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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, ...
There are plenty of films about World War 2, but only a few stand out. Some fail to capture the reality of the conflict, ...
More than 600 people from Jersey ended up in an internment camp near the town of Bad Wurzach, in southern Germany, and some ...
As Germany devolved into chaos at the end of World War II, a rare violin from the famed shop of Italian luthier Antonio ...
But in the immediate post-war period, the decision makers at Wimbledon opted to bend their rules in the most peculiar of ...
A European football tie cancelled due to Cold War-era tensions was finally completed in Northern Ireland on Saturday, 65 ...
In early 1945, as the Third Reich crumbled and Soviet forces pushed relentlessly westward, Germany launched one of its last ...
A: China's role in the global fight against fascism has often been undervalued, partly because it was not an industrial power ...
HafenCity’s centerpiece is the striking Elbphilharmonie — a combination concert hall, hotel, and apartment complex that ...
From World War II's enigma machine, to a Stasi camera concealed in a flower box and even original letters from the James Bond ...
World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...
Fanta, the iconic soda enjoyed by millions today, has an unlikely origin story that traces back to Nazi Germany during World ...