Mémoires de Guerre

C'est un Allemand qui a traversé le XXe siècle, témoin de ce que l'Allemagne y a fait de pire et acteur de son rachat et de son relèvement sans jamais être un héros idéal. Willy Brandt est resté un homme de failles et de faiblesses, accusé d'indignité...

« Les pages qui suivent dessinent le portrait d'un homme, avec ses qualités et ses défauts. Avec ses rencontres, ses compagnes, ses enfants, ses amis, sa famille. Ses interrogations, ses peurs, ses regrets mais aussi ses certitudes, ses engagements, son...

Generalleutnant Martin Unrein (1 January 1901 – 22 January 1972) was a general officer of the German Army during the Second World War. He joined the German Army in the final stages of the First World War, and was posted to the 71st Infantry Regiment....

Award-winning academic MacMillan (International History/Oxford Univ.; Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History, 2009, etc.) takes on the origins of World War I. Rather than allocating blame for the war or asking why it came about, the author asks...

Zalman Shazar, né le 24 novembre 1889 à Mir en Biélorussie et mort le 5 octobre 1974 à Jérusalem, est un écrivain, poète et journaliste israélien, dont la vie a surtout été marquée par sa présidence à la tête de l'État d'Israël. Il reçoit une éducation...

Walter Legge (né le 1er juin 1906 à Londres et décédé le 22 mars 1979 à Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat) fut un producteur musical britannique employé par EMI. En 1945, il fonda le London Philharmonia Orchestra. On lui doit la carrière de Herbert von Karajan ,...

Ludwig Abel est un violoniste, chef d'orchestre et compositeur allemand, né à Eckartsberga le 14 janvier 1834 et mort dans le quartier de Pasing à Munich le 13 août 1895. Né en Saxe-Anhalt, il est l'élève de Ferdinand David. Il devient membre de l'Orchestre...

Felix A. Sommerfeld (May 28, 1879 – after 1930) was a German secret service agent in Mexico and the United States between 1908 and 1919. He was chief of the Mexican Secret Service under President Francisco I. Madero, worked as a diplomat and arms buyer...

Frederick Taylor (né le 28 décembre 1947 à Aylesbury en Angleterre) est un historien britannique notamment connu pour son livre Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 sorti en 2004 et relatant la période du bombardement de Dresde.

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation. The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single...

In autumn 1944, German troops and police entered Warsaw to deport its inhabitants. Though the war was now all but lost, the demolition of Warsaw remained part of the Nazi racial plan of 'cleansing' central Europe for future German settlement. In the first...

L'exode de mai-juin 1940 est la face la plus visible de la débâcle. Car si les combats, les intrigues politiques et, plus tard, les appels de Pétain et de De Gaulle ne touchent qu'une minorité, le sort des huit millions de Français fuyant l'avancée allemande...

Lothar William Mordian Freiherr von Bischoffshausen (20 February 1897 – 18 February 1970) was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron...

Karl Britzelmayr (26 May 1894 – 9 March 1988) was a highly decorated Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme...

Werner Henning-Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz-Levetzow (7 June 1894 – 20 August 1964) was a highly decorated Oberst der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of...

Fritz Breithaupt (5 September 1892 – 25 December 1944) was a Fregattenkapitän of the Reserves with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. Recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub)....

Albert Brendel (8 December 1893 – 14 April 1943) was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme...

Dr.-Ing. Karl-Friedrich Wilhelm Anton August Brill (18 July 1898 – 22 October 1943) was a Fregattenkapitän of the Reserves with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and member of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt in the aftermaths of World War I. He is also...

Rudolf Brehmer (15 January 1887 – 3 November 1967) was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme...

Emil Bock (born May 19, 1895 in Barmen, died December 6, 1959 in Stuttgart) was a German anthroposophist, author, theologian and one of the founders of The Christian Community. In 1914 he began a study of languages at the University of Bonn. However,...

Curt Bräuer (1889–1969) was a German career diplomat. Born in Breslau, in what is modern-day Poland, Bräuer entered service in the German foreign ministry in 1920. From 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the German Democratic Party. On 1 August 1935 he joined...

