In 1871, when Bismarck (Prussian Prime Minister) took control of the country, the flag was changed but re-adopted again in 1919 when Germany became a republic. In 1933, the flag was changed once again following the takeover of Germany by the Nazis and was re-instated in 1949, following...
traitors, and trade union leaders • Jews dressed, looked, and acted like any other German • This similarity caused a problem for the Nazis in deciding who was Jewish • In the early days, Nazis were not sure how to solve problems like mixed marriages and tracing ancestry • Worked...
flag of PrussiaKingdom of Prussia state flag, 1892–1918.(more) The original Prussians, mainly hunters and cattle breeders, spoke a language belonging to the Baltic group of the Indo-European language family. These early Prussians were related to the Latvians and Lithuanians and lived in trib...
History of Namibia, a survey of the important events and people in the history of Namibia. The country, located on the southwestern coast of Africa, was originally inhabited by the San peoples and was home to other groups as well before being subjected t
We had to get up early each morning, standing to attention in the freezing cold and singing whilst the flag was being hoisted. Then someone stole my purse. My holiday was mainly doing what other people told you to all the time, like standing to attention and raising our arms for the ...
The Anti-Semitism Commissioner of Baden-Württemberg, who is not Jewish, wrote,“The Nazis were still hiding their mass murders, whereas Hamas celebrated them in the media, like Daesh before them.” Not everything is as it seems in Germany. That tree? It used to be a Jew. That ...
My friend, Jo Williams, who lived in Shanghai during the war told me: We used to walk by the huge Nazi swastika flag hanging from the upper floors down to street level on the Bund in Shanghai. I have childhood memories of bad vibes coming from that dark sinister flag. I never entered...
”Theextermination of theJews by theNazis,thus,has to be con-sideredasthe negative climaxof boththecivil societyas well as the“Germannation.”⁶⁵Auschwitzis no longer regardedas merelythe crimesof NationalSocialismbutparticularlyastheGermancrime.Additionally, theAntideutschenclearlyrejectedthe...
According to the sailors, they were unaware of the building at which the flag was being flown was the German consulate. In his memoirs, consulFritz Wiedemann, who witnessed the incident, recalled it as “both surreal and comical”. The United States government issued an apology to Germany. Th...
In addition, the Hungarians, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, paid their own travel costs and refused to take part as anything but native Hungarians under their own flag. Irish athletes refused to compete as part of Britain and the Turks refused to take part at all, denouncing the Athe...