Defeated Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, a treaty which, by all accounts, was a prelude to a new war. The victorious Allies imposed very heavy conditions on the defeated Germans, but they later neglected to comply with them. However, the situation at the military level began
The King of Prussia, Frederick William I, was a special historical figure. To his energy and his interest you owe the creation of the best army that Europe had seen since the Roman period. Measured and disciplined himself as a man, he imposed the same order and discipline on his kingdom from the
The 13th Musketeer Regiment was one of the best in the Prussian army and Europe, in its time. His men fought superbly in every conflict they were called to participate in, writing an indelible page of glory and earning for their regiment the nickname:Lightning and Lightning Regiment. The constitu
The Panther tank was designed as a response to Soviet tank superiority, both in quality and numbers. Its construction specifications were set in January 1942, while the Battle of Moscow was still in progress. The prototypes appeared in August of the same year and the first production Panther left
75 years ago, as Allied staffs were preparing the largest-ever landing operation in Normandy, British intelligence had a panic attack, literally, when they discovered that Britains Daily Telegraph had published, in the crossword puzzle of the day, all the code names relating to the impending landing
Already in 1943 the state of Hitlers health was tragic. According to some scholars, the symptoms of Parkinsons disease had already begun to manifest, which over time afflicted him more and more. This particular disease also dramatically affects the brain functions of the patient. His health was dete
The Japanese army showed relatively late interest in tanks. From the mid-1920s, he began the effort to develop domestic tanks. Tanks were considered infantry support weapons, according to French doctrine. The Yasuoka Group it had the 3rd Tank Regiment with four tank companies (26 Type 89, 4 Type
Oswald Belke, was one of the first aces of the ethers and trainer of the famous Red Baron. On January 5, 1916, Belke in the famous Fokker Eindecker I monoplane over the area of the city of Lille in northern France. Belke then spotted a British two-seat reconnaissance aircraft, carrying Lieuten
Panzer Division (Panzer Division) Kurmark was one of the units of the last days of the Hitlerite Third Reich. It was named after the homonymous region of Brandenburg. The division began to be formed in January 1945 from the remnants of the Langeit Brigade and the Replacement Brigade of the famous Gr
The Jagdtiger tank hunter (Tiger hunter) was a development of the Tiger II battle tank (Pz VI Königstiger – royal Tiger). It was the heaviest and most powerful armored vehicle to enter service during World War II. It had a weight of 71 tons, a maximum armor thickness of 250 mm. maximum road speed
In 1860 the Austrian Army was not at the height of its power. The defeat of 1859 by the French and Italians of Piedmont had cost materially and morally. Despite this, the Habsburg emperor Francis Joseph did not dare to proceed with the necessary reforms. The consequence of the defeat of 1859 was
Dutch director Jan Fernhout directed, in 1964, a short film entitled Fortified Switzerland. The 20-minute film presents the Swiss army of the time in full force, with the scenario envisaging an enemy invasion on Swiss soil. The entire Swiss arsenal of the time is presented in the video. Of cours
The infamous “Bermuda Triangle” where many ships and planes are said to have been lost is a 270,000 square mile stretch of ocean between Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Florida. There are many legends about the area. But most were born after the disappearance, on December 5, 1945, of a squadron of five
Erwin Rommel is considered one of the best German generals of the Second World War, but also the only one whose name was not tarnished by war crimes of the forces under him. But for one British officer, Rommel was also a savior. Captain Roy Wooldridge served in the Engineer. Prior to the Normandy
Otto Skorzeny was one of the most famous German fighters of World War II. Member of the Brandenburg elite planned, executed, participated in or directed the most daring German cruiser operations during the war. Although he is best known for the dramatic liberation of Mussolini and the action of h
The British Lee Metford rifle, an ancestor of the Lee Enfield entered service in 1888. It was the first repeating rifle of the British Army and remained in use for many decades. It chambered a .303in (7.7mm) cartridge. The first Lee Enfield entered service in 1895. When the repeating rifle was pr
The Turks are guilty of the genocides of Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians and others. The Turks, of course, did not exterminate entire populations only in the first decades of the 20th century. As for the Armenians one of their biggest massacres is the one that happened in 1895-96 and became known as
Semion Rosenfeld, the last known survivor of the Sobibor extermination camp and the uprising that occurred there, died today at the age of 96 in Israel. Born in Ukraine, he was a soldier in the Soviet army and one of about 50 camp inmates who survived the uprising against the Germans. From May 1
The Prussian cavalry at the beginning of the 18th century. and until about 1742, it followed obsolete tactics. The Prussian horsemen moved slowly against the enemy, so as to maintain their cohesion as much as possible, halting their movement several times to charge against him. When they were attack
On June 22, 1941, German troops invaded the Soviet Union, marking the beginning of the largest land military operation of all time and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. Against the Soviet colossus, the German Army did not change its hitherto highly successful tactic, the Blitzkrieg. T
The Russian Revolution of 1917 there were two popular uprisings:the first took place in February, against the government of Tsar Nicholas II, and the second, in October. In the February Revolution, the revolutionaries abolished the monarchy and, in the October Revolution, they began to implement a
«And since the Persians had suffered years before a great shipwreck when going to double the cape of Athos, they also began, about three years before the present expedition, to arrange the passage through said mountain, practicing in the following way:They had their galleys at Eleunte, a city 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
While it existed, the Soviet Union encompassed a vast expanse of territory, including the Ukrainian, Georgian, and Russian Black Sea coasts. Along these lines, numerous Greek colonies were founded in ancient times, such as Chersonesus, Theodosia, Phanagoria, Pitio or Dioscuríade, among others, later