Looking out of my bedroom window in Schloss Colditz, I find it hard to fathom how anyone ever managed to get out of here.

But he tragically died in the sinking of the converted liner on 2 July 1940. At the time it was being used to transport ...

Britain’s youngest Second World War prisoner of war watched a Yugoslav boy being shot while they shared soup in a German camp, newly released National Archives records show. John Hipkin was 14 when he ...

US Army forces under the command of Gen. George Patton liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, on this day in history, April 11, 1945.

We reveal The Military Museums’ most popular exhibits, along with the significance of the Air Force’s 100th Anniversary.

It is not individuals who are behind child trafficking, but a criminal syndicate After the end of the Nuremberg Tribunal, ...

The Ontario County District Attorney’s Office has announced the sentencing of a man to 20 years in prison for rape. According ...

From Europe and the USA, through the First World War, to Africa, Australia and beyond, discover the world as it looked in the ...

On April 27, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines. In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote one of his most famous piano compositions, the Bagatelle in ...

In 1822, the 18th president of the U.S., Ulysses S. Grant, was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. In 1865, the steamer Sultana, carrying freed Union prisoners of war, exploded on the Mississippi River near ...

This past weekend western slope skiers took to the slopes to work against gravity not to sink. As another great ski season ...

Police will soon dress up as highway maintenance workers to identify and ticket drivers who violate traffic laws in work ...