Germany’s president marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday by reminding his compatriots of the inconceivable atrocities the Nazis committed there during the Third Reich.
A giant birthday message to a 100-year-old Second World War veteran who recorded a wartime song to raise thousands of pounds for charity has been broadcast from a billboard in central London.
It’s Aberdeen’s gateway to the world… but the city’s bustling international airport has grown beyond recognition from its humble origins almost 90 years ago.
Alan Turing was a wartime hero whose later life was overshadowed by a conviction for homosexual activity, which was later considered unjust and discriminatory.
A Second World War veteran has been reunited with his daughter for the first time in almost a year after restrictions on visitors to his care home were eased.
A series of secret meetings during the Second World War led to the creation of the UK-US intelligence-sharing alliance that still exists today, previously unseen diary details reveal.
First World War fighter pilot and BAME pioneer Hardit Singh Malik is to be remembered in a new memorial dedicated to the thousands of Sikhs who lost their lives in the two world wars.
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer used a speech on Thursday to outline what he called a "new chapter for Britain", but the London MP didn't mention Scotland once in his speech, leaving his political opponents north of the border crying foul as they brand his vision of the future "reheated Blairism."
It was like a scene from Disney’s classic Lady And The Tramp, played out on the streets of Aberdeen during the dark days of the Great Depression of the 1930s.
They are maps divided by 40 years, but they illustrate how the German and Russian military machines created detailed plans of Aberdeen and other prominent locations in the north-east of Scotland.
Boris Johnson has described the testimonies of a concentration camp survivor and a British soldier who helped liberate Bergen-Belsen as “perhaps the most powerful things I have ever heard”.
In Frozen, it took the magic of Elsa to create an icy, winter wonderland. In the Granite City it took the power of a group of local businessmen to create the wonderful Aberdeen Glaciarium.
Halloween, the night when some say the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest, is the time for ghost stories – and author Graeme Milne has plenty to tell.