A woman wearing a protective face mask lays flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as she marks the Victory Day, the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 9, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich 

A couple walks in front of the war memorial monument "Battle of Sutjeska" in Tjentiste, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 16, 2019. Examples of Yugoslav brutalism include the huge memorials commemorating the struggle against fascism, often placed in dramatic rural settings. Many of those pieces of art remain in disrepair, however, the Tjentiste memorial, commemorating the killing of 7,000 people by the Nazis was renovated last year. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "ARCHITECTURE DJURICA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Fireworks explode over the city during the Victory Day celebrations, marking the 73rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Moscow, Russia May 9, 2018. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 

Tour guide Maciej Meissner stands in front of tunnels, which are part of the Nazi Germany "Riese" construction project, under the Ksiaz castle in an area where a Nazi train is believed to be, in Walbrzych, southwestern Poland September 3, 2015. Poland said on Friday it was almost certain it had located the Nazi train rumored to have gone missing near the close of World War Two loaded with guns and jewels. Photographs taken using ground-penetrating radar equipment showed a train more than 100 metres (330 feet) long, the first official confirmation of its existence, Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel 

A man walks through a tunnel, which is part of the Nazi Germany "Riese" construction project, under the Ksiaz castle in an area where a Nazi train is believed to be, in Walbrzych, southwestern Poland August 30, 2015. Poland said on Friday it was almost certain it had located the Nazi train rumored to have gone missing near the close of World War Two loaded with guns and jewels. Polish authorities started looking for the train this month, tipped off by a German and a Pole who said through lawyers that they had found it in the southwestern district of Walbrzych and expected 10 percent of the value of the findings as a reward. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel 

Stephan Templ poses for a photograph in Prague April 4, 2014. Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis, plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for a hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse.
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Stephan Templ poses for a photograph in Prague April 4, 2014. Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis, plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for a hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse.
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General view of a former hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse April 3, 2014. Stephan Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic of after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for the hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse. Picture taken April 3, 2014. To match AUSTRIA-RESTITUTION/ REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY) 

General view of a former hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse April 3, 2014. Stephan Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic of after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for the hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse. Picture taken April 3, 2014. To match AUSTRIA-RESTITUTION/ REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY) 

General view of a former hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse April 3, 2014. Stephan Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic of after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for the hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse. Picture taken April 3, 2014. To match AUSTRIA-RESTITUTION/ REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY) 

General view of a former hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse April 3, 2014. Stephan Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic of after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for the hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse. Picture taken April 3, 2014. To match AUSTRIA-RESTITUTION/ REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Stephan Templ poses for a photograph in Prague April 4, 2014. Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis, plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for a hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse.
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Stephan Templ poses for a photograph in Prague April 4, 2014. Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis, plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for a hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse.
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Stephan Templ poses for a photograph in Prague April 4, 2014. Templ, a Jewish critic of Austria's post-war record in returning property plundered by the Nazis, plans to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights after receiving a jail sentence last year when his own restitution claim went sour. Templ, 53, an architectural historian living in Prague, was sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding the Alpine republic after failing to name his aunt in a restitution claim for a hospital building near Vienna's famous Ringstrasse.
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Russian military aircraft fly over Red Square passing St Basil's Cathedral during a military parade in Moscow May 9, 2010. Russia celebrates the victory over Nazi troops in 1945 on Sunday. REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY ANNIVERSARY IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the opening of an exhibition called "Architecture of Murder" at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem January 25, 2010. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial put on display on Monday original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camps, where about one million Jews perished during World War Two. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT) 

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the opening of an exhibition called "Architecture of Murder" at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem January 25, 2010. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial put on display Monday original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camps, where about one million Jews perished during World War Two. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT) 

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the opening of an exhibition called "Architecture of Murder" at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem January 25, 2010. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial put on display Monday original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camps, where about one million Jews perished during World War Two. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT SOCIETY) 

Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, speaks to the media during a preview of an exhibition called "Architecture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints" in Jerusalem January 24, 2010. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial will unveil this week the exhibition containing original blueprints of the Nazi death camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about one million Jews perished during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT SOCIETY) 

A member of the media views an exhibition called "Architecture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints" before its official opening at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem January 24, 2010. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial will unveil this week the exhibition containing original blueprints of the Nazi death camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about one million Jews perished during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT SOCIETY) 

A member of the media walks through an exhibition entitled "Architecture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints" before its official opening at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem January 24, 2010. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial will unveil this week an exhibition containing original blueprints of the Nazi death camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about one million Jews perished during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT SOCIETY) 

Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem, points to a blueprint of a crematorium that is part of an exhibition called "Architecture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints" in Jerusalem January 24, 2010. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial will unveil this week the exhibition containing original blueprints of the Nazi death camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about one million Jews perished during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT SOCIETY) 

A member of the media views an exhibition entitled "Architecture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints" before its official opening at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem January 24, 2010. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial will unveil this week an exhibition containing original blueprints of the Nazi death camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about one million Jews perished during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) 

Military brass salute the Greek flag in front of the Parthenon temple during the ceremony for the annual anniversary of the liberation of Athens from Nazi occupation at the Acropolis hill in Athens October 12, 2009. Athens was liberated on October 12, 1944. REUTERS/John Kolesidis (GREECE ANNIVERSARY POLITICS SOCIETY) 

People visit an exhibition featuring original architectural plans of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Berlin February 16, 2009. The architectural plans of the Nazi death camp was found last year in a Berlin flat. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) 

People visit an exhibition featuring original architectural plans of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Berlin February 16, 2009. The architectural plans of the Nazi death camp was found last year in a Berlin flat. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) 

People visit an exhibition featuring original architectural plans of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Berlin February 16, 2009. The architectural plans of the Nazi death camp was found last year in a Berlin flat. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) 

People visit an exhibition featuring original architectural plans of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Berlin February 16, 2009. The architectural plans of the Nazi death camp was found last year in a Berlin flat. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) 

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former Polish Foreign Minister and survivor of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp walks by a giant picture of the camp in Berlin February 16, 2009. The original architectural plans of the Nazi death camp was found last year in a Berlin flat. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) 

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former Polish Foreign Minister and survivor of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp walks by a giant picture of the camp in Berlin February 16, 2009. The original architectural plans of the Nazi death camp was found last year in a Berlin flat. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) 

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former Polish Foreign Minister and survivor of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp pose for photographers in front of a giant picture of the camp in Berlin February 16, 2009. The original architectural plans of the Nazi death camp was found last year in a Berlin flat. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) 

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former Polish Foreign Minister and survivor of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp pose for photographers in front of a giant picture of the camp in Berlin February 16, 2009. The original architectural plans of the Nazi death camp was found last year in a Berlin flat. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY) 

Architect's drawings of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz are pictured in an office of Germany's Bild newspaper in Berlin November 9, 2008. The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany's Bild newspaper reported on Saturday. REUTERS/Bild Zeitung (GERMANY) 

The organ first played at the Nuremberg Nazi party rally of 1935 before it was installed, is pictured in a Protestant church built in the mid-1930s to glorify Hitler's Third Reich in southern Berlin, May 22, 2008. From the entrance hall chandelier shaped like an iron cross military medal to the wooden carving of a Wehrmacht soldier on the pulpit standing on the right hand side of Jesus, the atmosphere is heavy with reminders of Hitler's rule. The run down place of worship, a unique example of the Protestant Church's adoption of Nazi propaganda, with furnishings rich in symbolism favoured by the dictatorship, is hoping for a new lease of life as a memorial against Nazi oppression. TO ACCOMPANY STORY GERMANY-NAZI/CHURCH
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in front of St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow May 9, 2008. Warplanes screamed over Red Square and missile launchers rumbled past ranks of soldiers on Friday when Russia celebrated victory over Nazi Germany with a show of military might not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor (RUSSIA) 

