Prosecutors in Germany have begun proceedings against a company that makes a card game featuring Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, among others, they said Tuesday.
The third of C.S. Lewis' "Narnia" books to make it to the big screen almost didn't happen when Disney lost the faith after the "disappointing" returns for "Prince Caspian," with its worldwide box office gross of $419 million.
With the midterm elections over, it's time for Americans to leave behind the recent attempts to demonize an entire people. We needn't look to Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa for examples of the labeling and abusing of others. The suspicions promoted about Hispanics as criminals and Muslims as terrorists were only the latest reminders of discrimination throughout our own history.
The tattered journal, its pages yellow with age, contains the painful memories of a U.S. medic, a man who recorded the deaths of soldiers who survived one of World War II's bloodiest battles yet met their end as slaves in Nazi Germany.
POW Tony Acevedo's diary chronicles his capture by Nazis, his labor camp enslavement and the death march he endured.
It's rare that a town's charm will get me out of bed early. The postcard-pretty, lake-cuddling town of Hallstatt, two hours south of Salzburg, is one of those places.
Leslie Buck, designer of New York City's iconic blue-and-white coffee cup, died Monday at home in Glen Cove, New York. He was 87 years old.
It was a Vatican announcement guaranteed to spark controversy.
The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany on direct orders from the spy agency's chief, a top Russian security official said this week.
New evidence that Adolf Hitler's remains were burned in 1970 and thrown in a river. CNN's Matthew Chance reports.
The woman's Halloween costume featured a Third Reich motif.
For Thomas Tugend, there was no doubt which side he was fighting for as a young infantryman in Europe in World War II. Actually, the choice was made for him in 1933, when he was just a child.
A German-born WWII veteran tells photojournalist Gabe Ramirez about his personal fight against his former country.
"Saturday Night Live" was formed in the crucible of the mid-1970s, when Watergate brought respect for politicians to all-time lows, the counterculture was taking over comedy, and many television viewers were seeking out something fresh and bold.
On a sand swept stretch of Afghanistan, a high-ranking Polish general put his country's mission there into perspective.
Quentin Tarantino's new movie "Inglourious Basterds" comes with a film inside the film, a Nazi propaganda movie promoting the glory of Germany's Third Reich.
Maj. Gen. Vincent Boles talks with CNN's Wayne Drash about honoring WWII soldiers held as slaves in Nazi Germany.
Hobbled with age, weathered with time, the World War II veterans stood at attention. One by one, a two-star general delivered flags flown over the Pentagon in their honor. He looked them in their eyes and snapped his right hand in salute.
Thelma Gutierrez reports on long overdue military honors for survivors of World War II Nazi slave camps.
Samuel Fahrer and Sidney Lipson shake hands and smile. It's the first time the men have seen each other in 64 years. They were U.S. soldiers back on a forced death march in Nazi Germany in April 1945.
Five people were injured when a natural-gas pipeline exploded in southwest Moscow early Sunday, sending flames up to 300 meters into the air, a Russian state-run news agency reported.
The photograph is a jarring image that shows Nazi Party members, shovels in hand, digging up graves of American soldiers held as slaves by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Anthony Acevedo, a U.S. soldier, was held in captivity by Nazis. Here, he reads a diary entry about when he was freed.
An oil painting was returned Tuesday to the estate of a Jewish art dealer who was forced to consign the painting and other artwork under Nazi Germany before fleeing the country.
Israel's vice prime minister compared Iran to Nazi Germany on Tuesday at the site of one of World War II's most notorious death camps.
Three professors and a former professor at Columbia University's Teachers College received hate mail this week, the New York Police Department said. It's the campus that was shaken by several bias crimes directed at black and Jewish professors in 2007.
Elisa Schindler says she is relieved her father, the late Rabbi Alexander Schindler, didn't live to see the destruction caused by Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff.
The Madoff scandal is forcing a prominent rabbi's family to sell his sacred religious items. CNN's Mary Snow reports.
The Vatican said Friday it is not satisfied by the apology issued by a Catholic bishop who denied the Holocaust, saying the cleric must still clearly "distance himself" from the controversial comments.
France bears responsibility for deporting Jews to their deaths in concentration camps during World War II, the country's highest court ruled Monday.
The U.S. Army says it will honor the "heroism and sacrifice" of 350 U.S. soldiers who were held as slaves by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Two U.S. lawmakers have urged U.S. Army Secretary Peter Geren to recognize 350 American soldiers held as slaves by Nazi Germany during World War II, saying "these heroes have not received the recognition and honor they deserve."
