Adolf Hitler definitely died in 1945 in Berlin, from taking cyanide and a bullet, according to French researchers who were given rare access to fragments of the dictator's teeth held in Moscow.
German authorities said on Friday they had carried out raids at the homes of elderly former SS soldiers accused of war crimes, including involvement in a 1944 civilian massacre in France.
France will throw open access to police and legal archives drawn from one of the country's darkest hours, when the Vichy regime collaborated with the Nazis, authorities said
Sunday.
Remains belonging to victims of Nazi anatomy professor August Hirt have been found at a forensic medicine institute in eastern France, local authorities said in a statement Saturday.
A teacher at a high school in central France has been temporarily suspended after her pupils reported her to education chiefs for allegedly repeatedly defending Adolf Hitler during German lessons.
A dog owner in eastern France has given in to the town mayor's demand to change the names of his dogs because they obviously "make people think of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun".
Authorities in France have scrapped a planned auction of personal effects belonging to Hitler and Hermann Goering after the country’s largest Jewish group, backed by the Culture Minister, lodged a complaint.
A French veteran made more than €10,000 Friday selling four photo albums he took from Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat as "a souvenir" in the final days of World War II.
Prosecutors in France are to examine whether one of the country's MPs can be charged with "justifying a crime against humanity" after he allegedly suggested "Hitler did not kill enough" Gypsies (Roma) during World War Two, during a heated row with a French traveller community.
A dog-owner in the south of France was given a jail sentence for setting his dogs, one named "Adolf", on a neighbour, a Frenchman of North African origins, it was reported this week. The accused is said to have shouted “Get the Arabs!” before unleashing his mutts.
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French prosecutors said Wednesday they had opened a formal probe into a Nazi-themed party attended by a British Conservative lawmaker that led to him losing his post as a parliamentary aide.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A website run by a senior police officer's wife has been selling figurines of top Nazis.</span></p>
