Ferdinand ‘the bloody’

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

LECHFELD, BAVARIA 10-12 AUGUST 955

WITH MORE MULTIPLE MURDERERS PER CAPITA THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET, THE US HAS EARNED A BLOODY REPUTATION AS GROUND ZERO FOR SERIAL KILLERS

For a conductor who eventually achieved global recognition and left a dazzlingly varied discography, Sir Roger Norrington was something of a slow starter. Born in Oxford in 1934, his early musical act

A portrait of a Bavarian town gripped by National Socialism