Nazi collaborator Papon wants state medal in grave
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Convicted French Nazi collaborator  Maurice Papon asked to be buried wearing his Legion d'Honneur  medal for services to France, his lawyer said on Sunday,  causing fresh controversy after his death.
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Prince Harry, who provoked outrage by wearing a swastika armband to a private party, is considering invitations from Jewish groups to visit the Auschwitz death camp, a royal official said Friday.
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Jewish groups and lawmakers criticized Prince Harry on Thursday for wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party, with one group urging him to visit the Auschwitz death camp, despite an apology from the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Sixty-one years after Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was summarily executed, one of his grandsons has demanded that his remains be exhumed and an official post-mortem carried out.
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Wolfgang Clement, the German economics minister, will host his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, in Berlin on October 14, seeking to bury the hatchet after a string of French decisions that offended German ...
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Vandals targeted the grave of Marshal Philippe Petain, the leader of France's wartime Vichy regime that collaborated with the Nazis, an official said Wednesday.
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With name after name engraved on pale stone walls, a new monument in Paris' Jewish quarter pays tribute to the 76,000 Jews rounded up in France during the Holocaust and sent to Nazi death camps.
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Maurice Papon was a prominent French functionary convicted in 1998 of complicity in Nazi crimes against humanity during the German occupation in World War II.
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The director of the largest archive of Nazi death camp records sought approval Wednesday to prepare the documents for international access, saying he expects the long-closed collection will be ready for research within a year.
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RAMALLAH (dpa) - The Palestinian Authority is considering creating a museum commemorating Yasser Arafat who died last week in a Paris hospital, the Israeli Itim news agency reported Tuesday.
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A prominent French political figure who ordered hundreds of Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II will be buried wearing his Legion of Honor medal, his lawyer said Sunday, even though the deceased man ...Comment
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Maurice Papon, the only French Nazi official to be convicted for his role in the deportation of Jews during World War Two, died on Saturday aged 96, police sources said.
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Germany is struggling to contain an  embarrassing and potentially explosive debate on the Holocaust,  just as it prepares to join other nations in commemorating the  victims of Nazi aggression at Auschwitz.
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The mushy remains of a tomato thrown at a prominent member of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats has posed a legal dilemma for authorities trying to assess how to punish the thrower.
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Maurice Papon's lawyer has said that the French Nazi collaborator would be laid to rest with the Legion of Honour even though he was stripped of the order for deporting Jews to Nazi death camps.
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French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon believed he could do no wrong if he was acting in the service of the state.
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A Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis was honored Monday in schools across France, although some teachers defied an order by President Nicolas Sarkozy to have his final letter read aloud, saying the government was trying to twist history into propaganda.