Hermann Beckh (né le 4 mai 1875 à Nuremberg en Allemagne - mort le 1er mars 1937 à Stuttgart) est un orientaliste et un membre de la Société anthroposophique allemande. Il est l'un des pionniers de la tibétologie allemande. Hermann Beckh naquit à Nuremberg,...

Adolf Bauser (11 December 1880 in Entringen, Württemberg – 16 November 1948 in Stuttgart) was a German teacher, member of the Reichstag for the Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation and delegate for the Christian Democratic Union in the Landtag of...

Dr. med. dent. Walter Lange (14 July 1898 – 30 October 1982) was a highly decorated Oberst of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knight's Cross of the...

Julius Bruck (October 6, 1840 – April 20, 1902) was a German dentist who was a native of Breslau. He studied dentistry and medicine at the Universities of Breslau, Berlin, Bonn and Paris; obtaining a degree in dentistry from Berlin in 1858. Afterwards...

Sigurt-Horstmar Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay (31 December 1900 – 8 October 1953) was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...

Gerd-Paul Valerian Georg Heinrich von Below (30 November 1892 – 8 December 1953) was a highly decorated Generalmajor der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross...

Hans von Ahlfen (20 February 1897 – 11 September 1966) was a General in the German army in World War II. He was the commandant of 'Fortress Breslau' at the beginning of the siege of the city in 1945 when it was surrounded by Soviet forces and was later...

Dr. med. dent. Rudolf Kolbeck (24 March 1889 – 12 September 1965) was an Oberst der Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II, and one of only 882 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Rudlof Kolbeck The Knight's Cross...

En juillet 1953, au moment de l'annonce officielle de la chute de Lavrenti Beria, alors le tout puissant ministre de l'Intérieur de l'URSS, certains observateurs occidentaux sentirent qu'il y avait un "mystère Beria". Mais nul ne se douta à l'époque des...

La connaissance de l’univers du Goulag peut désormais prendre appui sur le document unique que constitue un album original comprenant la reproduction de dessins effectués de 1949 à 1989 par l’ancien milicien et gardien de prison Dantsig Baldaev, album...

Prince des ténèbres ? A maints égards, Richard Nixon est entré dans l'Histoire comme une figure maléfique. Seul président américain à avoir jamais été contraint à la démission, son nom reste attaché au scandale du Watergate. Mais sur toute son oeuvre...

Louisette Hautecoeur est une monteuse française, active de 1934 à 1976. Elle est également connue sous les noms de Louisette Hautecoeur-Taverna, Louisette Taverna-Hautecoeur ou Louisette Taverna. Filmographie 1934 : Le Dernier Milliardaire de René Clair...

Margherita Sarfatti first met Benito Mussolini in 1911 at the socialist daily Avanti! In what became a turbulent love affair she emerged as an important writer, art critic, and major adviser to the founder of the Fascist party. Even though she converted...

Fifty years ago on November 22, 1963, in Dallas's Dealey Plaza, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated while traveling in a motorcade with his wife, Jacqueline. LIFE magazine, the weekly pictorial chronicle...

John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago—yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato—himself...

A longtime congressional correspondent for Market News International assesses the unique senatorial career of John F. Kennedy. JFK’s eight-year Senate tenure coincided exactly with the popular Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency and roughly with Lyndon...

Vittoria Aganoor (née le 26 mai 1855 à Padoue, Vénétie - morte le 9 avril 1910 à Pérouse, Ombrie) était une poétesse italienne de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle. La famille de Vittoria Aganoor était une noble famille arménienne. Elle était la...

Robert-Jules Garnier (parfois crédité Robert Jules Garnier, R. Jules Garnier ou Garnier) est un chef décorateur français, né Jules Robert Garnier le 29 avril 1883 à Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine), mort le 15 avril 1958 à Condeau (Orne). Robert-Jules Garnier...

Karl Gustav Vollmöller, (7 mai 1878 - 18 octobre 1948) était un dramaturge et scénariste allemand. Il est connu pour deux ouvrages, le scénario du célèbre film allemand 1930 Der Engel Blaue (L'Ange bleu), qui a fait une étoile de Marlène Dietrich, et...