Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Preparation H For Shrinking Waist

"Night of Long Knives" 75 years ago

On 30 June 1934 Ernst Röhm was (head of the storm troopers of the NSDAP, SA, and Hitler's deputy) killed a number of other SA members on the orders of Hitler. The background is that Röhm very extensive wanted to set our own political ideas of a Nazi regime and Hitler, and challenged the gang of Goebbels and Goering.

So it just made it Hitler, the SA of a coup in the early 30's to hold back, as the former already saw the opportunity to come to a legalistic way (ie on the basis of laws and parliamentary mechanisms) to power. Also, the aggressive actions of the SA after taking over the rule of the Nazi party in Germany in Hitler's eyes was counterproductive. Wider objectives were

Roehm:

- the SA is part of the regular armed forces are
- Röhm himself is said to be Minister of War
- expropriation within the meaning of the NSDAP program 1920

This risk, he not only the power-trio Hitler-Goering-Goebbels, but also the political alliances that Hitler has attached to the target of a powerful, to create after the Treaty of Versailles prohibited German armed forces: the army was the monopoly of military weapons and promised nationalization risk the development of an industrial and agricultural basis of rearmament and the medium term planned wars of aggression. wanted

Fractionation of the Nazi Party Hitler did not accept, the June killings appeared to be a tool to eliminate any internal party opposition through fear and terror to nip in the bud.

indication is for the internal power struggle and that Hitler's bodyguard (the Schutzstaffel, SS) a few weeks later, the Army already has been incorporated. The argument of the independence of the German army was just a straw man.

On 3 July, the murderer out all the stops and took advantage of the legalized extortion by the Enabling Act legislative power to the murders. The Nazi government enacted the Law on Measures State self-defense as follows: for the suppression of high and treasonable attacks on
The 30th June, 1 and 2 July 1934 completed a state self-defense measures are legal.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

What Does Copenhagenlong Cut Taste Like

Mock and horn cut through the "Iron Curtain"

The Foreign Minister of Hungary (Gyula Horn) and Austria (Alois Mock) by symbolically cut on 27 June 1989 piece by the Hungarian border fortification.

This is also borne out internationally, which was started several months ago from Hungary: the removal of border fortifications to capitalist states and the path to an economically and politically pluralistic system. Original documents can be found on the website of the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security .

was with this act but also a sign to many East Germans set: the border between Hungary and Austria was ripped open and thus a gap in the direction of the Federal Republic of Germany. Many summer visitors from the GDR did not result in more return home, but emigrate to West Germany via Austria.


Image: Alois Mock (left) and Gyula Horn (right) cut through a barbed wire fence




Source: http://members.aon.at/roemersteinarena/Mock&Horn27.6.1989. jpg

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Pokemon Soul Silver For Demume

Battle of Solferino - blood red dusk of a vanishing time

On 24 June 1859 was the Battle of Solferino (south of the lake) between the Austrian army on one side and the coalition army of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and France defeated on the other side. The Austrian Army lost.

This battle is probably the end point of the small states of Europe and the influence of major powers to miniature principalities.

lost with this defeat and the peace concluded in November 1859 from Zurich Austria more or less influence on the entire northern Italy. The way to the Italian unification in 1870 was free. Characteristic: King Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont-Sardinia in 1861 was the first king of united Italy, not quite.

But the German federal government began to crumble with this defeat, Prussia was becoming the challenger of the Habsburg dominance, which eventually in 1866 in the Battle of Hradec Kralove between Austria and Prussia and the Austrian defeat culminated.

The ensuing political events changed Europe from the ground up:

- 1867 balancing between Austria and Hungary: new European superpower
- 1870 unification of Italy: new European superpower
- 1871 Second German Empire

Central Europe was no longer characterized by small states that led to minor war. Central Europe had three great powers, backed by France in the west and Russia to the east. This came after an unsuccessful union and unity and a movement striving Panslavic colonies concentrated on his United Kingdom.

Peace in this game, the great powers held more than 40 years, but it ended with the two world wars of the 20th Century in the largest massacre that had to experience the world ever.

Henry Dunant, a Swiss businessman who happened to be present at the battle of Solferino and the suffering of soldiers on both sides could not look on stoically and organized with residents of surrounding villages a medical service, has probably hardly imagine how beastly people 20th Century can kill. The suffering of tens of thousands of soldiers was enough to start a organization that devoted himself to the care of victims: the Red cross.