Night of the Long Knives, in German history, purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler on June 30, 1934. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Rohm,
U.S. officials were now well aware ofAdolf Hitler’s atomic ambitions. In his letter to Roosevelt, Einstein explicitly called attention to uranium reserves inCzechoslovakiathat had fallen under the control of theThird Reichin March 1939. The British had also begun studying fission, and Urey and...
died in the battle. The monument that’s going up in Bauska, however, has angered Russia. Because, the Kremlin says, it glorifies Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. You see, Latvia was occupied by the SS when the Russians invaded and the people who fought against the Red Army in Bauska were...
Have you ever wondered why Easter can fall in either March or April, unlike Christmas which is always on December 25th? For example, last year Easter was on April 9th, while this year it falls on March 31st. The reason behind the shifting date of Easter is quite interesting. Easter is ...
In "The Prophecies" (1555-1558), a collection of quatrains in three volumes, believers claim he predicted the Great London Fire of 1666; the French Revolution; the rise of Napoléon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler; the atom bomb; the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy;...
Emmy Göring died in Munich on 8 June 1973 at the age of 80. Link to Wikipedia biography Relationships business associate/partner relationship withHitler, Adolf(born 20 April 1889). Notes: She was his hostess opponent/rival/enemy relationship withBraun, Eva(born 6 February 1912) ...
On June 4, 1941, Wilhelm II, formerly German Emperor and King of Prussia, died of a pulmonary embolism at Huis Doorn, his home in exile in Doorn, the Netherlands. He was 82 years old and had lived at Huis Doorn since 1920. After Wilhelm’s death, Adolf Hitler wanted to bring his re...
Richard Wagner, one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite composers who is commonly associated with German nationalism, played in the background. By MARCUS M. GILBAN / JTA \ 1/21/2020 3:20:19 AM Rep. Russ Fulcher highlights Idahoans and his own support for Israel ...
John Brown(born May 9, 1800,Torrington,Connecticut, U.S.—died December 2, 1859,Charles Town, Virginia [now in West Virginia]) was a militant Americanabolitionistwhoseraid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry,Virginia(now inWest Virginia), in 1859 made him amartyrto the antislavery cause...
The end of WWI changed the nation, ushering in the 1918 revolution that brought down the monarchy and installed the fractious, short-lived Weimar republic that led, ultimately, to the rise of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. In Germany, the trauma and atrocities of World War II completely...