Between 1920 and 1939 the ancient city of Danzig was an autonomous city under the trusteeship of the League of Nations. The international organization born after the First World War had the objective of preserving peace in the world and was in charge of monitoring the countries defeated after the wa
One of the most characteristic features of Prussia was always its high level of militarization. Being a small state surrounded by powerful enemies - Austria, France, Russia - Prussia always invested great efforts in protecting itself militarily. During the reign of Frederick II, the first War Academ
The city of Danzig has one of the most important Baltic ports. For centuries, its docks have seen the passage of countless goods and people who came to the city to exchange all kinds of goods. Since ancient times and thanks to the large area of forest surrounding the city, Gdansk has been a privil
After the First World War, the most important port in Poland, Gdansk, had been left outside the territory of the newly recovered Polish state. Although Poland could use the port, the city of Danzig was 90% populated by Germans and since 1933 the Nazi presence was growing, so using its facilities bec
November 8, 1939 marked the 16th anniversary of the so-called Putsch from the brewery , the failed coup carried out by the Nazi party in the city of Munich. Like every year, Hitlers supporters gathered in the same place where this attempt to seize power began with the intention of remembering the e
What is Nazism or more correctly, what is National Socialism? Today the name Nazi is given to almost anyone in a very arbitrary way and in most cases without knowing its true meaning. In our current society, saying Nazi is more of a generic insult than an adjective that politically or ideologically
The Nazi party came to power on January 30, 1933. It took less than two months for Adolf Hitler and his supporters to open the first two concentration camps of the hundreds that would follow. As a revolutionary movement with totalitarian pretensions, the Nazi party had to put an end to anyone who
When you think of the Nazi party and what they did during their 12 years in power, one of the first things that comes to mind is the Jewish holocaust. Due to documentaries and movies, it seems that the Nazi party was only trying to wipe out European Jewry and that the second world war was started so
One of the most widespread debates in recent years is the alleged flight of Hitler to Argentina. Dozens of reports by so-called professional investigators show the places where kind old Argentine women confirm the presence of the dictator after World War II. Nazi Germany and its implications for th
Many times we have little time on our trips to be able to visit everything we want. For this reason, we recommend that whenever you can, take a guided tour in the city where you are. Surely these guided tours about Nazism will not take you to all the places you want to see, but they will give you an
Much has been said about how it was possible that the Germany of 1933, where the army was reduced to 100,000 troops, without tanks or heavy artillery, where the navy was mere coastguards, the economy was very affected by the crisis of 1929 and where society it was so divided that it was a rare week
Many see the Nazi regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 solely as a political movement. Nazi Germany was not just a society ruled by a dictatorship. National Socialist ideology went much further. The Nazi movement attempted to control the minds and actions of all citizens living under their Re
The consumption of narcotic substances has been widespread among the different human societies since its origins. All kinds of drugs of different use and effect are used or have been used in a common way. The most legally used drugs today are caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine. Substances related to le
Women played a very important role in Nazi Germany. The National Socialist regime gave them a role behind the men. They were to be fertile mothers who would provide the German Reich with new soldiers with which to conquer the world. Although women in Nazi Germany did not hold relevant public positio
The Hitlerjugend o Hitler Youth were the infant army of Nazi Germany. The youth of Germany were not exempt from the attention of the Nazi party or the regime at any time. Faithful unto death, the members of the Hitler Youth were the future of the country and its showcase, but they were also its cann
In Nazi Germany, animals enjoyed a much better position than those outside the Volksgemeischaft , that is, that people who were not Aryans or were ideologically opposed to Nazism. A dog had more rights than a human being. German idealism as the basis of Nazism Since the 18th century, the Germanic t
On November 23, 1944, the great Nazi dream of creating a great European university that would attract the brightest minds of the continent came to an end. That day, US troops entered the city of Strasbourg, home of the Reich University, finishing another of Nazi Germanys megalomaniac projects. It w
The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were one of the biggest propaganda events in modern history. The Nazi German regime took advantage of this event to promote itself in the world and whitewash its public image in Western countries. Undoubtedly, the genius of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels made
By September 1944, Western Allied troops had succeeded in liberating most of France. Nazi Germany troops were in retreat. Control of the skies was assured by the RAF and the USAF. The air raids on Great Britain had ceased. It seemed that the war would not last long and above all, that the Nazi troop
The capital of Saxony was one of the most beautiful cities in Germany. Capital of the former kingdom of Saxony, the city was known as the Florence of the Elbe due to the large number of monumental buildings built during the 18th century. Despite its beauty, the city was completely flattened by a mas
Most historians would not hesitate even for a moment when asked to select the most outstanding Jagiellon. Kazimierz Jagiellończyk did not gain fame comparable to Jagiełło, but it was he who brought the Teutonic Order to its knees and extended the influence of his family to half of Europe. At the sam
It was January 28, 1918 when the Council of Peoples Commissars or Council of Peoples Commissars, known by the acronym Sovnarkom, decided to create the Red Army, which Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in a linguistic digression, named as red, speaking yesterday in Auschwitz during the events of the 75th annivers
The Barberini al Pincio obelisk, closely linked to the tomb of Antinous The place where the tomb of Antinous would be found, lover of the Emperor Hadrian tragically died in his twenties, is controversial. According to some sources, the young mans inhumation occurred in Egypt, where he died
In 1499, the news spread in Europe that the Turks, in the strength of several dozen thousand, attacked Poland, but were cut down in the trunk. In fact, the Poles could not win against the invaders because ... they did not dare to face them. On the other hand, the Turks plundered and robbed as hired,