An ordinary torchlit procession set for Thursday to commemorate World War II heroes has sparked an unexpected controversy, with calls from activists to stop the event because it reminded them of torchlit marches by the Hitler Youth. An ordinary torchlit procession set for Thursday to commemorate World War II heroes has sparked an unexpected controversy, with calls from activists to stop the event because it reminded them of torchlit marches by the Hitler Youth. The procession has been held in early...

... there were writings on the back," Sadler, 56, said by telephone from the United States. Since that time he has been investigating the mystery behind each of those 200 photos. He believes the pictures were taken by a well-placed German, possibly a Nazi soldier and definitely a spy on Soviet soil. The photo album was discovered by his father in the liberated concentration camp in Dachau, which his military unit helped guard. Together with the album, he brought home three hardcover books published...

Even after decades of in-depth Holocaust research, excruciating details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe where the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews. NEW YORK — Even after decades of in-depth Holocaust research, excruciating details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe where...

A respected Russian political journalist who exposed the rise of modern Russian Nazi movements has drowned while vacationing in Indonesia with his family. A respected Russian political journalist who exposed the rise of modern Russian Nazi movements has drowned while vacationing in Indonesia with his family. Mark Deutsch, 67, known...

... there is not enough national pride left over to provide thousands of Great Patriotic War veterans housing, despite the public promises to do so. Brave men and women to whom Russia owes its very existence after they defended the Soviet Union against the Nazis still live in dilapidated shacks without central heating, running water or indoor toilets. Instead, Russia's leaders take great pride over the country's huge nuclear arsenal that is capable of destroying the United States. At least, that was the...

... more interested in advancing their careers and image than defending the country. Today, the equivalent of Tolstoy's false patriots are Russian politicians and their loyal servants in the media who vulgarize and cheapen the country's victories against Nazi and French invaders to score political points. Eighteenth-century English author Samuel Johnson once said false patriotism is the last refuge for scoundrels. You could say the same for "false anti-Americanism." Recall when President Vladimir...

... main sponsor. When U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated President Vladimir Putin by telephone on the May 9 Victory Day holiday — an appropriate gesture considering that the United States and the Soviet Union fought together against Nazi Germany — Putin returned the courtesy in a strange way: He announced that he would not attend the Group of Eight meeting that Obama will host at Camp David this weekend. To make matters worse, Putin offered a flimsy excuse that few believe...

... Stalin and his generals using millions of Soviet soldiers as cannon fodder in World War II is a lie, Medinsky says. Citing Russian government statistics, he claims Soviet soldier deaths, at roughly 11.4 million, were only 30 percent higher than those of Nazi Germany and its allies, at some 8.7 million. Those who disagree with him on these points, Medinsky says, often have their own Russia-­hating agenda: to smear Russia's reputation and falsely present it as a backward, tyrannical and savage country...