Theodor Eicke (1892 – 1943) was a German SS officer (SS-Obergruppenführer) and commander of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf. He played an important role in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Along with Michael Lippert, Eicke executed SA Chief Ernst Röhm two days after the Night of the Long Knives, which was the [...]
Freikorps
December 30, 2009 by
Originally, the Freikorps were voluntary armies organized in the German states and principalities in the middle of the 18th century onwards. They were recruited by Frederick II of Prussia to keep law and order when the regular soldiers were busy fighting in the Seven Years War. The original Freikorps did not constituted professional regular armies, [...]
German Revolution of 1918
December 29, 2009 by
The German Revolution of 1918-1919 was a series of riots and violent civil clashes which erupted in Germany at the end of World War I. This social and political strife began in early November 1918 with the sailors mutiny and ended with the establishment of the Weimar Republic in August 1919. The revolution led to the abdication of [...]
Wilhelm Mohnke
December 28, 2009 by
Wilhelm Mohnke (1911 – 2001) was a SS officer and an original memeber of the SS-Staff Guard (Stabswache) "Berlin", created in March 1933. From those ranks, Mohnke rose to become one of Adolf Hitler’s last remaining faithful generals. Mohnke was born in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on March 15, 1911. When he was young he worked in [...]
Annexation of Austria
December 27, 2009 by
The annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Third Reich took place on March 12, 1938, with the help of many Austrian supporters, who were part of a unionists movement known in German "Heim ins Reich" movement. In German the annexation of Austria is known as the "Anschluss", which means connection, or link up. [...]
Kurt Student
December 26, 2009 by
Kurt Student (1890 – 1978) was the commander of the German Paratroopers during World War II. He was Luftwaffe General. Student was born in Birkholz, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on May 12, 1890. He joined the Imperial German Army as an officer candidate in 1910. He was first in the Prussian Infantry, but, [...]
