Entries from May 2007

May 30, 2007

Hitler`s Wolfsschanze

“Wolfsshanze”/ “Wolf`s hole” was the place from where Hitler sent to death millions of people. Why “Wolf`s hole”? Probably because Hitler`s adolescence nick name was Wolf. Here we can see a map of this place:

“Ieeja” (left corner) is entrance. In building No. 1 was SS officers`barracks, now a crappy hotel. No. 2 is Hitler`s bunker. No. 6 [...]

May 25, 2007

Run into Peter the Great

Almost true :) Visited Cesis castle museum and found this:

Next to him is his law post (laws written between 1700 and 1720, too bad I don`t remember exact year).
When in St. Peterborough tourists can by such order:

“Peter I – founder of the city. St. Peterborough 1703″ (translated from Russian)
Relatives brought this to me last summer. And of course it`s not [...]

May 19, 2007

Why to be interested in historical personalities?

I have always liked history. When younger my favourite subjects were ancient states: Egypt, Greece, Roman Empire. In secondary school I wrote some essays on subject ” World War II in my country”. But as I grew older I got more and more interested in people: their life, their thoughts, culture and anthropology. Reading books [...]

May 9, 2007

Mao: The Unknown Story

 
I haven`t got this book yet, but it seems worth buying. Amazon.com review tells the following:
Chang and Halliday are determined to shatter the “myth” of Mao, and they succeed with the force, not just of moral outrage, but of facts. The result is a book, more indictment than portrait, that paints Mao as a brutal [...]

May 6, 2007

H-list

According to conversation in Victoria`s cross? about History blogs and history bloggers` community, where I suggested doing similar thing as travel bloggers do, here are the rules and my H-list. First H-list ever and hope to go round the blogosphere and grow bigger and bigger. 
H-list contains your favourite history blogs. It`s a way of using links to boost smaller blogs and [...]

May 6, 2007

How Hitler got his famous moustache?

Now the answer is clear. Article in The Sunday Telegraph [found via Great War Fiction blog] tells:

A previously unpublished essay by a writer who served alongside Hitler in the First World War trenches reveals that the future Führer was only obeying orders when he shaped his moustache into its tightly-clipped style. He was instructed to [...]

May 3, 2007

Who paid Lenin?

I was intrigued by title of 2004 year documentary “Who paid Lenin?” I thought why? for what? I found out things I never heard about.
Two main persons in documentary: Russian revolutionary Lenin and a man called Alexander Parvus (born as Israel Lazarevich Gelfand).
 
Lenin and Parvus (Wikipedia.com)
At Wikipedia`s article about Lenin, Parvus and facts shown in [...]