25 years (almost to the day) after of Adolf Hitlers suicide – his, and the ashes of some of his compatriots – were unceremoniously dumped into the river Ehle outside of Magedburg. His corpse, as well ...

The origins of the Hotel Fürstenhof can be traced back to 1854, when the Butcher Samuel Liebetrau built himself a summer home in the eastern part of Eisenach in Thuringia. For reasons not entirely ...

Julius Fučík was born on the 23rd of February 1903 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He came from a working class family and was named after his famous uncle, the composer Julius Fučík (known for his ...

Every good memorial needs a back story, and the Lions story begins in 1848 with the first Schleswig war. Through a typically complex set of treaties and inheritances, the Duchies of Schleswig, ...

The name Elstal might ring a bell for some – mainly due to it being the home of the (not so) abandoned 1936 Olympic Village. But the small village actually has a deeper, specifically military, history ...

Die Geschichte von Florsdorf zusammengefasst Das Dorf Żarska Wieś (deutsch: Florsdorf, früher auch Florensdorf oder Floriansdorf) liegt in der Woiwodschaft Niederschlesien im Landkreis Zgorzelec, ...

While most can and will consider German reunification a “success story”, the merger of the two German states also meant the loss of identity, purpose, and direction for many. There are plenty of ...

Urban Exploring or Urban Exploration (often shortened as UE or urbex) is the exploration of manmade structures, usually abandoned ruins or hidden components of the manmade environment. Ever since we ...

Few places in and around Berlin highlight the complex german history layer cake like the Bogensee. Situated a good 15 kilometers north of Berlin, the Bogensee served as the scenic backdrop for Joseph ...

Like the majority of Luftwaffe Airbases, the Flugplatz Werneuchen can be considered a relatively “new” addition. The Reichsluftfahrtministerium, as part of its rearmament project, acquired a large ...

Few monuments encapsulate the image of Germany (and Berlin) as much as the Brandenburg Gate. Of all the National Monuments in Germany, the neoclassical structure is by far the most recognisable (i’m ...

We’ve already written an introduction about the development of Wünsdorf into the Military Headquarters of the Reichsheer in 1914 as well as its transformation into the headquarters of the ...