And contrary to the direct orders of the Nazi leadership, individual members of the SS took great personal advantage. Libuša Breder - Auschwitz Prisoner: "They were taking home lots of gold and ...

She had come a long way from her home in Virginia to testify in the trial of Reinhold Hanning, a former Nazi SS guard. The trial was off to a late start because Hanning, 94, was waiting for a ...

This week on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper reported on a photo album received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that turned out to be the personal scrapbook of a high-ranking SS officer ...

A vivid description of the manner in which one SS officer, with pistol in hand ... court here today as the trial continued against 22 Auschwitz-Birkenau officers, accused of murdering many ...

His office is on the first floor of a former SS administration building directly across from a former gas chamber and crematorium. He tells me that Auschwitz is about to slip into history.

The newly appointed Auschwitz construction chief, Karl Bischoff, and SS architect Fritz Ertl were working on plans for a completely new camp to be situated a little more than a mile and a half ...

With Auschwitz initially built for an altogether different purpose than the gassing of the Jews. And the Nazis evolving their wider policy of killing in ways that defy the popular myth of the SS ...