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The Nazi Past of Germany’s Richest Companies 15:50 15.12.2022

The Nazi Past of Germany’s Richest Companies

During World War I, head of a large textile manufacturing business Günther Quandt made millions supplying the German army with uniforms. He used that fortune after the war to acquire one of the world’s largest battery manufacturers at the time, the Accumulatorenfabrik AG (AFA), to cater to the growing demand …
OPERATION VALKYRIE: THE FAILED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE HITLER 15:50 15.12.2022

OPERATION VALKYRIE: THE FAILED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE HITLER

July 20, 1944 is remembered as the day when an unsuccessful assassination attempt was made on the life of Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler. Notably, within the Reich itself, the codename of the operation – 'Valkyrie' – was used to refer to a plan meant to protect Germany's administrative and …
HOW WAS THE DECISION TAKEN TO SEND SOVIET TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN? 12:26 08.12.2022

HOW WAS THE DECISION TAKEN TO SEND SOVIET TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN?

What was the reason behind the USSR’s longest war? To find it, you’ll have to look long before the Soviet troops were sent to the country. In 1973, Afghanistan’s last king Mohammad Zahir Shah was deposed. His cousin, prince Daoud Khan seized the power and declared the Kingdom of Afghanistan …
COBRAS FUMANTES, OR SMOKING SNAKES, FIGHTING NAZIS 12:25 08.12.2022

COBRAS FUMANTES, OR SMOKING SNAKES, FIGHTING NAZIS

“It’s more likely for a snake to smoke a pipe than for the Brazilian Expeditionary Force to go to the front and fight,” Brazilians used to joke. But it so happened that the military division of Brazil’s Armed Forces did fight on the battlefields of World War II.As if defying …
THE ‘DEFEAT PARADE’ OF GERMAN POWS IN MOSCOW 12:24 08.12.2022

THE ‘DEFEAT PARADE’ OF GERMAN POWS IN MOSCOW

They had planned a victory march on this street leading to the Kremlin.Photo: The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, collection 17, registry 125, case 263, p. 47Almost 58,000 German prisoners of war were paraded in the capital city of the USSR on July 17, 1944.Back in the fall of …
HOW UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS SERVED THE THIRD REICH 12:20 08.12.2022

HOW UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS SERVED THE THIRD REICH

Once the Great Patriotic War was over, the USSR’s security services got to process a large scope of Nazi intelligence documents and question many German intelligence operatives, thus getting a complete picture of what the OUN-M and OUN-B factions of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-UPA, banned in Russia) had …
It's raining on Santiago 10:15 29.11.2022

It's raining on Santiago

The famous line which is said to have signaled the start of the military coup in Chile's capital on September 11, 1973, is hardly ever mentioned in any Western sources – however, it is quite popular among historians in the post-Soviet states. The reason is simple: it is the title …
THEY WERE THE FIRST TO GO INTO BATTLE ON JUNE 22, 1941… 11:10 28.11.2022

THEY WERE THE FIRST TO GO INTO BATTLE ON JUNE 22, 1941…

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union at 4 am without a formal declaration of war. It was not just any Sunday – it was All Russian Saints’ Day celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church. It was also the day the Great Patriotic War began.Units of the …
THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE – RULES OF THE GAME FOR A POST-WAR PEACE 11:08 28.11.2022

THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE – RULES OF THE GAME FOR A POST-WAR PEACE

On July 17, 1945, the city of Potsdam, a historical site just outside of Berlin, hosted the last 'Big Three' conference that brought together the heads of the three largest powers of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, i.e. the USSR, the USA and the UK: Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill, …
The First Ever Non-stop Flight Across The North Pole: 85th Anniversary Of Chkalov’s Transpolar Mission 12:32 25.11.2022

The First Ever Non-stop Flight Across The North Pole: 85th Anniversary Of Chkalov’s Transpolar Mission

On June 18, 1937, pilot Valery Chkalov, co-pilot Georgy Baydukov and flight navigator Alexander Belyakov went on an extraordinary mission. They took off in a Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft from the Shchyolkovo airfield near Moscow (today, this airbase is called Chkalovsky after the legendary pilot) and headed towards the North Pole. …
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