After World War 1, Hermann Göring was to become Adolf Hitler’s right hand man and one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi party that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 and took Germany to its darkest place in history. But that was well in the future, over the western front battle...
Cunard had lost fewer ships during the war. Their biggest lost liner was the Lusitania which was torpedoed and sunk in 1915. Consequently after the war, Cunard still had a fleet which could quickly dominate the Atlantic routes.
After the war some South Africans were arrested, some having served in the German Waffen SS, and they surrender to the Allied forces occupying Germany in 1945, to a man all claiming they were just fighting against the Communist onslaught of the Red Army. Theirs is an interesting story and a...
Wartime and Post-war Economies (Japan) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 5 作者: M Schiltz 摘要: Although the military and geopolitical relevance of World War I to Japan must be considered limited, its economic impact was ...
Troopers of the U.S. Constabulary on patrol in post-war Germany. The establishment of the military police force helped the country’s transition defeat to . (Image source: WikiMedia Commons) “The U.S. Constabulary stands as an example of effective military law enfor...
In 1940 as World War 2 was ramping up, Nazi Germany occupied and annexed the East Cantons back into Germany. Many of the German speaking inhabitants supported the move; however that support dropped significantly when the German Army conscripted most of the male population into the military and ...
Londonderry, Lieutenent-General Charles William Vane Marquess (Sir Charles Stewart) Narrative of the war in Germany and France in 1813 and 1814 (London 1830) Boyen, Generalfeldmarschall, Herman vonDenkwürdigkeiten und Erinnerungen, 1771-1813, 2 vols (Stuttgart 1899) ...
but his method was impractical for commercial use. Commercial production started in 1891, but the result was flammable, and more expensive than acetate or cuprammonium rayon. Because of this, production was stopped before World War I, for example in 1912 in Germany. Briefly, it became known ...
There were captured Richard, the king of Germany, Robert Bruce and John Comyn, who had led the Scots thither. Also King Henry had his horse wounded under him, and giving himself up to earl Simon was soon brought under guard to the priory. There were killed on that day many Scottish ...
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