Capital of the Nabataeans until the second century AD. AD and located in present-day Jordan, Petra is an ancient city of rare beauty with the appearance of an impregnable fortress. The city, whose name means rock in Greek, rose in the middle of sandstone cliffs veined with red, purple and yellow whe
German soldiers in Place du Tertre, Paris • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS To know what the German soldiers who occupied France during the Second World War thought, we would need first-hand testimonies, without filters, dating from the time of the events… By an extraordinary chance, we have such testimonies.
On August 25, 1939, the Russian foreign ministers, Molotov , and German, Ribbentrop They sign a non-aggression pact. The sentence of Poland and the beginning of World War II were signed. On September 1, Germany invades Poland and two days later the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Sou
Born in Löwicz, Pomerania, in 1684, Kurt Christopher Count von Schwerin came from the ducal house of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. At a young age he turned to the military and during the War of the Spanish Succession (1700-1715), he enlisted in the Dutch army. He fought in the Allies victorious battles o