It would be easy to cast all blame for the holocaust on one man, Adolf Hitler; the leader of Nazi Germany and the man whose face has now come to personify true evil. However, no one man could truly ...

During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, the fez, or tarboosh, was more commonly worn by the urban educated elite, the effendi ...

But concerns are mounting that the move could reignite old tensions and stigmatise individuals linked to the dark history of ...

While humanizing the perpetrators of the Holocaust has long been considered taboo, the 20 portraits in Richard Evans's new ...

One day in March 1932, in his imposing Renaissance castle in Silesia, Wilhelm Hohen­zollern, the 49-year-old German former ...

One aspect of the Nazi rise to power is not well understood, remaining a point of contention among historians - the group's ...

A HOLOCAUST survivor has told how Russian soldiers liberating her Nazi camp picked off Jewish women one by one and raped them ...

In July 1942 Heinrich Himmler again visited Auschwitz. There were approximately 30,000 inmates there at the time, most of them Jews and Polish political prisoners. He inspected the main camp ...

Actor Eddie Marsan said he wants to share his honour for services to drama with “my wife, my family and the people I grew up ...

When she asked what grandpa Ernst did in the Third Reich, Katrin Himmler’s father used to tell her that he was basically an apolitical man who was prodded into joining the Nazi Party by his elder ...