These colours represent the freedom of the people, particularly related to democracy born after the dictatorship of the Second World War. In 1959, the flag of East Germany is changed to differentiate it from that of West Germany. Socialist symbols were added in its center : wheat for farmers,...
The Dada wave has also spread to Germany, a divided country who enjoyed the favorable conclusion of the Weltkrieg while it suffered from the long war and blockade: Max Ernst and George Grosz's work, for instance, is characterized by the trauma of the war years. In urbanism, Walter Gropius...
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 ...
German shipyards had difficulty producing the ships ordered by Hitler and on the outbreak of the Second World War the German Navy only had two battleships, two battlecruisers, three armoured cruisers, three heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, 22 destroyers and 59 submarines. Soon afterwards the ...
The opening parade at the White City was the usual brotherly fest when the Finns, whose land had been annexed by Russia in 1809, marched separately from the Russian imperial contingent and pointedly without a flag. The US contingent, full of Irish first and second generation athletes, refused ...
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s "Fourteen Points" and believe that they can make a fair peace with the help of the American president. Unfortunately, the British and French will demand their pound of flesh in repatriations, and this will lead to German anger, desire for revenge, and World War Two just two decades ...
Flag of East Germany After World War II, the tricolour was adopted in West Germany on 9 May 1949. However, the flag of East Germany was almost the same but on 1 October 1959, the national emblem was placed in the centre. Source: germanculture.com.ua, Image: Pixabay ...
A treaty with the Herero and the raising of the British flag over Walvis Bay were seen as forerunners of the northward expansion of the Cape Colony. However, London proved reluctant to take on added costs in an apparently valueless area, and the way was left open to German colonial ...
away from the perils of war, beautiful women, exotic food --- and because of such, convinced other members that would be the place to relocate and/or settle. However, right around the same time the crew member(s) left, German subs torpedoed and sank two Mexican flag vessels: theSS Pot...