88-year-old Heinrich Boere, who has admitted to killing three men as part of a Waffen SS death squad, goes on trial today in state court in Aachen, FoxNews reports.
For more than six decades after the war, he managed to avoid punishment — first escaping from a prisoner of war camp in the Netherlands, then successfully eluding the courts in Germany. But today he goes on trial, charged with three murders — hits on a bicycle-shop owner, …

70 years ago today, the two evils of the world – communist Soviet Union and nazi Germany signed a pact that made them allies, divided Europe between the two powers at the expense of other European nations, and effectively was the main reason for the World War II.
On 23rd August, 1939, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyatcheslav Molotov, and his German counterpart Joachim von Ribbentrop signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the agreement of non-aggression between the two countries …

Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) have finally equated stalinism and nazism, saying that the Soviet Union was as guilty of Second World War as nazi Germany, and that both stalinism and nazism brought about crimes against humanity and genocide.
The organisation based their conclusion on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939 which they said was the precursor to the conflagration, the Daily Mail reports. The pact, named after the Soviet and Nazi foreign ministers …

Yes, it’s idiotic and ridiculous, but it is actually happening:
Eastern Europeans who believe their countries were occupied by the Soviet Union after the Second World War could soon be barred from Russia under new proposals given official weight by the Kremlin.
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The bill has attracted criticism because of its definition of Nazi rehabilitation, with those who “belittle” the Soviet Union’s role in the war or criticise it in any way being regarded as equally culpable as …