Charles Edward died of cancer in his flat in Coburg in 1954 at the age of 69. He was described as a "penniless criminal" in one report and is buried at the Waldfriedhof Cemetery near one of his former ...

The crusades to the Holy Land were a consuming obsession of Latin Christianity for four centuries and remain among the most famous episodes of the Middle Ages. Yet, in the perspective of history, they ...

Germany didn’t become a country naturally—it was built through conflict, after centuries of fragmented states trapped inside the Holy Roman Empire. When Napoleon dismantled the old system, German ...

However, prior to the rise of the United States as a great power, saviour of Europe and later as a superpower, the European ...

Observing the tussle for Greenland, it is hard not to recall Karl Marx’s aphorism that history repeats itself “the first time ...

As an initiative redistributes a bumper surplus of spuds, here's a look at the Germans' great love affair with the potato.

In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had ...

Mockery came in thick and fast. “Given UKIP was founded on 3 September 1993 by Professor Alan Sked, it can hardly call itself ...

The steam engine still drives the economy in Germany. In areas where there were particularly large numbers of steam engines ...

Ukip sparked backlash after unveiling a new logo critics say echoes Nazi imagery, a claim the far-right party denies as it ...

In his celebrated mea culpa, the German pastor Martin Niemöller blamed his failure to speak out against the Nazis on ...

Sunder Katwala, the director of the British Future think tank, wrote on BlueSky: “Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan ...