Shock waves went throughout the whole nation when the SS Gothenburg sank off the coast of Queensland in February 1875. Its preservation is key in understanding life in the colonies.

Lior Geller's film chronicles prisoners who escape the first Nazi death camp to provide the first eyewitness account of the ...

It was 3 March 1945 when American soldiers liberated a concentration camp in Hinzert, Germany, about 80 kilometres from the ...

The notorious death camp, in which hundreds of thousands perished, is only now getting a proper museum space to ensure the ...

People attend a rally addressed to the US government, asking for help in freeing Ukrainian prisoners of war held captive in ...

On 5 May 1945, a few days after Hitler’s suicide, American soldiers under command of US Army Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr.

While mention of the word torture was banned from official language at the time, the French military in Algeria encouraged ...

Among the items discovered were personal belongings of the dead, including an officer's sword, combs, life jackets, women's ...

In the past decades we have been able to observe judicial reactions to democratic backsliding both in Hungary and Poland. While judges in Hungary have seemed to adopt the typical restrained approaches ...

At just 10 years old — the same year he met the Beatles — Lincoln ventured onto the exterior deck of a ship his family was ...

Other criminals who have been sentenced to whole-life orders in recent years include child serial killer Lucy Letby, Sarah ...