Funeral in umbria

This baker’s son achieved what every other hotblooded Stuttgart youngster could only dream of doing during West Germany’s post-war Economic Miracle: to race for Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. Herrmann was

A round 3.30pm on 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker. Minutes later, his still warm body was carried outside by loyal staffers and burned in the Reich Chancellery gardens. H

Our historians discuss the movies that have informed and inspired them

How do you research your family history when you’re adopted? Do you follow the lines of your biological parents, assuming you know who they are, or do you investigate your adopted parents’ families? K

Is this the age of dictators?” asked veteran journalist Sir Sidney Low. He was writing in September 1923, the month in which a military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power in Spain. At the sa

Hans Herrmann, who has died aged 97, will forever be remembered as Porsche’s first outright winner at the Le Mans 24 Hours together with Richard Attwood in 1970. But that is to overlook the other achi