An 88-year-old great-grandmother still receives a Christmas card every year from the German pen pal she has been writing to since she was 12. Sylvia Perkins, from Bermondsey, south-east London ...

“Presents are opened, a practice from Germany which never caught on nationally unlike decorating the tree and Christmas cards which date from the 1840s.” The King’s House of Windsor is of ...

Over every radio station in the Third Reich, nervous Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, last week broadcast a Christmas message to the German people. It was no message of cheer.