Contrary to myth, the Nazis weren't crazy. But during the winter of 1944-45, with the Allied and Soviet armies closing in on Berlin, German leaders made an insane decision. Instead of doing whatever they could to hold out as long as possible, they sped up the Holocaust. ...more

April 2, 2009

Israeli agents who kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in 1960 found the notorious death camp doctor Josef Mengele but let him get away, one of the operatives said Tuesday. ...more

September 3, 2008

Israeli agents who kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in 1960 found the notorious death camp doctor Josef Mengele but let him get away, one of the operatives said Tuesday. ...more

September 3, 2008

Irena Sendler - credited with saving an estimated 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some in baskets - died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98. ...more

May 13, 2008