS THERE: Journalists chronicled the Nazi surrenders and end of World War II in Europe

AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis’ historic defeat 80 years ago this week. Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end in May 1945.
 
In this Nov. 5, 2018 photo Walter Frankenstein poses for a photo at the orphanage memorial site for an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin, dies at 100

 
Bryce Mitchell is seen before his mixed martial arts bout at UFC Fight Night on Dec. 7, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan, File)

UFC fighter says he is ‘definitely not a Nazi’ after facing criticism for pro-Hitler comments

 
Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor is interviewed in London, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Manfred Goldberg wants you to know how the Nazis took his brother’s life. And how an angel saved his

 
CORRECTS TO JACOB HERSANT, NOT TIM SMARTT - Jacob Hersant speaks outside the Melbourne Magistrates' Court in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, before his is sentenced after he was convicted for performing the Nazi salute. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Self-described Nazi becomes first person jailed in Australia for performing outlawed salute

 

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Leader of neo-Nazi “murder cult” extradited to the US from Moldova

 

Ukraine president and first lady place wreath at memorial in honor of victims of WWII

 

Dutch royals and PM at WWII remembrance in Amsterdam 80 years after the liberation from the Nazis

 

Secret note hidden in Dachau-built ‘Violin of Hope’ tells a tale of survival and craftsmanship

 

Auschwitz survivor to keep telling his story, especially after granddaughter survived Oct. 7 attack

 

Dutch delve into family pasts as the names of accused Nazi collaborators released

 

Self-described Nazi becomes first person jailed in Australia for performing outlawed salute

 

The story of the liberation of VIP prisoners held hostage by Nazis in Italy

 

Nazi-looted Monet artwork returned to family generations later

 
Francoise Parlagi, center, and Helen Lowe, far left, descendants of the original owners the Claude Monet painting entitled "Bord de Mer," smile as it is returned to them at the FBI New Orleans office on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Nazi-looted Monet artwork returned to family generations later

 
FILE - The Nashville, Tenn., skyline is seen on July 11, 2022. For weeks, neo-Nazis have made repeat appearances in Nashville, livestreaming antisemitic antics for shock value. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Nashville grapples with lingering neo-Nazi presence in tourist-friendly city

 

The war came to her: Pat Owtram gleaned critical intelligence by listening in on German U-boats

 
FILE - The morning fog lifts beyond the Burton M. Cross Building, left, and the State House, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Augusta, Maine. Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law a bill Friday, April 12, 2024, restricting paramilitary training in response to a neo-Nazi who wanted to create a training center for a “blood tribe.” (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine governor signs bill restricting paramilitary training in response to neo-Nazi’s plan

 
FILE - U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf from a landing craft in the days following D-Day and the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France at Normandy in June 1944 during World War II. France is getting ready to show its gratitude towards World War II veterans who will come, many for the last time, on Normandy beaches for D-Day ceremonies that will come as part of a series of major commemorations this year and next marking eight decades since the defeat of the Nazis. (Bert Brandt/Pool via AP, File)

France gets ready to say ‘merci’ to World War II veterans for D-Day’s 80th anniversary this year

 
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives for a cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Scholz condemns alleged plot by far-right groups to deport millions if they take power

 
This photo combination provided by the Metropolitan Police on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 shows Christopher Gibbons, left and Tyrone Patten-Walsh. A neo-Nazi podcaster who called for the deaths of Prince Harry and his young son has been sentenced to prison with his co-host for encouraging terrorism. A London judge on Thursday called Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh “dedicated and unapologetic white supremacists.” Gibbons had said the Duke of Sussex should be killed for treason and called for his son, Archie, to be "put down.” (Metropolitan Police via AP)

Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son

 
Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya, left, shuffles papers as he listens to Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council as the war in Ukraine and recent attacks by Russia were discussed Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Russia claims `neo-Nazis’ were at wake for Ukrainian soldier in village café where missile killed 52

 
Yaroslav Hunka, right, waits for the arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Onatario on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons apologized Sunday, Sept. 24, for recognizing Hunka, who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II. Just after Zelenskyy delivered an address in the House of Commons on Friday, Canadian lawmakers gave the 98-year-old a standing ovation when Speaker Anthony Rota drew attention to him. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP)

Leader of Canada’s House of Commons apologizes for honoring man who fought for Nazis

 
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser briefs the media after the cabinet meeting of the German government in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser bans neo-Nazi group "Hammerskins Germany". Police search at least 28 flats in 10 federal states since this morning. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Germany bans neo-Nazi group with links to US, conducts raids in 10 German states

 
Crowd attending a Mass in which the Vatican beatified the Polish Ulma family, including small children, who were killed by the Nazis in 1944 for having sheltered Jews, in the Ulmas' home village of Markowa Poland, on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. The Vatican beatified also the Ulmas' unborn child, saying it was born during the killings and was baptized in the martyred mother's blood. (AP Photo)

The Vatican beatifies a Polish family of 9 killed by the Nazis for sheltering Jews

 
AfD members, Bjorn Hocke, left, Robert Sesselmann, centre, Stephan Brandner, 3rd from left and Tino Chrupalla are photographed at the AfD election party, in Sonneberg, Germany, Sunday, June 25, 2023. Sesselmann has received the most votes in the first round of the run off elections. Alternative for Germany hope to win the political party's first-ever governing post. (Martin Schutt/dpa via AP)

After a far-right victory in German county, a man in neo-Nazi clothing hands balloons to children

 

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Full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s hidden annex opens in NYC

 

Zelenskyy says Putin’s terms on Ukraine are a ‘a renaissance of Nazism’

 

As number of Holocaust survivors dwindles, one man is determined to share how he survived Nazi camps