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• An Excerpt from Joy, Discipline, Faith

  
  German Joys — Authority: 425
  While rummaging through some used-book stalls at the University recently, I found this book (g), whose title translates as Joy, Discipline, Faith [the motto of the Hitler Youth]: Handbook for Cultural Work in the Camp: Its a manual for leaders...
  2 days ago

• And a Word of Warning

  
  Willy or Won't He? — Authority: 129
  Elizabeth (Sisi), Empress of Austria was rumoured to have an 19" waist - it was the result of rigerous dieting and incredible tight corseting*. And because Sisi was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time other women followed her example. Hours were spent encased in whalebone and stays tightly bound by ...
  1 week ago

• For Christmas - 1856

  
  Willy or Won't He? — Authority: 129
  The Museum of German History is a wide ranging collection of artifacts tracing the history of the area we call Germany from the earliest settlements to the reunification in 1989. I guess this was sort of the Easy Bake Oven of its time. This "Küche Puppe" (kitchen doll) was the perfect gift for the little girl ...
  1 week ago

• Nazi Greasehead Imitators

  
  German Joys — Authority: 425
  Loyal reader and sometime commenter Ed Philp alerts me to the newest craze sweeping America under the rug: Landser chic: Ah, yes the hair! Your hair is a major part of your appearance. So having the correct German haircut would...
  1 week ago

• German MG 42 Machine Gun

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 144
  German MG 42 Machine Gun MG-42 Video The MG-42 or Maschinengewehr 42 The MG-42 Machine-gun 1942 MG 42 With adoption of the MG 34 machine gun the Wehrmacht had the weapon that was envisaged some 20 years before, and the MG 34 bears the ...
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• Historys Most Momentous Press Conference

  
  German Joys — Authority: 425
  Daniel Johnson has a entertaining, highly subjective tick-tock of the events leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and his own part in them: Most of the questions came from tame East German journalists and the wait for a...
  2 weeks ago

• The Value of History

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 419
  9 November 1989 Yesterday, Europe celebrated that twenty years ago, Germany was reunited. Like so many people, I have fond memories of it. I had been in Berlin a couple of months before the Wall fell, and somehow I had sensed that change was in the air. The VoPos had been friendlier than during my earlier visits, at ...
  2 weeks ago

• American Ex-Pat View Of The Fall of the Wall

  
  The Political and Financial Markets Commentator — Authority: 471
  Below is a note sent to me today by Bill Dawson, one of my regular readers in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of the German History Blog , and offered this picture, note and other resources dedicated to this anniversary of an extraordinary day 20 years ago. The fall of the Berlin Wall. As he mentions below, it is ...
  2 weeks ago

• American Ex-Pat View Of The Fall of the Wall

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  Below is a note sent to me today by Bill Dawson, one of my regular readers in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of the German History Blog , and offered this picture, note and other resources dedicated to this anniversary of an extraordinary day 20 years ago. The fall of the Berlin Wall. As he mentions below, it is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Population Shifts in the East

  
  German Joys — Authority: 425
  Clay Risen continues his series of reports from Germany (which appear in different outlets) with this guardedly optimistic take on East Germanys economy: The east isn’t lagging so much as diversifying, with some areas nearly even with the west and...
  2 weeks ago

• French Chassepot 1866 “Needle Gun”

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 144
  French Chassepot 1866 “Needle Gun” French Soldier with Chassepot 1866 Rifle French 1866 Model Chassepot “Needle Gun” The Chassepot , officially known as Fusil modèle 1866, was a bolt action military breechloading rifle, famous as the arm of the French ...
  3 weeks ago

• Adolf Salis Schwabe 1800 – 1853

  
  Sue Young Homeopathy — Authority: 135
  Adolf Salis Schwabe 1800 – 1853 was a German Jew who converted to Unitarianism , a calico printer and philanthropist, born in Berlin and an immigrant to Manchester, he was a Patron of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary in 1851, Chairman of the Manchester School of Free Traders , Salis ...
  3 weeks ago

• Radio Feature on Cultureless, Square-Headed Americans

  
  German Joys — Authority: 425
  Last night, WDR5s Doc5 series broadcase an interesting and thoroughly-researched feature (g) on anti-Americanism in Germany by Klaus Jürgen Haller. Haller focused, in particular, on the deep historical roots of the idea that Americans are a cultureless or rootless people....
  4 weeks ago

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