Yesterday morning, the British Prime Minister travelled to Paris at the invitation of the French President to lay a wreath at ...

They had to accept blame for starting the war. Some places Germany used to own, like Alsace-Lorraine, were taken from them. They weren't allowed to have an army of more than 100,000 men.

In 1919, King George V of England proclaimed that Armistice Day be marked with two minutes of silence at 11 am, the hour the ...

The body of a man who was missing for 15 years has been found in the attic of a house purchased by new buyers. The discovery ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve in 1944, German forces launched a major offensive in the mountains of Alsace-Lorraine, France, surging over Allied defenses along the border of France and ...

St Nicolas Day – December 6th – is a huge deal in Germany, and because of historic links ... has a Christmas market that’s ...

Instead, they started calling their trusty soldier dogs “Alsatians”, which come from the area Alsace-Lorraine at the ...

On October 7, 1870, one of those minor, anecdotal episodes that pepper History amidst greater events took place. A hydrogen ...