Christian Heinrich Heineken, the child prodigy who impressed Europe at just four years old

It is surprising that centuries ago, in times when access to education was practically restricted to the elites and pedagogy…

The German female athlete at the 1936 Berlin Olympics who turned out to be a man

A recent case is that of Caster Semenya, South African athlete twice Olympic champion and three times world champion in…

Luz Long, the German athlete who befriended Jesse Owens and helped him win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

On 13 July 1943, a death occurred in the British field hospital in Acate, in the Sicilian province of Ragusa…

Rettungsboje, the rescue buoy devised by the Germans in World War II to save downed pilots

Searching for a castaway lost at sea is an arduous and often frustrating task. Unless the search area can be…

The true story of the Illuminati

When Adam Weishaupt founded the Association of Perfectibilists in 1776, he surely did not imagine that he was adding fuel…

The Japanese ambassador to Berlin who involuntarily made Normandy landings easier to the Allies

Although intelligence services were consecrated above all in the Cold War, they had already had more or less important roles…

The plans designed by the German Empire between 1897 and 1903 to invade the United States

That the German Empire had speculated on the possibility of invading the United States before the twentieth century was well…