Germany has launched a £8.5 million drive to send more schoolchildren to visit former Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz in a frantic endeavour to stop memories of the Holocaust fading. The initial annual budget has now been doubled to £3 million after emergency backing was secured from a private foundation. The Bethe Foundation has also pledged an additional £8.5 millionContinue reading “The Fading Horrors Of Nazi Camps”
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Cerberus’s Inferno
Regions of Europe could be struck by their hottest-ever temperatures next week after meteorologists issued a dire warning that the blistering heat could reach 48C, threatening people, livestock and crops. The continent is already in the grip of a sweltering heatwave ‘Cerberus’, named after the three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades (hell) inContinue reading “Cerberus’s Inferno”
It Is Imperative That The Government Releases Secret Files On The Royal Family
A few weeks ago, someone wrote in a newspaper outlet in the Royal section about the problems they’d had as a historian and biographer in trying to access historical royal records. Time after time they found themselves barred from peeking into even the most mundane files, including documents which had been brought with public moneyContinue reading “It Is Imperative That The Government Releases Secret Files On The Royal Family”