Like other countries, even in Germany there is no unitary manifestation or in any case the clear domination of a given stylistic trend. Indeed, very different trends and directions coexist, on the one hand reflecting the great international diversification, on the other hand highlighting the characteristic of European traditions, whose […]

But the renaissance of classical antiquity, which manifested itself under the Ottos, was short-lived and the taste for Latin writers quickly passed. Times are pressing: the great historical events of a profoundly eventful era, full of the tragic repercussions of the immense conflict between the Church and the Empire, the […]

A completely different picture offers us the century. X. Culture, neglected for a few decades during the combative reign of Henry I, flourished again at the court of the Ottoni, to which, as already at that of Aachen, the scholars of every country, Stefano da Novara, Gunzone da Pavia, meet. […]

But for the work of religious propaganda, to which the clergy and the monk were intended, in this age and the next, in whose hands were the studies and the letters alone, the vigilant concern was constant to suffocate and destroy what in tradition popular remembered the times and glories […]

On the primitive poetry of the Germans in the times preceding the period of their documented literature, Latin and Greek historians inform us, narrating songs that were handed down orally from generation to generation, which celebrated the gods or heroes and the origin of their lineages. Tacitus recounts that the […]

According to prozipcodes, the Länder of the North and East, culturally predominantly Protestant, voted by a majority for the parties of the left, while those of the so-called sun belt Central-Southern Germans voted Christian Democrat. Another fact that will certainly have significant consequences in the political future not only of Bavaria but […]

Vote analysis The results describe this unexpected stalemate very well and confirm an analyst’s observation that “the voter voted with a shaking hand”: CDU / CSU 35.2% (in 2002 38.5%), SPD 34, 5% (38.5%), Verdi 8.1% (8.6%), FDP 9.8% (7.4%), Linkspartei-PDS 8.7% (in 2002 PDS alone 4%). Participation in the […]

In any case, due to one of those paradoxes that history enjoys constellating its progress, those who previously had been Schröder’s opponents, both on the right and on the left, will be forced to make an incredible metamorphosis to implement the program that had been Schröder’s. The Christian Democrats will […]

Compromise policy According to paradisdachat, the novelty is destined to make history: the Germans, for the first time since 1949, since after the end of the Third Reich political democracy returned to govern the fate of their country, went to bed after voting without knowing ‘which there would have been […]

While Hitler repeatedly declared that Germany had no territorial claims with France, propaganda for the restitution of colonies intensified towards England. Hitler, however, was careful not to repeat the mistake of William II, starting a naval race with England. Von Ribbentrop was in charge of the colonial question, appointed ambassador […]

The unification action of the Protestant Churches led by the bishop of the Reich Müller and his juridical administrator Jäger led to a schism: on January 3, 1934, a first free synod of confessional groups met in Barmen. The bishop responded by accusing the rebellious pastors of propaganda against the […]

Alongside the political crises, an economic-financial crisis had also occurred, or rather accentuated, as a consequence of the lack of raw materials and import currencies. The appointment, on August 2, 1934, of the president of the Reichsbank Schacht as Minister of the Economy marked the beginning of a severe policy […]

To calm the apprehensions aroused by his abrupt move, Hitler insisted in various declarations on the will for peace of the new Germany and began negotiations for a non-aggression pact with Poland, while denying any intention of revenge: on this point the electoral campaign in grand style, directed by the […]

The third Reich, according to Hitler’s conception, must be a centralized national community, founded on the principles of authority and responsibility upwards, in which the antagonisms of caste and class and the old German particularism must disappear. To this end, in addition to placing the lieutenants of the Reich in […]

At varying distances between them they were located behind the land defense, not far from it in general more than half a km. or 1 km., the forts: we recall among the best known and most fully explored, those of Saalburg, Nidda-Heddernheim, Niederbieder, Zugmantel, etc. The army of Germany was […]

The hypothesis is supported both by the passage of the Ancirano monument, unfortunately incomplete, in which the emperor recalls having pacified the whole West from Gades to ostium Albis, and even more from the fact that, as for Gaul, also for Germany Drusus had, between 12 and 9 a. C., consecrated […]

Tiberius returned in 4 d. C., the work that he had left interrupted was resumed: in the winter of 4 to 5 the Roman army wintered for the first time in the Germanic territory, where until now it had usually only ventured in the summer season; in the 5th and […]

The conquest of Gaul had brought the Romans to the Rhine: but since this did not mark any clear limits of division between the peoples, it was inevitable that sooner or later the work that Caesar had believed he could stop, at least for the moment, on the banks of […]

According to calculatorinc, the great majority of the German people, together with the rest of the world, gave a great sigh of relief in the confidence that peace had once again been saved; Hitler, on the other hand, took Munich as a confirmation of his opinion that the Western powers […]

It was hidden from the mass of the people that these apparent successes in foreign policy buried the world’s confidence in Germany’s peaceful sentiments and in its ability to deliver on pacts, creating an atmosphere of fear, truly, at first, not justified by the real degree. of power of Germany, […]

Through the so-called conquest of power (January 30, 1933) and the law for full powers of March 23, 1933, Hitler’s dictatorship was indeed founded, but it still needed some time to eliminate the remnants of democracy and to liquidate the allies of yesteryear, the German-nationals and the “steel helmets” and […]