East Germany's nudists

During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese VietCong guerrillas built a vast network of tunnels in the south of the country as part of the insurgency against the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. The tunnel network was a key base and shelter for the North Vietna ...  عرض المزيد

In October 1984, as the market for mobile phones was just opening up, one man decided it would be useful if the new technology could be used to send and receive short, electronic messages.But colleagues of Friedhelm 'Fred' Hillebrand - an engineer for Germany's Deutsche Telekom - ...  عرض المزيد

In the 1930s, a group of German-American Nazi sympathisers known as the German American Bund held rallies and summer camps across the US. In Feburary 1939, they held a meeting for 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York.Lucy Burns speaks to Skip Eernisse, who remembers ...  عرض المزيد

Hitler made his first attempt at seizing power in Germany in 1923, ten years before he eventually became Chancellor. The failed "beer hall putsch" - so named because it started in a beer hall in the southern city of Munich - would become a foundational part of the Nazis' self- ...

It had been one of the enduring icons of the Cold War. It had divided East Berlin from West Berlin; and socialism from capitalism. But on 9 November, 1989, after weeks of anti-Communist protests across East Germany, that all changed. Hear from two East Germans - Aram Radomski and ...  عرض المزيد

Wisst Ihr, was FKK ist? Die Abkürzung steht für Freikörperkultur. Ihr kennt das vielleicht als Nudismus. Es geht kurz und knapp um nackte Menschen. 1898 gab es in Essen den ersten FKK-Verein. Während man früher oft nackt gebadet hatte, wurde das immer mehr ein Tabu. Man zeigte si ...  عرض المزيد