Germany
Baukommando Becker – Artillery Conversions
Alfred Becker started the war in the west with his Batterie (12.) horse powered. After reaching the first Dutch artillery depot on the way of 227. ID he equipped his Batterie and the recon element of 227. ID with motorized vehicles. Becker started to refit his Batterie with SPA’s by himself, with an arc welder. After 6 month the first…
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The “Fahrgerät” FG1250 IR Night Vision equipment
“Solution B” It’s only a model!” The Germans started experimenting with Night Vision technology in a date as early as 1936. The first night driving tests by Wa Pruf 8/I occur in 1937. The Army considers the device ludicrously expensive for driving around at night. Before the war the use…
Anglo-French [non]-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War I
If Britain and France refrained from challenging Italy and Germany in Spain, this was not because they were blind to the threat to their strategic interests; Â it was because they feared that a general war in Western Europe, whether they won or lost, could only redound to the benefit of…
Anglo-French [non]-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War II
It would be false to convey the impression that only Stalin, NegrĂn, and the Spanish Communists placed their hopes of victory in the Civil War in the eventual outbreak of a European conflict, for these hopes were also entertained, as we have seen, by some leaders of the CNT. They…
Salians
The Salian (German, Salier) dynasty, which produced four kings or emperors in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, traced its roots back to at least the seventh century to a kinship group (Adelssippe) known as the Widonen that held high administrative positions and occasionally occupied the episcopal chair in Trier.…
The Holy Roman Empire in the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries I
The Hohenstaufen-ruled Holy Roman Empire and Kingdom of Sicily. Imperial and directly held Hohenstaufen lands in the Empire are shown in bright yellow. During all the years in which the Hohenstaufens had been occupied with their hitter wars against the papacy, Germany of her own accord had been making wonderful…
The Holy Roman Empire in the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries II
Art by Graham Turner What gave the impulse to a new growth or a new founding of cities was the establishment of markets and the bestowal of privileges in connection with them. Markets might be founded at first only by express permission of the kings, who received in return certain…