Ethiopia, known for centuries as Abyssinia, is one of the oldest states in Africa. With a strong Christian element, in the 16th century it found itself fighting for survival against the Muslims of Ahmad Gran (Ahmed the Left-Handed), who were supported by Sultan Suleiman the so-called The Magnificent
We are looking for the traces of Heinrich Schitz just outside the city of Munich in Feldaffing. A former SS doctor who lived here after his trial. He was sentenced to ten years in prison for complicity in the murder of 11 people. Only these could be proved. But his victims were much more – mostly pr
After occupying Denmark and Norway the Germans sought volunteers for their battle against the Soviet Union. On June 28, 1941, they formed the voluntary Free Corps Denmark. 480 Danes were initially assigned to the corps. These men were given SS uniforms and sent to Hamburg for training. At the end of
On May 11, 1960, the war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who had fled to Argentina with a false identity, is kidnapped by a group of Israeli secret services after a multi-year search operation. Ten days later, drugged and dressed in an El Al airline uniform, he is taken by Mossad agents to Israel. Instigat
In 1940 the French army extended five Cavalry Divisions. Of these four were in the Ardennes sector when the Germans attacked on 10 May. The French 2nd Army of General Huntziger and the 9th Army of General Cora had been deployed in this sector. The first had the 2nd and 5th Light Cavalry Divisions (L
The British battleship HMS “Barham” was one of the five ships of the Queen Elizabeth class. It was put into service in 1915 and took part in the eponymous and pivotal naval battle of Jutland, in 1916, which decided the sea struggle in the First World War. The ships of the class were the most powerfu
Jean Charles chevalier (knight) de Folard is a completely unique figure in military history and the art of war. He was born in 1669 in Avignon, France. In adolescence, only 16 years old, having read Julius Caesars On the Galatians and On the Civil War, he ran away from home and enlisted in the Frenc
The cult of personality of Stalin, one of the greatest murderers in human history, had reached unbelievable levels. In fact, Stalin was worshiped by the Soviets and other communists around the world as an earthly god, or at least thats what they had to show. Everything went through him, everythi
Two private companies have announced that they have discovered the wreck of the battleship USS Nevada about 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. The photos of the remains, in fact, show that parts of the ship remain intact. The search for the remains of the American warship was also made pos
Croatia was an Italian-German satellite state created after the breakup of Yugoslavia in April 1941. Its murderous fascist leader Ante Pavelic ordered the formation of Croatian armed forces to reinforce his Axis allies and overlords. The last Croatian Infantry Division (IP) to be formed was the 392n
Fascist Italy possessed, in theory, a powerful navy in the first phase of the Second World War, capable of facing the corresponding French or British Mediterranean Fleet alone, in cooperation with the Italian air force that would launch from the “ unsinkable aircraft carriers, Sicily and Sardinia.
The brief Egypt-Libya war is one of the relatively unknown chapters of Arab history and relates to the attitude of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat towards Israel after his countrys heavy defeat in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Gaddafi, appearing as the most fanatical defender of Arab rights, after the co
Nazi Germanys economic relations with the Soviet Union dated shortly after Hitlers rise to power. However, they intensified after the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pacts and supplementary secret protocols in 1939 and a subsequent agreement in 1940. The great socialist fatherland, based on th
The MiG-21 was perhaps the hallmark of Soviet aviation during the Cold War. His appearance caused concern in the West, which was soon overcome as the lessons learned from the militants action against Israel began to be learned. The Soviet fighter was for years the backbone of the Egyptian, Iraqi and
The Grenadier Division (MG) Scharnhorst began to be formed on March 30, 1945, a few days before the end of the Second World War in Europe. Nevertheless it proved to be one of the elite large units of the German army in this final phase of the war fighting heroically, as if Germany were not losing th
Italian Marshal Rodolfo Graziani was one of the greatest war criminals in history. However he never paid for his crimes staying in prison for just 4 months. Graziani distinguished himself in Italys war against Ethiopia in 1936. He himself was a fanatical fascist, suspicious bordering on paranoia and
In 1735 the Crimean Tatars, allies of the Turks, made yet another devastating raid on the lands of the Russian Empire. This was the reason for the declaration of war by the Russians against the Tatars and Turks. In 1739 the war had passed through several stages. In 1739, the Russian army of the Germ
Peru was one of the most important countries to emerge from the breakup of the Spanish colonial empire in South America. In theory he should field one of the strongest armies as well. But the political game of power did not allow such a thing and when the need arose the army was unprepared. The
In May 1942 the situation in North Africa was favorable for the Axis powers. So General Rommel was ordered from Berlin and Rome to continue his attack. After the decision was taken, the drawing up of plans for its implementation began. The German services did not manage this time to gather enough in
The German inlet of Messines was an obvious target of the British since 1915 already. The capture of Messines Ridge was vital as its possession by the Germans afforded the latter an absolute view of the British positions at great depth. In the case of Messines, the term ridge seems overly generous a
The period of Terror (1792-1794), during the French Revolution, was marked by religious and political persecution, civil wars, and executions by guillotine. At that time, France was being led by the Jacobins, considered the most radical among the revolutionaries, and therefore this period is also k
The work of the surveyors was not confined to the calculation and staking out of the roads. Thanks to the huge amounts of data they were able to collect (distances between cities, obstacles, bridges, etc.), they provided the basis for the work of the people responsible for drawing up the maps. 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
Charles Dickens, photographed in 1867 by Jeremia Gurney and London in the 19th century • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS / ISTOCKPHOTO No one better than Charles Dickens was able to capture the two facets of the London of his time. The bright side of the leap into modernity, and the dark side of child poverty