After all, in the 1860s, there were a number of German states, like Bavaria, Hanover, and Saxony, which, in terms of either land mass or population, were quite comparable to Germany's medium-sized states (not counting colonies or in Denmark's case Greenland), and these non-German state...
Under the occupation, German minority of Lithuania declined from 4,1% (41,9% in Klaipėda region where Šilutė is) to merely 0,1% of the population.3.Visit the Museum of Lithuania Minor in Klaipėda Old Town which describes the part of Lithuanian nation that formed under the German ...
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 ...
Bacque also shines a hard light on the Western media, from the “New York Times” on down, for concealing or outrightly denying the Allies’ complicity in numerous atrocities; on their craven betrayal of the anti-Hitler German resistance, the anti-Soviet Cossacks, and the Free Poles; and on...
Under the occupation, German minority of Lithuania declined from 4,1% (41,9% in Klaipėda region where Šilutė is) to merely 0,1% of the population.3.Visit the Museum of Lithuania Minor in Klaipėda Old Town which describes the part of Lithuanian nation that formed under the German ...
and several proposals for annexation had been put forward in Rome, none was actually carried out during the war due to pressure from the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, and from the Germans, who were concerned of further alienating the Greek population, which was already strongly opposing ...
What he learned about the image of Germany and the self-perception of the CIS population, and why the Germans, contrary to the cliché, are not more diligent. by Leo Ensel In the fall of 1996, in the middle of the heyday of Yeltsin's predatory capitalism, I conducted my first interc...
Many people of course will associate the Battle of Britain with Luftwaffe attacks on cities and airfields in the south of England. However, the reality is that the whole of the UK, including NE population centres Aberdeen, Fraserburgh and Peterhead came under intensive aerial bombardment, resulting...
in north west Africa, after the launch of operation Torch in November 1942. There had been a number of Channel Islanders with the battalion since the early days in France, it was noted they were key to liaising with the French population and securing billets in 1939/40. This was still ...
work would be on farms, producing food for a population recovering from the war. and working in tyre factories. From the end of January 1944, German and Italian pow's were flowing into Great Britain for interrogation before having to be incarcerated in pow camps. Whereas the Italians were of...