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.
Edzell is a quiet, beautiful village, often described as the “jewel in the crown of Angus”.
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.
A young navy officer is setting sail inspired by the wartime exploits of his grandfathers – who served on opposing sides in the Second World War.
She was the youngster who enjoyed a magical childhood in Austria before being forced to flee from the Nazis to a convent boarding school in Aberdeen.
Alan Turing was a wartime hero whose later life was overshadowed by a conviction for homosexual activity, which was later considered unjust and discriminatory.
The Alan Turing £50 banknote will be issued for the first time on June 23 2021, which coincides with his birthday, the Bank of England has confirmed.
A 99-year-old Second World War veteran with a lifelong passion for singing has gone behind the mic to raise money for charity.
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.
Structural damage has been caused to a number of properties in Exeter following the detonation of a Second World War bomb, police said.
Thousands of Exeter residents have spent a second night away from their homes following the controlled detonation of a Second World War bomb.
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.
There is no mistaking the sense of sacred antiquity about St Machar's Cathedral, standing in the heart of Old Aberdeen.
It was a time when many brave, resourceful people shone a candle in the darkness to fight Nazi oppression and genocide.
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”.
A 98-year-old RAF veteran has been awarded the Legion D’Honneur for his involvement in the liberation of France during the Second World War.
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.
The Torry Point Battery has stood proudly over the entrance to Aberdeen Harbour since 1860.
A gripping eyewitness account of the day a wartime mine exploded in Stonehaven Harbour, “shattering” the old town, has been shared for the first time.
Tributes have been paid to an Aberdeen teacher who fought the Nazis on a French beach during D-Day, and went on to take a job in a Nigerian classroom.
The fourth member of the north-east’s new submarine-hunting fleet is due to arrive at RAF Lossiemouth tomorrow.
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.
It was back-breaking work for pickers who took the chance to earn extra income "tattie howkin'".
Born in the Blitz, Bon Accord Baths survived the Luftwaffe bombing raids to become one of Aberdeen’s most treasured buildings.
Born in the Blitz, Bon Accord Baths survived the Luftwaffe bombing raids to become one of Aberdeen’s most treasured buildings.