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4 days ago · Born Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, she became Empress of Austria through her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph in 1854. Despite her seemingly charmed existence, Elisabeth‘s life was far from a fairy tale, as she faced numerous challenges and heartbreaks throughout her 44 years as Empress.
3 days ago · Euphrosyne is notable for having been the last Rus princess to rule as Queen of Hungary and the last Rus princess to rule over a Latin Christian kingdom. Sources Font, Marta; “The princess of Kievan Rus in Hungarian History” on hromada.hu
5 days ago · After the suspicious Reichstag fire in February, Hitler persuaded a reluctant Hindenburg to sign the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties and allowed the Nazis to arrest political opponents.
4 days ago · St. Elizabeth of Hungary, whose feast day we celebrate Nov. 17, stands as a witness of this cohort in the Communion of Saints. Wed to King Ludwig of Thuringia as a teenager, St. Elizabeth grew up in the very center of European wealth in the 13th century.
2 days ago · In late 1939 and early 1940, Hans Frank, the General Governor of occupied Poland, refused to accept the 30,000 German and Austrian Roma which were to be deported to his territory. Heinrich Himmler "lobbied to save a handful of pure-blooded Roma", whom he believed to be an ancient Aryan people for his "ethnic reservation", but was opposed by ...
1 day ago · Parts of this grim tale will have a familiar ring for readers of Gellately’s earlier work, or of the vast literature that deals with Nazi Germany’s police state and its concentration camp system, but Backing Hitler remains a highly knowledgeable and thorough account nonetheless.
5 days ago · Before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on 7 December 1941, the first ‘day of infamy’ for the Western world in the 20th century occurred with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on Sunday, 28 June 1914.
