Sangsar, Panjawi Disctrict, Kandahar Province in Afghanistan.
Canadian and Afghan National Army troops move at night, and engage Taliban forces at dawn. The firefight drags trough the morning. A wounded talib is given first aid and evacuated by a US helicopter to Kandahar Airfield for treatments.
Notice the bullets and RPG rounds wizzing by close to the cameraman. Wicked.
The Great War rapidly went global as the European powers drew on their colonial empires to fight each others. Royal Navy squadrons chased German warships commanded by brilliant maverick seamen accross the globe. The Japanese seized Tsingtao from the Germans. And in Africa German commander Von Lettow-Vorbeck fought a very successful nuisance war against the British.
The swastika is an ancient asian spiritual symbol, present in Indu, Tibetan, Chinese, Korean and Japanese cultures. How did the white supremasist German fascists come to adopt this symbol as their own? here is the story on how the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany misappropriated the swastika for their own aims.
From commander of Hitler's bodyguard unit to his untimely death at the hands of the Gestapo, Feldmarshal Erwin Rommel's relationship with Hitler and the nazi regime.
The swastika is an ancient asian spiritual symbol, present in Indu, Tibetan, Chinese, Korean and Japanese cultures. How did the white supremasist German fascists come to adopt this symbol as their own? here is the story on how the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany misappropriated the swastika for their own aims.
In early 20th century, Europe was fetid with the smell of rotting empires crumbling under their own weight. When, in August 1914, Archiduke Francis-Ferdinant of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo it was only the tiny spark to ignite a storm that had been gathering for decades.
This is how the First World War started.
Part 1 of 6.
From commander of Hitler's bodyguard unit to his untimely death at the hands of the Gestapo, Feldmarshal Erwin Rommel's relationship with Hitler and the nazi regime.
Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry on the offensive against Taliban forces in Afghanistan. With support from US, UK, Dutch and Afghan forces, the Patricias took the fight to the enemy.
Faced with a war on two fronts, Germany sought out allies to stretch her enemies and reduce the pressure on her. At that time, the nominaly neutral Ottoman Empire leaned towards Germany; the Allies would tip the Ottoman Empire into the German camp. The Allies thought that Turkey, the "sick man of Europe", would be an easy pushover. They soon discovered this would not be the case.
![Hitler\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/brmLApuFHWs/2.jpg "Hitler\")
![Hitler\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/Mm5Mb944T5I/2.jpg "Hitler\")
