As she entered the camp, Josef Mengelea, a German Schutzstaffel officer and physician at Auschwitz, directed people one way or another, to work or to be gassed.

Peiper and other German soldiers were later convicted of war crimes. A spokesman for the 18th Airborne Corps issued a statement Tuesday saying officials regret using the photo of Peiper. The post ...

Precious works of art. The fabled Amber Room of Russia’s Catherine Palace. Crates of gold. The hunt for lost Nazi treasure is back on in earnest.

The Corps' since-deleted post to kick off the commemoration had a photo of German Schutzstaffel Col. Joachim Peiper.

At the age of 9, she stood helplessly by while German Schutzstaffel (SS) soldiers interrogated her father, Johann Uhl. The SS had information that the Uhls were hiding a Jewish family.