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Franz Buchner

Lieutenant Franz Buchner (1898-1920) was a high-scoring German air ace of the First World War, achieving 40 ‘kills’ during 1917 and 1918. Born on 2 January 1898 in Leipzig Buchner enlisted with the German Army – the infantry – in 1914 while aged 16.  He was posted to service on the Eastern Front in 1915 following recuperation [...]

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The Battle of Le Cateau, 1914

The Battle of Le Cateau was essentially a rearguard action fought by the British in late August 1914, during the general Allied retreat along the Western Front in the face of sustained German successes at the four Battles of the Frontiers. On the night of 25 August the General Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps were pursued near Le Cateau [...]

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New challenge filed to stop euro rescue

Peter Gauweiler, a lawmaker from the Christian Social Union, sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s Christian Democratic Union, said the €500-billion ($630-billion) new ESM fund should not come into force unless the ECB reverses its new programme. “The ESM – insofar as it is constitutionally viable at all – should only come into force when [...]

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Hitler’s Order of the Day Calling for Invasion of Yugoslovia and Greece (April 6, 1941)

SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTHEAST FRONT: Since early this morning the German people are at war with the Belgrade government of intrigue. We shall only lay down arms when this band of ruffians has been definitely and most emphatically eliminated, and the last Briton has left this part of the European Continent, and that these misled [...]

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Hitler’s Speech in Nuremberg, Labor-Front SPEECH OF SEPTEMBER 12, 1936

HOW Germany has to work to wrest a few square kilometers from the ocean and from the swamps while others are swimming in a superfluity of land! If I had the Ural Mountains with their incalculable store of treasures in raw materials, Siberia with its vast forests, and the Ukraine with its tremendous wheat fields, [...]

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Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag, Berlin SPEECH OF MARCH 23, 1933

IN NOVEMBER, 1918, Marxist organizations seized the executive power by means of a revolution. The monarchs were dethroned, the authorities of the Reich and of the States removed from office, and thereby a breach of the Constitution was committed. The success of the revolution in a material sense protected the guilty parties from the hands [...]

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Hitler Smiled at Me

Hitler mania, bordering on hysteria, was now sweeping Germany. It was late 1934, and at my impressionable age of 6 years, my father determined that I was old enough to share in the exciting times. For days, announcements on the radio exalted an important upcoming address to the German people by our new Chancellor, Adolf [...]

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German Rower Ousted from Olympics Over Neo-Nazi Ties

German rower Nadja Drygalla left the Olympic village on Friday following reports that her boyfriend was a far-right extremist. The German Olympic Committee said Drygalla, who had already finished competing at the Games as part of the women’s rowing eight team, left of her own volition after a 90-minute conversation German officials,Reuters reported. “Miss Drygalla confirmed [...]

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Battle of the Bulge

In the summer of 1944, while Himmler’s SS men were busy rounding up supposedly disloyal Army generals, Allied troops were busy blasting their way off the Normandy beachheads and into northern France. German troops attempting to regroup for a massive counter-attack had instead suffered a crushing defeat when they were trapped in a pocket around [...]

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A New World War

Like most of the German leaders who had come before him, Adolf Hitler had a fascination with the British. For the better part of three centuries, as the Germans duly noted, people from the small island nation of Britain had managed to rule a fifth of the world via an all-powerful navy, a well-trained army, [...]

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