Examine the history of prejudice and discrimination during Adolf Hitler's rise to power and during the Holocaust.
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, a champion of the far-right who drew criticism for perceived pro-Nazi comments, died in a car accident Saturday, Austrian police said. He was 58.
Before its occupation by Nazi Germany in 1939, Poland was home to Europe's largest Jewish community, and its capital Warsaw was the continent's largest Jewish city.
Hans Ertl, who helped shape the official visual record of Hitler's regime, left behind a veritable archive - in a shoe box
China proved an acquisitive first-time Olympic host, topping the gold-medal chart with one of the most dominating and diverse performances ever. The United States, Britain and an array of small nations also had reasons to celebrate
Caught red-bottomed in a spanking orgy, Formula One chief Max Mosley argues there's nothing wrong with the kinky habit. Some psychologists say he may be right
Germany on Tuesday inaugurated a memorial to the thousands of homosexuals persecuted and killed under the Nazis, a monument meant both to honor a long-ignored group of victims and to make a statement against ongoing intolerance.
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes -- from the gun-packing maverick who shoots first and asks questions later to the unlikely hero, blinking with surprise at his newly found ass-kicking skills.
An arms procession is designed to show how Putin revived Russia's fortunes,
armed forces and its national pride
The ever more pastoral Pope summons healing and unity in his homily at St. Patrick's Cathedral
Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, is complaining about his treatment in jail.
The discovery of two albums detailing stolen French art that the Nazis were to take to Germany for Adolf Hitler's personal collection was announced Thursday at the National Archives.
German researchers are testing a controversial theory, using a low-carb, high-fat diet to help the sickest of cancer patients
Eleven extras were injured on the set of Tom Cruise's new movie Sunday when they fell out of a moving truck, the Associated Press reports.
This is where we've arrived in this country: You have the constitutional right to burn an American flag, but you can get into trouble for simply flying a foreign one.
Iran, whose president has labeled the attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews during World War II a "myth" and called for the destruction of Israel, announced Sunday it will hold a conference on the Holocaust.
Standing at what was once a U.S. Revolutionary War battlefield, about 125 Neo-Nazis and sympathizers held a rally Saturday while two groups of counter demonstrators protested.
Americans don't fare well in novelist John Burdett's Thailand.
Berlin has unveiled a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, ending 17 years of charged debate over how Germany should remember that grim period of its history.
U.S. President George W. Bush has arrived in Moscow to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin and attend a Red Square military parade marking 60 years since the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
A San Diego, California-based group that calls itself a health and human rights organization recently submitted a proposed bill to Congress called the Male Genital Mutilation Bill ("MGM bill"). The bill, if adopted, would ban the practice of circumcising baby boys.
Depending on the creator, the "what if" game of alternative history can be enlightening or absurd, scintillating or silly.
Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and at least five others died in an explosion at a stadium in the Chechen capital, officials said.
Fifty-five nations at an international conference have pledged to suppress rising anti-Semitism and agreed that the Middle East conflict cannot justify attacks on Jews.
German President Johannes Rau appealed to European governments to step up the fight against anti-Semitism as he opened a 55-nation conference in Berlin.
In the infancy of a wicked regime, the very first year of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship, the new German chancellor signed a chilling mandate: the law for the prevention of genetically diseased offspring.
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Twenty years ago, Jeremy Rifkin co-wrote Who Should Play God, which predicted advances in biotechnology like cloning and warned that they posed ethical dilemmas we ignored at our peril. In his new ...
This is the time of year most Americans think seriously about contributing to one or more charitable organizations. The holidays are a reminder that others could use a hand. December is also the la...
One regrets the recurrent temptation, thus far irresistible around our house, to argue with E.D. Hirsch Jr., professor of English at the University of Virginia. His basic proposition is sound. One ...
When oil prices shot up recently, geologists took another look at marginal fields that weren't worth much with crude at $18 a barrel. But Alexander Benton, 47, was way ahead of them. His company, B...
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Is this any way to make an exit? The same day that Unisys reported a $640 million annual loss for 1989, Chairman Michael Blumenthal, 64, announced that he was retiring from the computer manufacture...
In a rare fit of international cooperation, Switzerland froze the Swiss bank accounts of deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his family. The assets, it seems, were quietly being withd...
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