On this day 73 years ago the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) was adopted. Since then, it has served as the constitution of the West German federal republic and, after 1990, also of the reunited Germany. For months, the 4 mothers and 61 fathers of the Basic Law had worked on...
The first democratically elected parliament on German soil.
62 years ago today, SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Adolf Eichmann was arrested by the Israeli secret service “Mossad” in Argentina. Eichmann was born in Solingen in 1906. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP, in which, after some professional setbacks, he obtained a...
Subsequently, two notes were passed that brought the U.S. close to entering World War I as early as 1915, which, however, dragged on until 1917.
The occupation of Japan ended exactly 70 years ago today. Since then, the state has once again become an independent nation and the Pacific War has also ended in diplomatic terms.
The uprising is considered the largest Jewish resistance movement against Nazi rule.