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Arson in the Countryside
Farmhands were involved in the majority of arson cases in the countryside. A common reason for committing arson on the property of the master were disputes over pay and the feeling of undervaluation... [Item of the Day]
We Are the People
A  weekly 'Monday demonstration' was held on 2 October 1989 in Leipzig,  German Democratic Republic, with up to 20,000 participants. The slogans included: Freedom, equality, brotherhood, We’re... [Item of the Day]
German Deserters
In 1917, 3,000 German deserters in Holland were officially registered. But this number should be multipled, as many Germans stayed in Holland illegally. The deserters themselves estimated their... [Item of the Day]
The Weavers
In early June 1844, hundreds of cottage workers, armed with clubs and fence posts, stormed the homes and business of their manufacturers in Silesia (Central Europe). Cotton weavers were protesting... [Item of the Day]
Work Deployment
Many of the '28.1 million workers and employees' in Hitler Germany recorded as of 1 June 1943 were civilian foreign labourers and concentration camp prisoners. A minority of all prisoners in Nazi... [Item of the Day]
Migrant Workers
Friedrich Schweppe (born 1839, died 27 October 1927),  a German migrant worker, was a highly estimated fireman-gang leader in the brickyard of mr Tichelaar in the Dutch village Loppersum, province of... [Item of the Day]
Electricity without atomic energy
Despite the call from the powerful German anti-nuclear movement to protest against the construction of the nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim II on the September 12, 1983, this  last newly built... [Item of the Day]
The execution of Carl Ludwig Sand
In March 1819 the popular German writer August von Kotzebue was executed in Mannheim as a “traitor to the fatherland” by a student of theology, Carl Ludwig Sand (1795-1820). Kotzebue had sharply... [Item of the Day]
Deported to Holland
Rudolf Rocker, born in 1873 in Mainz of Catholic parents, became an anarchist and settled in London at the end of the nineteenth century. During the First World War, Rocker, though by no means a... [Item of the Day]
Street of June 17th
Since July 1953 the Charlottenburger Allee in West Berlin has been called Strasse des 17. Juni (Street of 17 June). That was the date when the people of East Berlin and other cities in East Germany... [Item of the Day]

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