A brave woman who refused to accept that she had to speak Italian when Austria lost South Tyrol to the fascists after the First World War has said she wants to get her Austrian citizenship back before she dies. The area where she lives was taken from Austria and handed…
A Jewish survivor of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has testified in court against a former secretary who is on trial for complicity in over 11,000 cases of murder and attempted murder. The Itzehoe District Court in the town of the same name in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein heard…
A fossilised cake baked the day before Palm Sunday celebrations in 1942 has been unearthed nearly 80-years-later in the kitchen of a German home that was flattened by an Allied bombing raid during World War II. The 79-year-old nut cake with a brittle coating was found in the German city…
A WW2 US areal bomb has been discovered during excavations at a construction site near a former Nazi tank factory that was regularly bombed by the Allies. The areal bomb, estimated to weigh 500 kilogrammes (1,102 lbs) was unearthed in the town of St. Valentin in the district of Amstetten…