The answer is… nettles . In addition to the well-known medicinal properties (diuretic, antirheumatic, astringent...) and nutritional properties (due to its richness in mineral salts and vitamins), nettles have had other uses that were exploited by the Germans, in the First World War, and the Britis
If in the Iberian Peninsula the British controlled the Rock of Gibraltar, since the 18th century during the War of Spanish Succession, at the beginning of World War II they controlled Eastern Gibraltar, Singapore , in Southeast Asia. On December 8, 1941, the Japanese began the Malay Campaign , at t
Sponsored Post The first jet fighter aircraft was the Messerschmitt Me 262 built by the Germans. Although based on a 1939 prototype, technical problems and the pilots lack of skill in this type of aircraft forced their first flight to be delayed until 1942. Their first combat missions did not arr
We have already talked on several occasions about the animals used during wars, some with happy endings (Voytek) and other cruel ones (animals used as bombs), but todays borders on the tragicomic. In 1944 the Project Pigeon was developed (Dove Project ) which consisted of putting pigeons inside a
A few days ago she told you about the collection of Fighter Jets from Editorial Planeta DeAgostini and I remembered reading something about a German aviator who volunteered to test the first jet planes… Hannah Reitsch Hannah Reitsch Although she enrolled in medicine at the University of Berlin,
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
One of the beliefs of the Nazi ideology was the superiority of the Aryan race, maintaining «racial hygiene » through eugenics (the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention… such as elimination or sterilization). This idea was not originally from the Nazis... but
Account Juan Eslava Galán , in his book « The years of fear «, An anecdote of a Galician countryman who was preparing the tools to go out to mow the hay, when a luxurious car arrived at the door of his house. Two merchants from the region and a man dressed in an elegant coat and a brimmed hat got o
Although popular sayings say that the oldest profession in the world is that of prostitution, I would say that it is that of soldier or warrior depending on the time. If something has characterized all societies and at any time in history, it has been wars. Regardless of the reasons that caused them
After the invasion of Iraq, in 2003, it was found that many of the photographs taken by spy satellites - apparently war material - were nothing more than models to appear more warlike potential (I am not referring to weapons of mass destruction, but to conventional weapons). But this trick had alrea
In times of war, anything goes… or so it seems. These are some of the projects in which animals were used for military purposes: Bomb Bats :Developed by the US in World War II to be used against Japan. The bat-pump project was conceived by dental surgeon Lytle S. Adams , who presented it to the Whi
We already talked in a previous post, animals used as bombs, the wild use of animals in battles, today we have another story of this type but with a look, at least, different. This is the story of Voytek , the bear that was enlisted in the 22nd Transport Company of the Polish Army during World War I
The Battle of Verdun (1916), fought between February 21 and December 19, 1916 in northeastern France, was the longest and one of the bloodiest battles between the German and French armies during the First World War - a quarter of million dead and around half a million wounded on both sides. The init
If the images of the great war that have come down to us give us an idea of the cruelty, the horror, the suffering, the barbarism... thanks to the Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov we can take a trip through time and move to those scenarios or, better yet, we can bring those images and embed th
The Waffen-SS they were the combat corps of the SS (Schutzstaffel ). Directed by Heinrich Himmler , the Waffen-SS was created as a protection unit for the Nazi Party and later became a fighting force during World War II. Most members of the Waffen-SS had a small tattoo on the inside of the left arm
We continue with the collaborations of our friends. In this case, the post is sent to us by Antonio Correas from Lite Strabo. The Battle of Kursk was not only the largest tank confrontation in history, but also the turning point of World War II. From this point on, Hitlers Germany ceased to have th
With the premiere of the film «Operation Valkyrie » by Tom Cruise has returned to cinematic news, if he ever left, the Second World War and the assassination attempt on Hitler. This attempt was the closest to achieving its goal, but there were many others. Lets detail some of them: Â The sixth sen
Jorge Pérez Troya He was born in Torre de Juan Abad (Ciudad Real) in 1916. At the age of 20 he was involved in the Civil War , fought in the Alcázar de Toledo, in the Alto de los Leones, in Guadarrama and in Jarama (as a sergeant and in charge of an anti-aircraft battery). After the end of the
The bombings and the siege to which the republican zone was subjected, after the July 1936 uprising, forced the authorities to evacuate the children. First to places far from the front and later to countries like France, England, Belgium, Mexico... all of them in solidarity with the Republic and all
Polish President Lech Kaczynski, Jewish leaders and hundreds of people attended the funeral of Marek Edelman , the last leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis in 1943 .The Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto was the first act of a major civil resistance against the Nazi occupiers in
Pierre Ponchardier the Ponch Pierre Ponchardier (October 4, 1909 - January 27, 1961) was a French admiral (rear-admiral) born in Saint-Étienne.Biography After the Naval School, he took courses at the Air Force Application School in Versailles. He joined the naval aviation and commanded 1B squadro
Charles-Maurice de, Prince of Bénévent (Paris, February 13, 1754 - id., May 17, 1838). Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, commonly known as Talleyrand, was a French politician and diplomat, born February 2, 1754 in Paris, died in the same city on May 17, 1838. Heir to a large family, lame, he
When I saw the Germans coming from the west and the Russians from the east, I thought that the end of us had come, said Eugene Tchaikovsky, born in 1913, in a report on German public television, when asked to recall what he experienced on September 17, 1939. At 6 a.m. that day, over 4,000 Soviet
But it was all just illusions. The successes of the Germans had cost them dearly:during the first twenty-two days of the offensive alone, the German armored units had lost more than half of their tanks; as of July 19, 1,284 enemy aircraft were out of action. From July to September, great battles too