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Stephen R A'Barrow
May 5, 20208 min read
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, 202013 min read
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, 201914 min read
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, 201811 min read
'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, 20175 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20141 min read
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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