Nuremberg Germany

An explosion shook a building at the former Nazi Party rally grounds in Nuremberg, Germany, and a man's body was found in a charred vehicle inside, police said. Police were investigating the cause of the blast at the massive stone building, which Adolf Hitler built in 1935 for weeklong Nazi rallies. The building was being used as a warehouse. Police would not release the identity of the victim but said they did not believe the explosion was a terrorist attack.

Whitney R. Harris, one of the original prosecutors of Nazi crimes after World War II, died Wednesday from complications of cancer at his home in Frontenac, Mo. He was 97. Harris was part of the team, led by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, that began the prosecution of war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany, shortly after the war's end. In 1945, Harris led the team's first case, that of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the highest-ranking leader...

A towering brick structure that was to have been the Nazi Party's convention center has stood on the edge of this Bavarian city for more than 60 years, silently evoking the evil that came to life here. It was in Nuremberg that Adolf Hitler stoked the fires of hate with massive rallies and marches meant to intimidate Europe with Germany's military might.

An explosion shook a building at the former Nazi Party rally grounds in Nuremberg, Germany, and a man's body was found in a charred vehicle inside, police said. Police were investigating the cause of the blast at the massive stone building, which Adolf Hitler built in 1935 for weeklong Nazi rallies. The building was being used as a warehouse. Police would not release the identity of the victim but said they did not believe the explosion was a terrorist attack.

Virgin Vacations is cutting the price of two Danube River cruises by $1,000 per person for fall sailings. The October and November itineraries travel from Germany to Hungary while following the European river for a sampling of cities and towns.  The deal: Discounts apply to the 11-day Nov. 14 tour and cruise from Budapest , Hungary to Nuremberg, Germany. Participants spend two nights in Budapest before boarding the Sound of Music for seven nights. The ship has just 64 cabins, and the price includes meals, drinks and shore excursions.

It was one of the most baffling mysteries of the World War II era. How did convicted war criminal Hermann Goering manage to poison himself as U.S. soldiers prepared to hang him? A dozen competing theories have swirled for nearly half a century about how the onetime Nazi second in command was able to commit suicide despite around-the-clock surveillance of his military prison cell.

Whitney R. Harris, one of the original prosecutors of Nazi crimes after World War II, died Wednesday from complications of cancer at his home in Frontenac, Mo. He was 97. Harris was part of the team, led by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, that began the prosecution of war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany, shortly after the war's end. In 1945, Harris led the team's first case, that of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the highest-ranking leader...

German police arrested 141 soccer fans before a first-division game between Nuremberg and Hertha Berlin at Nuremberg, Germany, police said. Hertha won, 4-1.

The Nuremberg laws, Germany 1935. Apartheid, South Africa 1948. Proposition 187, California 1994. Fear turns us against our neighbors and so it begins. JOSEPH ALTICK Ventura

A retired Army reserve colonel believed to be the highest-ranking military officer ever arrested for espionage pleaded innocent to the charge Wednesday. George Trofimoff, 73, said nothing during a brief court appearance. His attorney, Daniel Hernandez, spoke for him. Trofimoff is a former civilian chief of the U.S. Army Element of the Joint Interrogation Center in Nuremberg, Germany. U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Jenkins set a tentative trial date for Aug. 7.

A towering brick structure that was to have been the Nazi Party's convention center has stood on the edge of this Bavarian city for more than 60 years, silently evoking the evil that came to life here. It was in Nuremberg that Adolf Hitler stoked the fires of hate with massive rallies and marches meant to intimidate Europe with Germany's military might.

A former U.S. intelligence agent accused of spying for the Soviet Union during the Cold War was denied bail Tuesday by a federal judge in Florida. George Trofimoff was arrested last week in Tampa on charges of selling secrets to the Soviet KGB while he worked as a civilian at the U.S. Army's Joint Interrogation Center in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1969 to 1994. Trofimoff, 73, retired from his intelligence job in 1995 and moved to Melbourne on Florida's east coast. U.S.

James M. McHaney, 76, a key prosecutor in war crimes trials at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II. McHaney was an assistant to Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, the chief American prosecutor, when 23 German doctors, scientists and medical administrators accused of crimes against humanity went on trial Dec. 9, 1946, before four American judges. McHaney presented much of the evidence to the court, using a 10-by-12-foot chart on which he outlined the accusations against the Germans.