According to a representative survey, beer is a German's favorite drink. 79% of German adults drink beer regularly. 67% of German women and 91% of German men drink beer at least once a month. Germany has over 1,200 breweries, which produce the largest variety of beer styles in the world. The Germans are known to the whole world as a true … [Read more...]
Bombings and air-raids during WWII
By Dorothea von Schwanenfluegel Lawson I would like to share with you one more episode of my life. Let's fast-forward to Berlin. The year is 1944. Bombings had become the order of the day & so had air raids. In April, our suburb was under attack & bombs were detonating everywhere with earsplitting blasts as if all the houses were going to … [Read more...]
“Aryanization” of Germany in 1933 and mass book burning
By Dorothea von Schwanenfluegel Lawson Here are some behind-the-scene personal experiences from the 1930's that might be of interest. In 1933, our Nazi government appealed to us for a nationwide "non-Aryan" boycott. I experienced the proposed boycott the hard way. One day I went to the local haberdashery I had been frequenting for years, a … [Read more...]
World War Memories
Life in Germany before and after the Versailles Treaty, and Hitler's rise to power By Dorothea von Schwanenfluegel Lawson It is a pleasure to share a few thoughts with the Internet world. You must understand, all this technology is new to me, & frankly at my age, I'm not sure I can keep up with it! You see, I may be a few years older than you, … [Read more...]
Transportation Future
Transportation Means of the Future ... comes from the past! Not far south of Berlin one can see a fantastic-movie picture: a giant building is standing and sparkling in the sun. This is a hangar where CargoLifter AG produces dirigibles, majestic airships that came into life as Zeppelins, named after their inventor, Graf Ferdinand von … [Read more...]
The Death of the Hindenburg
Hindenburg was a masterpiece of zeppelin design. Equipped with four 1200 hp Mercedes Benz engines, having 245 m in length, about 41 m in diameter and almost 212000 cubic meters of gas volume, she still holds the record of the largest airship ever built and flying. She can be truly called the Titanic of the aircraft. Although the Hindenburg is most … [Read more...]
Zeppelins the Bombers
Zeppelins became the frightful reality of WWI. The huge ships carried and dropped the bombs on France and Britain, and there was no defense against the midnight raids of the monsters. The cruising speed of the zeppelins was comparable to the airplanes of the enemies, and the great area allowed lots of guns bristling out of an airship, so it was not … [Read more...]
Zeppelin Airships
On July 2, 1900, the first Zeppelin airship took its maiden flight over the Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen. Its creator, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, spent two years and all his resources to build the giant - 125 m in length and about 12 m in diameter - cigar-shaped airship equipped with two 14.7 hp Daimler engines. During the construction … [Read more...]
Sex Online: Germans Lead
Germans are leaders among the European nations in surfing erotic websites Who would ever think... One-third of all German Internet users click regularly on sex and erotic pages. According to the investigation of Eschborn Research Institute NetValue, the exact number of cybersex fans in Germany is 33.4% which makes the nation a European leader. … [Read more...]
German Nationality Law
On January 1, 2000 a new nationality law came into force in Germany. This law will help foreigners living in Germany to become German citizens. According to the new law, "At the heart of the reform is the supplementing of the traditional principle of descent (jus sanguinis) by the acquisition of nationality by birth. For children born in Germany of … [Read more...]
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