Hitler biographer Joachim Fest dies
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German historian and publisher Joachim   Fest, author of a landmark biography of Adolf Hitler, has died   aged 79, German media reported on Tuesday.
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A German film about Hitler's final days portrays the man behind the monster
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Elliot Welles, a Holocaust survivor who found the officer who ordered his mother's death and turned that personal triumph into a relentless crusade to track down fugitive Nazis, has died at the age of 79.Comment
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Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor known as the Angel of Death, died in Brazil 25 years ago lonely and cash-strapped but apparently unrepentant, according to documents published this week.
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Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, author of the international bestseller &quot;Das Boot&quot; (The Boat) which became an Oscar-nominated film, has died at the age of 89, authorities said Friday.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, has died in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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Maurice Papon, the only French Nazi collaborator 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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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations chief and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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The Nobel laureate draws fire for his secret Nazi past. But his lies may have helped postwar Germany face some bitter truths
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Pierre Salinger, who was press secretary to Presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, dies of a heart attack.
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History condemns Italy's World War II dictator Benito Mussolini for his crimes, but a new book by his son depicts Il Duce as a caring father, who loved music and cried at the wedding of his beloved first-born daughter.
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The 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's elevation to German chancellor on Wednesday is one the country would prefer to forget, but the ignominious event that ultimately led to the deaths of millions remains part of the nation's weighted history.
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Maurice Papon, who was convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died, his lawyer said Saturday. He was 96.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag, one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to US policies after the September 11 attacks, has died at the age of 71.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President John F Kennedy and a distinguished journalist, has died of a heart attack in the south of France.
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Billionaire industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick, whose father was convicted at Nuremburg of using slave labor in Nazi Germany, has died at the age of 79, according to news reports Friday.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, an author and activist who called herself a &quot;zealot of seriousness,&quot; died Tuesday at the age of 71.