A model of the 'Great Hall' is pictured at the exhibition 'Myth Germania' in Berlin March 11, 2008. The exhibition shows pictures, plans and architectural models of the 'Great Hall' and the 'North-South Axis' designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer during the Nazi regime. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY) 

The dome of the 'Great Hall' is pictured at the exhibition 'Myth Germania' in Berlin March 11, 2008. The exhibition shows pictures, plans and architectural models of the 'Great Hall' and the 'North-South Axis' designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer during the Nazi regime. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY) 

The dome of the 'Great Hall' is pictured at the exhibition 'Myth Germania' in Berlin March 11, 2008. The exhibition shows pictures, plans and architectural models of the 'Great Hall' and the 'North-South Axis' designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer during the Nazi regime. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY) 

The dome of the 'Great Hall' is pictured at the exhibition 'Myth Germania' in Berlin March 11, 2008. The exhibition shows pictures, plans and architectural models of the 'Great Hall' and the 'North-South Axis' designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer during the Nazi regime. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY) 

Members of the Muslim community attend the weekly Friday prayers at the Mahmud Mosque in Zurich May 25, 2007. Switzerland's reputation as a haven of tolerance for immigrants has been undermined in recent weeks by calls for a ban on new minarets, a mysterious synagogue blaze and neo-Nazi threats to disrupt national day celebrations. To match feature SWISS-IMMIGRANTS/ REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (SWITZERLAND) 

Members of the Muslim community attend the weekly Friday prayers at the Mahmud Mosque in Zurich May 25, 2007. Switzerland's reputation as a haven of tolerance for immigrants has been undermined in recent weeks by calls for a ban on new minarets, a mysterious synagogue blaze and neo-Nazi threats to disrupt national day celebrations. The banner in the background reads: "Love for everybody, hatred for nobody". To match feature SWISS-IMMIGRANTS/ REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (SWITZERLAND) 

War veterans leave a spectator stand after a World War Two victory parade at the Red Square in Moscow May 9, 2007. Russia celebrated on Wednesday the 62nd anniversary of the World War Two victory over Nazi Germany. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA) 

A monument to Red Army soldiers stands next to a Greek Catholic church in Warsaw May 7, 2007. Poland has shelved legislation that would allow removal of monuments to Soviet soldiers on its soil, fearing it would cause Russian wrath just as Moscow celebrates victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. REUTERS/Katarina Stoltz (POLAND) 

The font is guarded by a wooden statue of a stormtrooper from Adolf Hitler's paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA) unit inside the protestant Martin Luther Memorial Church in Berlin March 21, 2006. The church built in Germany's last Nazi era is now under construction and the building's interior is full of Third Reich symbols. 

A general view shows the villa called "The House of the Wannsee Conference" in Berlin's lakeside Wannsee district in this picture taken January 19, 2006. [On January 20, 1942, a group of 15 high-ranking Nazis chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, met in the dining room of the villa where they ate breakfast, drank Cognac and discussed the bureaucratic details of killing Europe's Jews. The villa where the meeting took place is now a museum.] On Friday it reopens with a new permanent exhibition that offers a broad view of the "Wannsee Conference" and how the Holocaust was carried out. Picture taken January 19, 2006. 

A general view shows the villa called "The House of the Wannsee Conference" in Berlin's lakeside Wannsee district in this picture taken January 19, 2006. [On January 20, 1942, a group of 15 high-ranking Nazis chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, met in the dining room of the villa where they ate breakfast, drank Cognac and discussed the bureaucratic details of killing Europe's Jews. The villa where the meeting took place is now a museum.] On Friday it reopens with a new permanent exhibition that offers a broad view of the "Wannsee Conference" and how the Holocaust was carried out. Picture taken January 19, 2006. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a military parade in front of St.Basil's Cathedral in Red Square in Moscow, May 9, 2005. Speaking in Red Square on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated war veterans and the entire nation on the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a military parade in front of St.Basil's Cathedral in Red Square in Moscow, May 9, 2005. Speaking in Red Square on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated war veterans and the entire nation on the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. 

