Hermann Esser was a very early member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). A journalist, Esser was the editor of the Nazi paper, Völkischer Beobachter, and a Nazi member of the Reichstag. In the early history of the party, he was a de facto deputy of Adolf Hitler Esser was born 29 July 1900 in Röhrmoos, Kingdom of Bavaria. The son of a civil servant, he was educated… Read more »
The two cakes with Adolf Hitler portraits: In 1922 married Hermann Esser , a party member of the first hour. Adolf Hitler had promised his shareholder at the small wedding party, but he did not want to speak: “I need crowds when I speak,” he explained. “In a small circle I just do not find the… Read more »
In January 1944, Cairo East section of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) hatched a daring plot to kidnap the commander of the 22nd Infantry Division based on Crete, General-Leutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Muller. Müller was executed for war crimes, age 49, on 20-05-1947. The plot was led by Major Patrick Leigh Fermor, along with his second-in-command,… Read more »
If travelers from the Federal Republic of Germany in the Soviet Union want to visit German soldiers cemeteries from the time of World War II or individual graves of fallen soldiers of the former German Wehrmacht, they usually have little luck. The mass of German cemeteries and individual graves was leveled long ago. Their traces… Read more »
On June 6, 1944, the carefully planned invasion of the Allies, carried out with superior forces on men and material, began under the command of the American General Dwight Delano Eisenhower in the Normandy, which initiated the German defeat in the West and thus – as did Stalingrad in the East – The decisive turn… Read more »