After the start of World War One the “Commission for Relief of Belgium” (CRB) was established with Herbert Hoover, a wealthy industrialist living in London at the time, as Chairman. Herbert Hoover, ...

Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at ...

In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported ...

The violin by the famed Italian luthier was plundered at the end of World War II and presumed lost or destroyed. Now experts ...

But in the immediate post-war period, the decision makers at Wimbledon opted to bend their rules in the most peculiar of ...

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From World War II's enigma machine, to a Stasi camera concealed in a flower box and even original letters from the James Bond ...

Germany emerges from WWII beaten and broken, not only by the Allies but also by the brutal Nazi regime. The people undertake the task of rebuilding a shattered nation and its spirit, with architecture ...

More than 600 people from Jersey ended up in an internment camp near the town of Bad Wurzach, in southern Germany, and some ...