German Hitler biographer Joachim Fest dies at 79
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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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The author of the German war novel "Das Boot", Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, has died, his spokeswoman said on Friday. He was 89.
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Vivian Green, a religious historian at Oxford University who was an inspiration for John le Carre's fictional spymaster George Smiley, has died. He was 89.
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Gen Alain Le Ray, a leading figure in the Resistance who escaped from Germany's notorious Colditz Castle, dies aged 96.
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BERLIN -- Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany expressed shame yesterday over the horrors of the Nazi era, acknowledging that Adolf Hitler's regime enjoyed wide support among Germans and promising that his country will always try to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust.
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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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Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half century who introduced the concept of &quot;camp&quot; to mainstream culture and also influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday.
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French novelist Pierre Daninos, best known for his best-seller "The diary of Major Thompson", died at the age of 91.
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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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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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The must-buy gift for German far-right extremists this Christmas is a 2005 pocket diary that sets out red-letter days for neo-Nazis, from Hitler's birthday to forgotten SS anniversaries.
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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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German police have arrested 110 people at a march to commemorate the death of Adolf Hitler&#39;s deputy, Rudolf Hess. Some 74 of those detained belonged to a Neo-Nazi movement and were held for displaying banned Nazi symbols and carrying weapons, police said.
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Convicted French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon dies, aged 96, a few days after undergoing heart surgery,
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Wednesday is the 75th anniversary of the day Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in Germany, and the occasion has prompted yet a new round of soul-searching.
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One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime's program to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said Tuesday.
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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.