Putin critic Alexei Navalny likens prison to ‘concentration camp’

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has revealed he has a ‘freshly shaven head’ in a message from a prison colony in Russia which he likened to a ‘concentration camp’.  Surfacing for the first time since he was moved to the penal colony 60 miles from Moscow, Navalny described hellish conditions at the camp where he claims … Read more

Putin critic Alexei Navalny has been moved to a ‘concentration camp’, lawyer claims

Jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny reveals his ‘freshly shaven head’ as he likens his Russian penal colony to a ‘concentration camp’ and says inmates are even banned from swearing Navalny says he is woken every hour at night by guards at Russian prison camp He was taken to the penal colony after conviction for flouting … Read more

Former Nazi concentration camp guard, 95, is deported from Tennessee to Germany

Friedrich Karl Berger served as a guard of a Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp in 1945. He is pictured in 1959 A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been deported from the United States and arrived Saturday in his native Germany where he is being held by police for questioning, authorities said. The U.S. Immigration … Read more

Visitors at Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp are condemned for tobogganing over mass graves

Visitors at Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp are condemned for tobogganing over mass graves where 76,000 people died during WWII The German WWII memorial urged visitors to avoid spending leisure pastimes People were spotted enjoying sledging at the mass graves while touring the site Buchenwald and its sub camp were used to house thousands of slave … Read more

Treasure hunters are warned to stay away from Buchenwald concentration camp

Treasure hunters are warned to stay away from Buchenwald after documentary claimed handwritten map points the way to hidden Nazi gold WARNING: Contains distressing photographs  Treasure hunters have been warned against searching concentration camps  A documentary claimed secret tunnels at Buckenwald could contain Nazi gold  Buckenwald and its sub camps was used to house thousands … Read more

Tennessee man, 94, who served as SS guard in a Nazi concentration camp to be deported

A Tennessee man who served as an armed guard in a Nazi concentration camp at Neuengamme will be deported to Germany after his appeal was dismissed. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) revealed it dismissed the appeal from Friedrich Karl Berger on Thursday, just one day before the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg trials … Read more

One of Northern Ireland’s last WW2 veterans who helped liberate concentration camp dies aged 100

One of Northern Ireland’s last Second World War veterans, who helped liberate a concentration camp, has died aged 100.   Edward ‘Teddy’ Dixon was born in New York but his family moved to Belfast when he was a young child. He served in the US army as an infantryman in the 42nd Infantry ‘Rainbow’ Division, receiving his … Read more

Nazi concentration camp guard, 93, is spared jail

A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been spared jail after being found guilty of accessory to 5,230 murders. Bruno Dey was handed a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday by a court in Hamburg. In what could be one of the last such cases involving surviving Nazi guards, Dey was convicted for his role … Read more

EDWARD LUCAS on harrowing evidence of Beijing’s concentration camps aimed at ‘re-educating’ Muslims 

Dawn breaks in the crowded prison cell. Not everyone is asleep — conditions are so cramped in the 70-square-yard space that 15 of the 60 inmates have to stand to give others their turn to lie down. The lack of privacy is absolute. Toilet breaks are rationed — two minutes at a time — and … Read more

ED LUCAS on the harrowing evidence of Beijing’s concentration camps aimed at ‘re-educating’ Muslims 

Dawn breaks in the crowded prison cell. Not everyone is asleep — conditions are so cramped in the 70-square-yard space that 15 of the 60 inmates have to stand to give others their turn to lie down. The lack of privacy is absolute. Toilet breaks are rationed — two minutes at a time — and … Read more