12.11.1955: Erste Rekruten der Bundesweh...

Jahrhunderte war die Tollwut für viele Menschen das personifizierte Böse - am 6. Juli 1885 gelang es dem französischen Wissenschaftler Louis Pasteur erstmals erfolgreich ein Mittel gegen den Ausbruch der Krankheit einzusetzen. 

Schnell hatte Propagandaminister Goebbels das Potenzial des jungen Mediums Rundfunk erkannt: "Der Rundfunk gehört uns, niemandem sonst. Und den Rundfunk werden wir in den Dienst unserer Idee stellen, und keine andere Idee soll hier zu Wort kommen." 

Von der Kritik kontrovers diskutiert, bleibt die Faszination der Leser für Hermann Hesse bis heute ungebrochen: Der Autor wird am 2. Juli 1877 im Schwarzwald-Städtchen Calw geboren. 

Die Informationen in diesem Text sind veraltet - bitte informiert Euch im Internet über die aktuelle Situation. Sobald Zeit ist werden wir den Text hier ergänzen. In Deutschland gibt es ein Gesetz, nach dem alle männlichen deutschen Staatsbürger wehrpflichtig sind, sobald sie 18 ... Show More

During World War One the 369th Infantry Regiment of the US Army gained a fearsome reputation. One of the most effective fighting units they spent more time in the frontline and suffered more casualties than any other American regiment. Given the nickname Men of Bronze by the Fren ... Show More

In 1973 America ended a draft that had been in effect since before it entered the second World War, and for the last fifty years the US Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines have been an all-volunteer military.But, recently, of the four major branches which make up the US armed servi ... Show More

Diane Hight founded Forever Young Veterans in 2006. Her organization grants wishes for military veterans from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. She has honored more than 2,600 veterans by taking them on military “Trips of Honor” to places like Washington DC, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Italy ... Show More

1942 - 1945 - Easy Company were such a closely knit unit of men, that they have been referred to as a "band of brothers", a phrase inspired by the writing of William Shakespeare. Follow the Second World War story of these United States army paratroopers. 

This episode contains strong language and scenes of war that some may find distressing. In 2010, James Dao, then a military affairs reporter for The New York Times, began following a battalion of U.S. soldiers headed for Afghanistan.Two soldiers caught his attention: Adrian Bonen ... Show More

I am very excited to be joined by Colonel Kevin W. Farrell, who spent over 30 years in uniform and commanded at the platoon, company, and battalion levels. He finished up in the army as the Chief of the Military History Division at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. I am fa ... Show More