Bettina von ribbentrop in color
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Murder of the Austrian Archduke. Start of the First World War
- The assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in was the immediate cause of the First World War. For four years, the great European powers fought a gruesome battle.
June 28, Sarajevo
Murder of the Austrian Archduke: Start of the First World War
Europe
Maps of the First World War
Aug. 2, Europe
War enthusiasm
April 22, Ypres
The German army uses poison gas against French troops
Aug. 6, Germany
Otto Frank in the First World War
July 1, France
Hitler as a soldier in the First World War
Dec. 1, Germany
Fritz Pfeffer in military service
April 6, Washington
The United States declare war on Germany
Oct. 5, Ypres
Ruins after the Battle of Passchendaele
Nov. 7, Petrograd (Saint Petersburg)
The Russian Revolution: Armistice with Germany
Germany loses the war. Protests against the Treaty of Versailles
- The First World War ended in Germany and A
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Rudolf Hess
German Nazi politician (–)
This article is about the Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler. For the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, see Rudolf Höss. For the Californian artist, see Rudolf Hess (artist).
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April &#;– 17 August ) was a German politician, convicted war criminal and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer (Stellvertreter des Führers) to Adolf Hitler in , Hess held that position until , when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace. He was still serving his life sentence at the time of his suicide in
Hess enlisted as an infantryman in the Imperial German Army at the outbreak of World War I. He was wounded several times during the war and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd Class, in Shortly before the war ended, Hess enrolled to tr
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Introduction: National Socialist Archaeology in Europe and Its Legacies
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Introduction: Engaging with National Socialist Archaeology
In her essay FascinatingFascism, Susan Sontag famously stated that National Socialism not only stands for brutishness and terror, but also for a range of ideals with ‘an appealing style’ that fascinated people then and continues to do so now (Sontag, , pp. 9–10). The short National Socialist propaganda movie Altgermanische Bauernkultur [Old-Germanic Farmers Culture], dating from and directed by Walter Ruttmann (–), serves as a prime example of Sontag’s argument. The film shows the young, idealistic student Klaus, who attends a lecture by Dr. Sandmann on German prehistory, in which the low cultural development of the Germanic people is emphasised. The name ‘Dr. Sandmann’ is an ironic reference to the mythical character who puts people to sleep by sprinkling sand on their eyes. Klaus resists, passionately protesting against what he co