The German couple which traveled for 26 years, through 179 countries along 550 thousand miles with a Mercedes G-Class
If Gunther Holtorf had a lengthy career with Lufthansa beginning in 1958, in 1989, he left his job to take an on-the-road journey. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, […]
Klaus Störtebeker: the legendary German pirate who deceived death
Although over the centuries the reputation of Klaus Störtebeker (1360-1401) took on a legendary aura, almost like a German Robin Hood, in real life he was probably a pirate not […]
Konstanz: the German city that avoided WWII bombing by pretending to be Switzerland
Europe, the old continent so rich in artistic, historical and architectural treasures, suffered incurable wounds especially during the World War II, in which centuries of history were swept away by […]
Roter Franz, the Mummy with Hair, Beard and Red Eyebrows
Roter Franz is the mummy of a young man found in the Bourtanger swamp, on the border between Holland and Germany, in 1900. Also known as “Neu Versen Man”, the […]
Crimes, mysteries and ghosts in Beelitz, Germany.
Crimes, mysteries and ghosts: this is Beelitz, a famous abandoned German hospital, located near Berlin, exactly in the south-west part. The entire structure is made up of 60 buildings and […]
7# The Dark Side of Christmas: Krampus, Santa’s horned helper!
In ancient times, a dark, hairy, horned beast was said to show up at the door to kidnap children. The Krampus could be heard in the night by the sound […]
2# Thomas Nast: the cartoonist who invented the Modern Icon of Santa Claus.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Santa Claus was still a character to be defined. What could he wear? In magazines people did not know how to draw him, […]
The strange story of the friendship between Hitler and a Jewish little girl.
We all know that Adolf Hitler was responsible for sending six million Jews to their deaths. Her name was Rosa Bernile Nienau and she was a little girl of Jewish […]
Götz von Berlichingen: the legendary German Knight of the Iron Hand
Götz von Berlichingen was born in Germany around 1480, around the time that even those belonging to families of the small nobility with few means, like him, very often became […]
Bleikeller: eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
When Arp Schnitger, a reputed organ maker who working in Germany in the late 17th century, was assigned a portion of an underground crypt of St Peter’s Cathedral in Bremen […]
The “Hunger Stones”: sinister messages of the past discovered in Děčín.
The low water levels in the river that begins in the Czech Republic then crosses Germany into the North Sea has exposed stones on the river bed whose appearances in […]
The Frankenstein Castle where the Alchemist who inspired Mary Shelley was born.
The Frankenstein Castle, near Darmstadt in Germany, looms over the surrounding countryside since many centuries. The area was colonized by the Franks in the 6th century, and some of them […]
The Third Wave: a curious Experiment about Nazism
The images of Berlin, devastated by the Second World War, can induce what was the recurring question in the years following the end of the conflict: how did the Germans […]
The “Bridge of the Devil” Rakotzbrücke is a fantastic optical illusion.
There are many “Devil’s bridges” in Europe, but the Rakotzbrücke located in the Kromlau Nature Park, Germany, is probably the best known and most spectacular of them all. Most of […]
Donauquelle: the great Danube river starts here.
The start of the great Danube, which flows over 2,700 kilometers, through 10 countries, before to flows into the Black Sea, can be found in the small german town of […]
King Frederick William I of Prussia and his “obsession”…
King Frederick William I of Prussia, also know as “The Soldier King”, was undoubtedly a leader, skilled to running his country’s economy and the military. During his reign, between 1713 […]
