Straede is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, specializing in Holocaust studies, and the Consulting Historian for the Courage to Act: Rescue in ...

In May 1941, the German Kriegsmarine launched Operation Rheinübung, a breakout into the Atlantic. The newly commissioned ...

Hunting and fishing is an important part of Greenlandic culture. (Photo by Mads Pihl/Visit Greenland) (CN) — “When the Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede went ashore in Greenland in 1721, it was ...

A story has haunted Charleston for 200 years now. It may, or may not, be entirely true. It is about bondage and freedom, fear and courage, and 35 Black men who gave their lives so that future ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ship ...

HØJE-TAASTRUP, DENMARK – In a western suburb of Copenhagen, a group of soon-to-be upper secondary school graduates gathered in mid-June under a bicycle shelter to decorate a banner for their ...

Queen Margrethe of Denmark announced that she will abdicate the throne, making her son the new monarch and his wife, Mary, the new queen consort Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter ...