A new monument unveiled on Saturday in Amherst, N.S., honours the men who formed Canada's only all-Black battalion in the First World War. More than 20 men from the Amherst and Cumberland County ...

Usually known as the Thaelmann Battalion in Spain, the battalion was named after Ernst Thalmann, leader of the KPD, German Communist Party. He was arrested as soon as Hitler took power in 1933 and ...