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September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German...
Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
Cologne Cathedral: a landmark, a World Heritage Site, a building of superlatives - and not just because it took over 600 years to complete. It has...
Cologne Cathedra: The French Cathedral on the Rhine
On operated by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck the German Empire is finally founded in 1871 on the floors of Versailles castle, ancestral...
Kaiserspiel
In 1938 an airfield was built at the northeastern-most end of America, the descent went slowly but incessantly through the Cold War. This is the...
Gander International: The Airport in the Middle of Nowhere
Cuba is currently not the focus of global attention; there are other crisis hotspots. However, the country is in deep trouble. Even the most basic...
Markus Lanz in Cuba
They say it's over 2000 years old, and more than 4,000 miles long. But even today nobody really knows for sure. The Great Wall of China is one of the...
Trekking the Great Wall
Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the...
Namibia: The Story of a German Colony
Karl Marx - Der deutsche Prophet
Transports du futur : A la conquête de la vitesse
The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years of bloody war, the Greek coalition decides to...
The Mystery of the Trojan Horse
Der Vietnamkrieg - Gesichter einer Tragödie
On June 26, 1813, Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens von Metternich went to meet Napoleon Bonaparte at his headquarters in Dresden, in the Kingdom of...
Napoleon vs. Metternich: The Beginning of the End
Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of his discoveries is a drama of Shakespearian...
Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens
Libye, l’héritage de Kadhafi
Oceanographers have been gripped by a new spirit of discovery and have undertaken the biggest population census of ocean species ever conducted - a...
National Geographic: Dawn of the Oceans
Ils ont changé le monde - Les Arabes
The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire;...
The Bloody Border
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into...
Friedrich Engels - Der Unterschätzte
Ägypten: Geburt einer Großmacht
Grönland - Wilde Natur