Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around 1.1 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of ...

This seemingly ordinary house next door serves as a chilling reminder of "just how close heaven can be to hell on earth." ...

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Witold Pilecki did the only logical thing for a someone as patriotic ...

The former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss has been transformed into a research centre devoted to fighting extremism ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to ...

[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about 399 BC when the Greek philosopher Socrates was required to drink poison for heresy and corruption of youth.[2] Mosaic Law codified many ...

One of the darkest chapters of human history, the Holocaust claimed the lives of about six million Jewish people, roughly two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe before the war. In the ensuing ...

At least 102 men have been executed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past week, with another 70 still set to be killed, officials have said. According to the Central African country’s ...

Syria’s interim justice minister has come under scrutiny following the resurfacing of old videos reportedly showing him reading execution sentences in Idlib. The videos, verified by the fact ...

An Arizona death row inmate has asked the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than officials were planning. Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, had previously ...

Footage has appeared online purportedly showing the justice minister in the new Syrian government, Shadi Al-Waisi, overseeing the execution of two women in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province in 2015.