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Under the proposed legislation, violators would face three years in prison for a mention of “Polish death camps.” Pictured is Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Photograph: Istock
Poland denies new law will hinder debate about Nazi era

Poland has disputed claims that a new law to punish false references to “Polish” concentration or death camps will hinder discourse about the country’(...)

Rabbi of the Jewish community in Croatia, Luciano Mose Prelevic (left) and Ognjen Kraus, the co-ordinator of the country’s Jewish communities, lay a wreath at at the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp on April 15th. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Boycott at ‘Croatia’s Auschwitz’ over fears of far-right revival

When Croatian officials gather on Friday at the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp, where the country’s 1940s fascist regime slaughtered tens of(...)

Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s chief Nazi hunter, in front of a placard reading “Operation last chance - late but not too late”, in Berlin yesterday. Photograph: Gero Breloer/AP
Nazi ‘wanted’ posters spark controversy in Germany

The poster before the Austrian embassy in Berlin could be advertising fast food or washing powder. But, look closer, and you see the entrance to th(...)

László Csatáry is charged with the unlawful execution and torture of people, thus committing war crimes partly as a perpetrator, partly as an accomplice, said a spokeswoman for the chief prosecutor’s office in Budapest. Photograph: Reuters/Laszlo Balogh
Hungary charges Nazi war crimes suspect (98)

Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man with torturing Jews and sending thousands to death camps during the second World War. László Csat(...)