WWII trauma impacts physical and mental health in the oldest old: results from a German population-based studyWorld War IImorbiditymedical conditiondepressionallostatic loadIntroduction: Epidemiological studies in different traumatised samples indicate an increased risk for numerous physical and mental diseases...
By 1790, when the first census of Americans was taken, more than 8.6 percent of the overall population of the United States was German, although in Pennsylvania more than 33 percent was German. During the Revolutionary War, these German Americans were numerically strengthened by the arrival of ...
the film is a mirror of Hitler Germany's own war for survival. In its characterization of Kolberg's besieged citizenry, the epic allegorically reflects the spirit of fanatical resolve to fight on, that Nazi propaganda was attempting to instill in the German population during the final years of...
Some disarmed the German military, while others stripped the defeated nation of territory, population and economic resources, and forced it to admit responsibility for the war and agree to pay reparations. Read more Treaty of Versailles The Fourteen Points In a speech to Congress in January 1918...
While the details of what actually happened versus what was supposed to happen (or not happen) remain somewhat sketchy, it was clearly a military vs military attack, and not intended to deliberately target the civilian population of Rotterdam. This, however, will inevitably beg the question “why...
By late 1918, Germany had almost lost her major allies and her land forces were being pushed back on the Western Front. Large numbers of American troops had begun to arrive, and a sailors’ revolt had begun during October, which had lit the fuse of revolution. The civilian population was ...
The early 20th century German Shepherd breeding program extensively line bred and inbred "color coat" dogs that carried Greif's recessive gene for "white coats" to refine and expand the population of early German Shepherd Dogs. White coats were made a disqualification in the German Shepherd Dog ...
It is never easy to read about the horrors that the German Jewish population had to endure to survive. I was particularly impressed with the actions of Walter and his family, especially their daughter. To be so bold as to fight for a position with the Reich and then to move his family ...
In October 1946, The Propaganda Branch, Intelligence Division, based in the Pentagon, Washington D.C., published a report entitledA Syllabus of Psychological Warfare.It was prepared to give quick answers about Psywar to the press that wanted to know what the United States had done during WWII....
During the war, Hitler had instituted food rations, limiting its civilian population to no more than 2,000 calories per day. After the war, the Allies continued this foodrationingpolicy and limited the population to between 1,000 to 1,500 calories per day.1 ...