On April 1, 1933, a week after Adolf Hitler became dictator of Germany, he ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores. But the boycott was mostly ignored by German shoppers and was called off after three days. However, the unsuccessful boycott was followed by a rapid series of laws which robbed the… Read more »
Faced with an effective British blockade, fierce resistance from the British and French Armies, the entrance of the United States Army, political unrest and starvation at home, an economy in ruins, mutiny in the navy, and mounting defeats on the battlefield, the German Generals requested armistice negotiations with the Allies in November of 1918. Under… Read more »
The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 1,100-man unit was given a unique mission within the U.S Army: to impersonate other U.S. Army units to deceive the enemy. From a few weeks after D-Day, when they landed in France, until the… Read more »
Baptized a Catholic, Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was born on April 20, 1889, in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn, located approximately 65 miles east of Munich and nearly 30 miles north of Salzburg. His father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was a mid-level customs official. Born out of wedlock to Maria Anna Schickelgruber in 1837,… Read more »
In 1939, there were some 140.000 Dutch Jews living in the Netherlands, among them some 25.000 German-Jewish refugees who had fled Germany in the 1930s (other sources claim that some 34.000 Jewish refugees entered the Netherlands between 1933 and 1940, mostly from Germany and Austria), like the Anne Frank family, from Frankfurt am Main. The… Read more »