They say that in love and in war anything goes, because this is a love story in the middle of a war:that of the British Horace Greasley and the German Rosa Rauchbach during World War II. On Christmas 1918, two twins were born in a small English country town, Ibstock (in the county of Leicestershi
At the outbreak of the First World War, the territories of what would now be the Czech Republic and Slovakia —Czechoslovakia until 1992— were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but their membership was due more to political issues than to a sense of identity with the Habsburgs. In fact, they had m
To the well-known benefits of moderate beer consumption, today we are going to add that of being responsible for Ireland being able to maintain its neutrality during World War II. Arthur Guinness , founder of Guinness beer in Dublin (Ireland) in 1759, he was an atypical businessman for the time -ev
They say that history is the propaganda of the victors, but being forgotten as part of the victorious army is even more cruel. This is the story of the 140,000 Chinese workers who were hired by the Allies in World War I . The thousands of casualties suffered by the French and British, especially on
Before the advance of the German forces, on May 26, 1940, the British Marshal John Gort , Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), ordered the evacuation of allied troops on French soil... France had fallen. From various ports along Frances northern coast, notably Dunkirk, more t
The Dossin infantry barracks in Mechelen (Belgium) it became a detention center for Jews and Gypsies during the German occupation in World War II. More than 25,000 Jews and 352 gypsies were sent by train to Auschwitz... one of them was our protagonist. Dossin In February 1943, Channa Gronowski an
A handwritten note from Walter Kirke , head of the secret services of the British Expeditionary Force (British Expeditionary Force) during the First World War, aroused the curiosity of the English historian Raphael Stipic … […] a young woman dressed as a man and headed to the front line hoping to
I still remember my mother at her old Singer sewing machine where she would spend hours and hours pressing the pedal to sew, take the hem of a pair of pants, sew a skirt... whatever she needed, because my mother, like all of her old, had the soul of a dressmaker. Therefore, when I discovered this st
The Molotov cocktail it is an incendiary bomb that in its most widespread version - lately urban - is made up of a rag or piece of cloth that, as a fuse, is placed in the mouth of a bottle with flammable products; the fabric is lit and thrown. When the glass breaks, the content spreads as it comes i
The Nazis transformed Fort Breendonk -built in 1906 and located 20 km from Antwerp- in a prison camp. On September 20, 1940, the first prisoners arrived. They were petty criminals, people classified as antisocial and those who did not abide by the new laws imposed. Later they were Resistance fighter
The ideology of the Nazi leaders was always punctuated by esotericism and magic, but if they ever had real reasons to believe in witches, those responsible were the Nachthexen (night witches). This is what the Germans called the military aviators of the 588th Night Bombardment Regiment of the Sovie
Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt (The Führer Gives a City to the Jews) was a documentary film that was shot in the Czechoslovak countryside of Theresienstadt , today Terezín, to sell the goodness of the Nazi camps to the international community. Movie recording The Ministry of Propaganda o
During World War II, Norway declared itself neutral but Nazi Germany considered its occupation a strategic and economic necessity. On April 9, 1940 the Wehrmacht attacked Luftwaffe coastal defenses and raids they managed to disable the Norwegian air force in just 48 hours. Troops from the United Ki
In the summer of 1944 the situation was desperate for Germany:the eastern front had been broken and the Red Army was advancing rapidly; to the west and south, after taking Italy, the rest of the allies were knocking at the door. Hitler must have thought that in desperate situations, desperate measur
Even in the middle of a bloody war, the miracle of Christmas can take place. After the Normandy landings, Operation Overlord , the Allied offensive suffered a major setback when British airborne forces attempted to seize the Arnhem bridge. (Netherlands) one month later. Hitler decided to launch an
There are many testimonies that have come down to us from Nazi barbarism during World War II, but when the protagonists are children, like the sisters Eva and Kitty , the stories intensify and make us doubt the human condition of their executioners. At the Munich conference 1938, Germany recovered
In French researcher Jean-Noël Kapferer he published in 1989 a book titled Rumors , in which he tried to explain their origin, what they are, why they are created, how to stop them... including several examples such as the case of Orleans (France) in 1969:the rumor spread that in womens clothing a
In June 1941, Hitler begins the offensive on the Eastern Front to invade the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), an overly ambitious plan. The brutal German offensive managed to break through the unsuspecting Red Army defenses and quickly gain ground. However, the arrival of winter stabilized the f
It seems that the goddess Fortuna accompanied Hitler on the different occasions in which he was tried to eliminate, either individually as the Swiss student Maurice Bavaud or the carpenter Georg Elser, or in perfectly orchestrated operations such as Valkyrie. Even so, and as was logical, security me
Hildegar Fink , 75-year-old German, she was only five years old when she was expelled along with her family from her Rosternitz , a town in the Sudetenland in todays Czech Republic. Months after Germany lost the war, she and her family, like many others, were beginning to pay off the debt of havin
In 1942, to relieve Stalin who faced the IIIth Reich in the East, the Allies attempt to open a second front by landing in Dieppe. But faced with the Atlantic Wall (built on Hitlers orders by the German engineer Todt then the architect Speer and directed by Rommel) which lined the beaches with barbed
Some time ago, in an article that we published here with the title When Poland snatched territories from Czechoslovakia before being invaded by Germany in World War II, we ended the text with a lapidary phrase:«Poland had sown winds and now gathered storms». Well, that stormy moment began on Septe
The term damned soldiers refers to the Polish fighters who resisted the Soviet yoke, from 1944 until the early 1950s. Similar resistance movements existed in all Eastern European countries that passed under the Stalinist yoke, such as in the Baltic countries - Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania - but also i
The Aztecs (or Mexicas) dominated southern and central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th century, building an empire there. and a brilliant civilization . The term “Aztec” comes from Aztlan , mythical homeland of northern Mexico meaning in Nawatl White Land .” This term was popularized by historians