Architecture in Germany has been greatly influenced by the styles in architecture and art of European countries. These styles were born and developed during ancient period of Charlemagne’s Empire to the modern history after the World War II. The most ancient architectural designs appeared since 800 AD when German architecture was featured by the … [Read more...]
The Fall of the Wall and Reunification
In the middle of the 1980s the Cold War started to melt, especially due to the changes in the Soviet government. Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and the only President of the USSR, started a new political wave called Perestroika, and made a friendly step towards the West acknowledging the dependence of the Soviet Union on the high technologies and … [Read more...]
Germany Under Hitler and the Nazi
Nationalism is an infantile idea. It is a measles of mankind. --Albert Einstein The stars must have been in a special position above the Austrian town Braunau on April 20, 1889, when Adolf Hitler was born. Neither his father Alois Schickelgruber Hitler whom Adolf hated, nor his mother Klara Poelzl whom he, to the contrary, adored, could foresee … [Read more...]
Gerhard Schroeder: “I’m a climber”
On September 27, 1998, Gerhard Schroeder, a "bluff and combative" legislator from Lower Saxony, was chosen a new chancellor of Germany. Mass media consider him to be a "breath of fresh air" after 16 years of Helmut Kohl's governing. This was a big news for the whole political world. The event hit the headlines of the leading newspapers and … [Read more...]
Rudolf Diesel, His Invention and Mysterious Death
Circumstances of Rudolf Diesel’s death are considered to be a suspicious enigma for us even now. Dr. Rudolf Diesel boarded “SS Dresden”, a cross-channel ferry, at Antwerp in September 1913. He was going to see the newest diesel engine factory of London. The famous engineer was invited as a guest of honor to the opening of that factory. He … [Read more...]
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