*Christina Koulouri is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Rector at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. We have been waiting for 2021 since the previous years as an opportunity to revisit 1821 and appreciate the historical course of Greece until today. After all, t
During World War II, Axis leaders dreamed of attacking the United States, especially New York. Hitler planned a series of attacks, but the Italians also planned to hit a city in Manhattan. It was supposed to be a real shock for the Americans. Even before the outbreak of the war, the Caproni ship
When talking about Nazism and massacres, the general public automatically thinks of the Jewish holocaust. When documentaries or movies appear on the subject, it is implied that those killed in the camps are solely Jews. This is diametrically false. The Jewish people suffered the extermination of the
In the small town of Zossen, south of Berlin, a small German army barracks was built in 1910. During the First World War the place was converted into a prisoner of war camp. 30,000 Muslims, Africans and Indians who fought on the French and British sides passed through there. In 1915, the first mosqu