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Randy Malmstrom takes a look at the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum's Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-13 "Yellow 10".
Konrad Adenauer was born on 5 January 1876 in Cologne. His father, Konrad, was a civil servant in the middle grade of the civil service. His mother, Helene Scharfenberg, also hailed from a civil ...
Following the French occupation of the Rhineland, the French administration ordered the closure of the universities of Cologne, Mainz, Bonn and Trier in 1798. Trier University was re-established in ...
The northern part of the Rhineland has been freed from this occupation since January, 1926; the second zone is to be evacuated in 1929; the third zone, however, embracing principally the Hessian and ...
The greatest factor in the news about the Ruhr is a movement for a Rhineland Republic. The French have long encouraged the formation of such a republic, which would consititute a buffer state ...
In 1944, the émigré political scientist Ernst Fraenkel published a book called Military Occupation and the Rule of Law — Occupational Government in the Rhineland 1918-1923 to alert the future ...
In the Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: ...
Under agreements reached when the Locarno treaties were signed, the occupation of the Rhineland has been so reduced as to be little more than a formality. Nevertheless it remains a matter of ...
Brand wad discharged from the Army in October 1945, having received, among others, the Bronze Star, the Army Occupation Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Purple Heart and the Overseas Service Bar.