President Hindenburg initially refused to appoint Hitler as Chancellor and placed von Papen in the post. In the meantime, the escalating situation had almost degenerated into civil war. The crisis of the Republic deepened in the autumn of 1932. After the newly elected parliament was dissolved in September, another election was held in November, the…
The fighting at Sokolov was not only the first appearance of a Czechoslovak military unit in the Soviet Union, but also the first ever appearance of women in the ranks of the Czechoslovak army. army. One of them was the successful sniper Marie Ljalkova. Despite the fact that Colonel v. v. Marie Ljalkova-Lastovecká is…
The last German soldier to officially surrender after World War II was Wilhelm Dege. It happened in the Arctic, months after the war was over. Germany sent a 12-man expedition to the Arctic in 1944 to the Svalbard peninsula to build a weather station on the coast and report weather data to the Reich. Wilhelm…
In 1944, the Red Army launched a major offensive in Belarus that drove the Germans to the gates of Berlin. Operation Bagration was the largest Red Army offensive of the entire Second World War. During the fighting, photographer Yevgeny Yevzerichin took this iconic photo showing the operators of the 152mm howitzers. It is a model…
What would have happened if Germany had launched air attacks on Britain just three weeks earlier?What if the Germans had not switched from attacking airfields to bombing civilian targets in September 1940?Mathematicians developed a model for an alternative history and concluded that the Germans could have defeated the British The Battle of Britain is one…
Nazi Germany had a number of secret or at least not very official rituals and symbols. The death’s-head ring was one of them. Thousands of them have been left undiscovered. Totenkopfring de SS The Totenkopfring, or death’s-head ring, earned its wearer honour and respect in the Nazi hierarchy. Not everyone had one. And whoever had…
Nobody can see inside Stalin’s head. The British play second fiddle, so Churchill desperately presses the US: „Free Prague!“ Perhaps to atone for Munich. But six days before the first American troops enter our territory, President Roosevelt dies. And to General Eisenhower, we are just pieces on the chessboard of war. The defeat of the…
The tendency today to excuse the Nazis by saying that the Resistance was responsible for the tragedy of Lidice, for example, is shamefully embarrassing. During the six years of occupation, Czechs were executed for telling a political joke or listening to foreign radio. The uprising was exacerbated by the atrocities committed by the Nazis in…
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