With World War II rapidly approaching, there was a call for the Volksdeutsche, - people of German heritage outside the Reich to return home to the Fatherland and help defend it.

OTTAWA—An American historian thinks it’s possible that German agents touched off the fire which destroyed the Centre Block of Parliament in 1916, in the middle of the First World War.

A growing number of American Jews whose parents and grandparents fled Germany during World War II are now getting German citizenship, in part because of political concerns in the United States.