A former SS sergeant who worked unnoticed for decades as a train-station manager was charged with 58 counts of murder Tuesday after a student doing undergraduate research uncovered his alleged involvement in a massacre of Jewish forced laborers. University of Vienna student Andreas Forster was working ...

German prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 90-year-old alleged former member of Hitler's SS with 58 counts of murder over a massacre of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II. The man, who has not been named, is accused of shooting at least 57 labourers in woods near the small town of Deutsch Schuetzen in present-day ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Saturday he still had difficulty understanding why God had chosen him to lead the Catholic Church worldwide, recalling his isolated upbringing in a rural community of southern Germany. The 82-year-old pontiff, whose past in wartime Germany once again came under scrutiny during a visit to Israel this month, said that as a boy ...