The City of Shadows: Danzig as Stefan Gillespie saw it. Jan Bulhak, Views of old Danzig
In the mid-1920s a monument was built in East Prussia on the site of the August 1914 battle of Tannenberg, in which German forces under Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg defeated the Russian 2nd Army
Odin, Nordic God, is Wotan to the Germans. He was crucified voluntarily on the Iggr Tree of Terror, hanging there for nine nights until he found the salvific Runes, which make possible the recovery of lost Divinity by heroes.
Description Alternate history map. The Austrian rump state hangs on to more German-speaking territory and successfully unites with a diminished Germany, which had lost most of the Polish parts of the Prussian province of Posen to Poland and Alsace-Lorraine to France. The Sudetenland is inhabited by Germans and claimed by Germany, but controlled by Czechoslovakia, which is supported by the Entente.
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In preparation for the upcoming offensive against the Allies, the Germans put up a fierce defense in the Hurtgen Forest on the Siegfried line. The battle was fought from September 19th to December 16th, 1944 and resulted in a successful German defensive victory. The Americans under the command of Omar Bradley launched a series of attacks against the German lines but to no avail and took heavy casualties. It is estimated that the Americans lost around 55,000 men compared to the Germans losing 28,000 men. The Germans were now able to use the forest as a staging point for the Battle of the Bulge. Full view of the Hurtgen Forest Collab. The collab turned out great and it was good being a part of it. Thanks to everyone who helped or contributed including Tobias, Brendon, Joe, Mason, Brailey, Alex, George and Quinn. Also a huge thank you to our sponsors Mark and Joe, Chris for printing bricks and Victor for printing the huge Hurtgen brick.
*All photos in this post are from the genealogy files of Rick J. Greenwald and are the property of Rick J. Greenwald.During the reign of Russia’s Catherine the Great, many Germans immigrated to the Russian steppes. They built their villages along the Volga River, spreading outward from the city of Saratov. A little over 100…
Volga Germans
The German Culture
Germans Ermics was born in Riga (Latvia) in 1985. He lived his academic years in Denmark where he studied design in Copenhagen.
The Germans are onto something. They call a bike a rad. From a linguistic standpoint, that is the most accurate name for a bike in any language. They call
The most difficult and often savage relationship in 20th century western Europe was between the French and the Germans. Twice, cataclysmic wars were fought out on their borders, successfully by the French in 1914-18 and unsuccessfully in 1940. Both wars led to military occupation--for the large block of northern France behind the German trenches in the First World War and ultimately the whole country in the Second. Richard Cobb's extraordinary book is a meditation on the whole idea of occupation. How do you survive? When do you collaborate? What moral compromises are necessary? Above all, it is a book about the way that history gives a shape and rationality to events which for those living through them are completely mysterious, and terrifying. For those trapped under German rule--frightened, confused, malnourished--what is the right course of action? French and Germans, Germans and French recreates, with a brilliant mix of wit and sympathy, the story of one of the modern era's great dramas.
Documentary about Germans who immigrated to Russia then to USA
These documentaries explore a distinctive ethnic group’s history, culture, and folkways.
Posts about WWII: Germans written by Burkhard
