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The cards form part of a recently discovered diary which the Mirror revealed last month. In 1941 Hitler wrote to Telschow: “I kindly ask you to accept this package of coffee as a small gift. It comes ...

On 12 January 1976, author Agatha Christie died peacefully, aged 85. She created the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss ...

There’s a scene at the start of Robert Harris’s novel Munich, about the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which the dire state of Britain’s pre-war defences are described. One by one, the chiefs of staff tell ...

Two fragments of the 11th-Century fabric were stolen from Bayeux during the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.

A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter ...

Government social-media managers have transformed official feeds.

M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...

A sign for 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer earlier in the day, is displayed ...

Historians, educators and Jewish groups have been considering how to teach about the Holocaust after the survivors have ...

The true turning point of adoration came by chance while they were on stage in Denver. A fly flew into Maria’s mouth, forcing her to stop singing. Instead of ignoring it, she told the audience, “I ...