Stephen R A'Barrow
Putin’s Fake History Party Cancelled?
Russia’s President Putin is taking an ever more revisionist view of Russia’s pivotal role in the outbreak of World War II.
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Jan 24, 2020
- 13 min
President Kaczynski and an illusory Euro Billions Jackpot
German soldiers lifting the Polish-German border crossing on 1st September 1939. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction but with all...
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Jun 1, 2019
- 14 min
The Fairytale of the 'Regained Territories'
I know the Third Reich is always top of all history curriculums and just as popular these days is refighting the Second World War via...
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Jun 18, 2018
- 11 min
'Rubbing Your Lucky Jew' - a tradition in parts of Poland, as is reorienting the history of
See the image of a popular souvenir I’ve seen on sale at any number of souvenir shops in Slask (Silesia) this one in Szklarska Poreba....
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Feb 3, 2017
- 5 min
Savage Peace
The BBC2 documentary entitled `Savage Peace` has to be the most vivid and graphic account of the atrocities committed against German...
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Apr 29, 2015
- 1 min
Things you didn't know about Germany #5
The Order of the Teutonic Knights fought perhaps the most successful of all the crusades along the shores of the eastern Baltic creating...
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Jan 21, 2015
- 1 min
Surprising Germany #4 - Beer
Germany has over 1,250 breweries offering over 5,000 different brands. That’s four times the number of the rest of the EU combined....
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Dec 18, 2014
- 1 min
Things you didn't know about Germany #3
Barbarossa’s son Heinrich VI had the Richard I, the king of England, kidnapped on his return from the Third Crusade and incarcerated in...
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Oct 1, 2014
- 1 min
Surprising Germany #2 - Bread
While France may offer Europe’s widest selection of cheeses (over 300), the largest and most varied type of breads to eat with them come...
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Sep 8, 2014
- 1 min
Things you didn't know about Germany #1
The first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne (Karl the Great as he is known to the Germans) was not French! The Franks were a Germanic tribe...
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Stephen R A'Barrow
- Aug 9, 2014
- 1 min
Surprising Germany #1 - Cakes
In England we often associate France with artistically creative and the mouth watering cakes found in fine old patisseries, but I’ve not...
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