Berlin: German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former member of Hitler's elite Waffen SS for taking part in a World War II massacre of hundreds of French villagers, nearly 70 years after ...

Former SS solider involved in French Ascq massacre dies of natural causes A former SS soldier who faced charges for incitement and disparaging the memory of Nazi victims has died aged 96, German ...

The Waffen SS was formed in 1933 as an off-shoot of the general SS, Hitler's paramilitary organisation that was created in 1925. It was overseen by Heinrich Himmler, who set strict requirements ...