A military orchestra performs on a boat on Moscow river passing in front of the Kremlin in Moscow, May 8, 2005. [Russia will mark the 60th anniversary of the former Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on May 9.] 

A panoramic view shows the eastern German city of Dresden and the river Elbe February 12, 2005. [Thousands of far-right marchers are threatening to upstage the official commemoration of Dresden's wartime destruction by portraying Germany as a World War Two victim while ignoring Nazi atrocities. Mainstream parties fear the National Democratic Party (NPD) and up to 7,000 supporters will take to the streets on Sunday, the 60th anniversary of the city's bombing during World War Two.] 

A general view show workers preparing foundation for pillars at the construction site of the German Holocaust memorial in Berlin November 19, 2003. [The trustees overseeing the construction of the Holocaust memorial decided building will go ahead despite the fact that the German chemical company Degussa with a Nazi past has materials in the foundations.] 

A workers prepares foundation for pillars at the construction site of the German Holocaust memorial in Berlin November 19, 2003. The trustees overseeing the construction of the Holocaust memorial decided building will go ahead despite the fact that the [German chemical company Degussa with a Nazi past has materials in the foundations.] 

Workers prepare foundation for pillars at the construction site of the German Holocaust memorial in Berlin November 19, 2003. The trustees overseeing the construction of the Holocaust memorial decided building will go ahead despite the fact that the [German chemical company Degussa with a Nazi past has materials in the foundations.] 

A construction worker walks in front of pillars for Berlin's long-awaited Holocaust memorial near the Reichstag, the seat of Germany's lower house of parliament and the landmark Brandenburg Gate November 13, 2003. [The trustees overseeing the construction of the Holocaust memorial are expected to decide whether building will go ahead despite the fact a firm with a Nazi past has materials in the foundations.] 

A worker walks through a pile of concrete blocks for Berlin's Holocaust memorial in an interim storage tent in Gross Ziethen some 80 km (50 miles) north of the German capital Berlin November 13, 2003. [The trustees overseeing the construction of the Holocaust memorial are expected to decide on Thursday whether the building of the 2700 blocks, or steles, will go ahead despite the fact a firm with a Nazi past has materials in the foundations and the blocks.] 

U.S. architect Peter Eisenmann (R) kisses Lea Rosh, head of the Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in front of concrete pillars at the construction site for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin August 16, 2003. On Saturday Germany erected the first of a planned 2,700 concrete pillars for a long-delayed memorial to the six million Jews killed by the Nazis after years of agonising over how to express its remorse for the Holocaust. 

U.S. architect Peter Eisenmann poses for photographers between two concrete pillars at the construction site for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin August 16, 2003. On Saturday Germany erected the first of a planned 2,700 concrete pillars for a long-delayed memorial to the six million Jews killed by the Nazis after years of agonising over how to express its remorse for the Holocaust. 

Picture shows a detail of Russia's legendary amber room which is back in place in the Catherine Palace outside St Petersburg after 20 years of painstaking reconstruction by Russian craftsmen May 13, 2003. The original was stolen by retreating Nazi troops at the end of World War Two. 

Victory Day fireworks sparkle in the skies above Moscow State University, May 9, 2002. [Russia on Thursday marks the 57th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in the World War Two.] 

The administration house of the air-raid shelter of Adolf Hitler's Eagles Nest is seen in Obersalzberg near the southern Bavarian town of Berchdesgaden July 6, 2001. Works start on Friday to turn what was once the high temple of the Nazi Party at play into a four-star resort for well-heeled tourists.