Is there life after death? Are there ghosts? These questions related to the afterlife have plagued man probably since his appearance on Earth. But for many of the soldiers who were fighting lost in the vortex of the First World War, everything was clear. Soldiers with nerves completely broken by
At 05.00 on 16 May 1940 a company of the 8th Panzer Regiment (SPA) was ambushed in a rubble-strewn street in the French village of Stonne. The previous year the village had changed hands several times as the French troops tried to hold back the wave of German Panzers. The artillery of the two opp
After their defeat in Vienna, in 1683, the Turks accepted the counterattack of the Austrians, retreating to present-day Serbia. After the conquest of Belgrade by the Imperialists (the army of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, led by the Habsburg ruler of Austria), the Turks made Nice their
In world history he has remained as the model of the unyielding, measured and exacting judge. When Hans Hofmeier read the decision of the special court that judged in the 60s those responsible for Auschwitz, he entered the Pantheon of exemplary personalities. During the twenty months that the Aus