Reblogged from Church, State, Faith and Culture: A Doctor’s House of Horrors and Social Darwinism One of the things I enjoy about World Magazine are the reviews. Movies, music and books are reviewed in each issue and while I cannot possibly read all the books reviewed the reviews do give me an idea of what’s […]

Reblogged from Map of Time | A Trip Into the Past: 18 December 1944. The Philippine Sea. Under Admiral William “Bull” Halsey Task Force 38 steamed for a rendezvous point where they would meet up with Task Force 30.8 (refueling) and Task Force 30.7 (anti-submarine “guard” for TF 30.8). TF 38 would refuel before returning to the […]

Reblogged from Map of Time | A Trip Into the Past: Indianapolis, Indiana is a tremendous size. With that size come oodles of historical sites and plaques. I doubt that a person would be able to take in even one-quarter of everything in one day. One thing I’ve always wanted to see for myself is […]

Reblogged from Under Every Leaf.: This is one of my favourite pictures from the Boer War. It is labelled Royal Munster Fusiliers fighting from behind redoubt at Honey Nest Kloof (Feb 16th 1900). Now I have always wondered if this was real or staged for the photographer. A number of things have concerned me. 1) […]

Reblogged from The Cotton Boll Conspiracy: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last surviving member of the July 20, 1944, plot to kill Adolf Hitler, died earlier this month at age 90. Von Kleist had joined the Wehrmacht as an infantry officer in 1940 at age 18, but he did so out of an allegiance to country, […]

Reblogged from Church, State, Faith and Culture: The headline read Ordinary German Soldiers Responsible War Crimes, not just SS. (Daily Mail, UK) It was the second time I saw the article. The first time it was in Der Spiegel a German magazine, English edition and the second time in the UK’s Daily Mail. In both […]

Reblogged from Gott mit uns! German Military History 1848-1945: This article was inspired by and is dedicated to Herr Paul Reed (Twitter @sommecourt), who tweeted images of von Gillhaußens Tomb in Berlin a short while ago. I was intrigued what could be found about the man resting below it. Guido Pankratius Hermann von Gillhaußen was […]

Reblogged from Gott mit uns! German Military History 1848-1945: A while ago I wrote some lines on Twitter about germany’s youngest soldier to be killed in World War 1*. No one seemed to have heard about him. The same probably applies to Caspar René Gregory, its oldest volunteer. As he was a fascinating character I […]

Reblogged from Gott mit uns! German Military History 1848-1945: On my shelf there is a pile of machine-typed letters I “inherited” in 2009. They  were passed on to me by a member of the association of former “Poznan Fighters” (Verband der ehemaligen Posenkämpfer) and were written by former Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe soldiers between 1964 and […]

Readers and occasional visitors to this blog might have noted a change in the blog’s title. It used to be Stuff That Interests Me and now it’s History Stuff That Interests me. The reason I changed the title is because I’m seeking to change the emphasis of this blog to more history and less politics […]