By Wolfgang Pfitzner ∙ May 1, 2003
Battleship Bismarck At its time, the German Battleship Bismarck was the finest, most feared warship the world had ever seen. It was a super weapon meant to help cut off the British supply lines in the Atlantic. Hence, when the Bismarck went on its first mission on May 19, 1941, the British launched the biggest…
By Wolfgang Pfitzner ∙ February 1, 2003
On August 4, 1964, network television was interrupted at 11:36 p.m. EDT so President Lyndon B. Johnson could tell the nation that the U.S. warships USS Maddox and its sister ship USS C. Turner Joy had been attacked in a place called the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese PT boats. Already two days earlier,…
By Wolfgang Pfitzner ∙ February 1, 2003
A lot is known about the hunger-holocaust in the Ukraine which was triggered by Stalin in the early thirties, to which about 7 million people fell victim. It is much less known that Britain enforced a similar policy in Ireland, followed for centuries in order to break the will to independence of the Irish. Almost…
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