Tag: Cold War
Berlin commemorates the 75th anniversary of the start of the airlift
Pictures Status: 06/24/2023 12:15 p.m On June 26, 1948, the largest air supply operation in history began. The Soviet military administration had cut road and rail links between Berlin and…
The experiment: three days in the nuclear bunker – Munich
If the bombs had fallen then, there would not have been much left to survive: a little dry food, a few canisters of water and 0.8 square meters per person…
Bavaria: The border museum in “Little Berlin” is expanding – Bavaria
The Border Museum Mödlareuth on the former inner-German border between Thuringia and Bavaria is getting an extension. The renewal and expansion cost a total of 22 million euros, as the…
Easter Marches: The Dilemma of the Peace Movement – Politics
The focus of the Easter marches in more than a hundred German cities this year is again the Russian invasion, which continues to pose many questions for the peace movement.…
Turn of the year: 2023 will also be characterized by uncertainty
A plague that paralyzes life? A president invading his neighboring country? 20 degrees on New Year’s Eve? How people react when nothing but things happen that they thought wouldn’t happen.…
Exhibition “Roads not Taken” in the German Historical Museum Berlin – Culture
Of Gustav Seibt The Federal President’s speech had already been written. “My dear German compatriots on both sides of the demarcation line, soldiers of the Bundeswehr. Peace is in extreme…
How Ukraine should be compensated – Economy
comment by Markus Zydra, Frankfurt Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. The EU Commission would also like to tap into the foreign assets of the Russian central bank.…
“Time of my life”: The memoirs of Theo Sommer – media
For years he had sweaty hands while writing, Theo Sommer claims in his memoirs, although his boss Marion Gräfin Dönhoff sent him an enthusiastic telegram from Sylt on his first…
Xi, Biden and the World Order: A Period of Détente – Politics
The summit week in Asia ends and the confrontation between China and the USA falls off. Rising nations like India or Indonesia are bursting with self-confidence. And Russia is increasingly…
Korean conflict and rearmament: fighting fire with fire – Politics
It’s one of those rocket days in Seoul again. South Korea’s military chief of staff has reported that North Korea appears to have fired an ICBM east into the Pacific,…