All Stories: Hitler

MANILA: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would "be happy" to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country.

A brother of Hitler's who was thought to be older was actually younger and died within days, raising questions about how his death might have affected the future leader of Nazi Germany, a historian said in comments published on Monday.

VIENNA: Austria's government submitted a law to seize the house where Hitler was born, in a bid to stop the building becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

NEW YORK: A statue of Hitler on his knees was auctioned Sunday for $17.2 million, a record for a work by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

BERLIN: A new biography of Hitler by a prominent German historian is likely to stir controversy with its argument that the Nazi leader's political acumen has been underestimated and that the belief in his hypnotic grip over Germans is inflated.

JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seized on Israel's annual remembrance of the Holocaust Wednesday to compare arch-foe Iran to Hitler's Germany.

Seven decades ago, on this very day that is the 27th of January 1945, the notorious Nazi death camp for Jewish prisoners, Auschwitz, was liberated as the Russian troops annexed Poland and marched into the city.

BUDAPEST: A Budapest court has ordered a US-based internet service provider (ISP) to remove an article after ruling it denied the events of the Holocaust, a crime in Hungary, the news agency MTI reported Wednesday.

FRANKFURT: A watercolour painted by a young Adolf Hitler a century ago went under the hammer for 130,000 euros ($161,000) Saturday at an auction in the southern German city of Nuremberg.

ISLAMABAD: Dr Tahir ul Qadri has said that the current rulers are worse than Hitler and Mussolini, the constitution is ruined and there is no democracy, while the ones having fake mandate are crying to safeguard democracy in state, ARY News reported.

ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Saturday of having "surpassed Hitler in barbarism" through its attacks on Gaza, but warned Turks against taking out their anger on the country's Jewish community.