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myhistorynotes 908 days ago
“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 [...]myhistorynotes 912 days ago
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 [...]myhistorynotes 918 days ago
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 [...]myhistorynotes 928 days ago
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 [...]myhistorynotes 931 days ago
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 [...]
