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, ...

European officials tracking the ramp up of Vladimir Putin’s military are wrestling with a threat that would have been ...

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Thousands of people were being evacuated from central Cologne in western Germany on Wednesday after three American bombs from World War II, each with impact fuses, were discovered during ...

Cologne was the first German city to experience a '1,000 bomber raid' by the Royal Air Force during World War Two. Some 1,400 tons of bombs were dropped in a single night on 30 May, 1942.

The city, in western Germany, is undergoing its biggest ever post-war evacuation after discovery of two 1,000kg and one 500kg American bombs.

“No one wants their children in the army.” Germany has long sought to extinguish the militarism that fueled its calamitous history during World War II.

Germany, one of the most historically and geographically diverse countries in Europe, is best understood through its maps.

The Black Tom bombing, along with Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram, eventually led to ...

How did a movement with no founder, no manifesto sweep the globe? See why Art Deco’s exuberance resonated, and how it still ...

Facing determined German troops, soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled this height at a high cost in men in 1944 during World War II. At first it might sound like Point du Hoc on ...

Around 20,000 people are being urgently evacuated from their homes in Cologne, Germany, after three unexploded Second World War bombs were discovered. After the city undergoes its largest postwar ...