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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Ultimatum According to Wikipedia, Austria's "Ultimatum" (so-called) was not officially an ultimatum at all, but rather a " Demarche ". A Demarche is a formal diplomatic protest or statement of views. The Austrian Demarche, as described on Wikiped...

I may be biased. I just watched the movie, "The Devil's General", which I only later learned was but loosely based upon Udet's life. The Udet character in the movie was a drunken lout, who was rude to everybody without cause, was rough and uncouth, and yet "holier-than-thou". But...

At the outset of WWI, Russia was the world's largest land empire, spanning 12 time zones. Likewise, Britain was the world's largest ocean empire, spanning all 24 time zones. Taken together, Britain, Russia and France were the largest Empires on Earth at the time. Germany, by contrast, was but an eme...

There are clear parallels between the Pan-Slavic nationalist Black Hand in Serbia and the People's Will in Russia (founded in 1879), who perpetrated violence, terrorism, and assassination in Russia — notably the murder of Czar Alexander II (1881). Thus, Russia's incorporation of terrorism into its f...

In 1894, Russia began backing Armenian Christian separatists in Turkey to destabilize the Ottoman Empire in preparation for invasion. These Armenian terrorists, who happened to be Marxists, used assassination and murder in order to incite hatred, division, and violence between Christian Armenians an...

Benoit Douville wrote:He is a World War I Ace with 62 victories but more impressive is the fact that he didn't want to take part in the Third Reich and their racial policies, he committed suicide on November 17 1941.

Are you saying he's the "ultimate German" because he committed suicide?? I'm confused.

I watched a documentary about Britains top-secret Paddock under-ground bunker, an alternate Cabinet War Room bunker for Winston Churchill's World War II government. It was built from 1938-9, according to the dates given in the documentary. The bunker was necessary to protect the British government f...

I watched a movie about the Anastasia Romanov, who purportedly survived the 1918 massacre of her royal family at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, and who surfaced in Berlin in 1923. According to this movie, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, and brother of the Czarina Alexandra... ...visited Russ...

On 19 July , 64 CE, Rome was devastated by a fire that destroyed or damaged 10 of her 14 districts. This was the "Great Fire of Rome" that Nero blamed on the arson of Christians & Jews. precisely 1,879 years later... On 19 July , 1943, Rome was attacked by US bombers. Many buildings we...

I have read about this before, i would say that he wasn't a soviet spy beacause of the resentment against him from within, he would have been thoroughly investigated with the hope of finding something to drop him from Hitlers favour, afterall he wasn't the most popular person was he! I agree. It se...

After Holy Mother Russia defeated Napoleon in 1812, she built the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow to dedicate the victory to God and acknowledge God's Hand in Russia's salvation. But after the atheistic Communists took power in Russia, they demolished the Cathedral and cleared the site of debr...

According to the video documentary Battlefield — Air War Over Germany , Fire-Bombing was a well planned science. The bombers sent against the target would consist of four distinct stages. The first to reach the target would drop massive 4,000 and 8,000 lbs. High Explosive bombs to crater the city st...

By 1943 the Communist Partisan resistance movement in occupied Ukraine was fully integrated into the Red Army. Liason officers would help coordinate Partisan operations to strategically assist the Soviet soldiers. For example, Partisans destroyed numerous rail-lines and derailed over 1000 trainloads...

this "common perception" is also apparent, for what it's worth, in the 1967 movie "Battle of Britain"... The last time I looked, that was called Drama .......and screenwriters DO tend to put it BACK in to get bums on seats... Why is it, then, that every single DVD I've watched o...

I have read online that when Hitler (27 July '41) ordered Guderian to turn away from Moscow and head to Kiev, Guderian spent a full week embroiling himself in combat so as to keep moving towards Moscow... eventually, Hitler promoted him, cadjoled him into obeying orders, and Guderian linked up with ...