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The Danish government recently announced the phasing out of tax breaks for electric vehicles starting next year. The new provision would increase the price of all-electric cars significantly, but even ...
A German court has blocked the extradition to Denmark of a former member of the Nazi SS wanted in the Scandinavian country for the assassination of a journalist in 1943, it said Monday. A senior ...
BERLIN (AP) — Soren Kam, a former SS officer wanted for war crimes in his native Denmark, has died in Germany. He was 93. The Simon Wiesenthal Center counted Kam among its top targets for the killing ...
The battles of Narva and Cherkasi in 1944 were among the fiercest of the Eastern Front. Scandinavian, Dutch, Estonian, and German volunteers of the Waffen SS faced overwhelming Soviet offensives, ...
Straede is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, specializing in Holocaust studies, and the Consulting Historian for the Courage to Act: Rescue in ...
MUNICH, Germany — A German court has blocked the extradition to Denmark of a former member of the Nazi SS wanted in the Scandinavian country for the assassination of a journalist in 1943, it said ...
With the sentencing to prison Wednesday of a Auschwitz functionary, a man in his 90s, one might expect that the prosecution of alleged Nazi criminals is drawing to a close. World War II ended 70 years ...
One of the world’s most wanted Nazis has died peacefully at his home. Soren Kam died as a free man at the age of 93 in Germany on March 23, two weeks after his wife died. Kam was the fifth most-wanted ...