The 23rd of February, 1918 is considered the founding date of the Red Army. Leon Trotsky, the People's Commissar for the military matters, had led the way. The Red Army emerged out of the Red...

On February 24th 1956 the delegates of the 20th Congress of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)vote to approve the new foreign policy line of their party leader Nikita Khrushchev. It...

Adolf Hitler - not German? An unbearable thought for his party comrades in 1932, and yet it is true: Hitler was born in 1889 in Braunau am Inn, and gave up his Austrian citizenship in 1925 and had...

On February 26th 1924, six months after Hitler's failed putsch on November 9th 1923, began in Munich, the so-called “Hitler trial”. Extensive barriers and controls were to avoid unrests. The...

February 27th 1933: In Berlin, Germany the Reichstag burns. Arrested as a suspected arsonist, is Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. The National Socialists however suspected the KPD of an...

February 28th 1925: The first president of the Weimar Republic, Friedrich Ebert dies. Born in 1871 in Heidelberg, the SPD politician is a key figure of the parliamentary democracy in Germany. In...

The Bikini Atoll is located in the Pacific Ocean and is part of the Marshall Islands. Since the 1940s the U.S. have been testing their nuclear weapons there, to determine their potential for...

March 2nd 1939 - in Rome, the Cardinal State Secretary Eugenio Pacelli, is elected Pope under the name Pius XII. His person is not without controversy among historians. In particular, the...

On March 3rd 1918 Soviet Russia and the "Central Powers" (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey) signed a separate peace treaty, the Brest-Litovsk treaty. After the revolution, on November...

On March 4th, 1933, Theodore Roosevelt begins his first term as U.S. president. He was the only president of the United States, who, because of the Second World War, expanded the then voluntary...