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Mora, S. and Zwierniak P., (1945). Map of the Soviet Concentration Camps (Gulags) in Russia.
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D III 88 (1939)

German Language with English Subtitles

D III 88 is a 1939 German drama film directed by Herbert Maisch and Hans Bertram and starring Christian Kayßler, Otto Wernicke and Heinz Welzel. It was made as a propaganda film with the support of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Gâring, and was the last of a series of Nazi aviation films to be made before the outbreak of World War II. It was one of the most commercially successful films released during the Nazi era. It was praised by Joseph Goebbels as "an irreproachable film of national destiny". The title, referring to the serial number of the Albatros D.III flown by one of the characters in the World War I, was an attempt to re-inforce the propaganda link between the modern Luftwaffe and that of World War I.

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Northern Myths, Modern Identities
The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 1800
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This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of β€˜northernness’? This volume approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, and brings together case studies from Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Friesland, Britain, the United States and even Japan. Thus, it provides a unique insight into the reception history and uses of northern myths in the present, and their role in the creation of modern identities.
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The Communist expulsion out of Austria by Our Lady – October 1955

Post WW2, Austria was divided between four countries: America, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia, which was still communist. The part of the country under the USSR was subject to harsh persecutions and atrocities of the regime. Capuchin Fr. Petrus Pavlicek, inspired by Our Lady of Fatima founded the Holy Rosary Crusade of Reparation in 1947. By 1955, after eight years spreading the word about the Crusade throughout Austria, the Rosary processions would reach sizes of 500,000 people, about one-tenth of the Austrian population. By October, the Soviets had pulled out of Austria entirely. Each year on September 12th, the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, thousands gather in Vienna to thank the Mother of God for her intercession in freeing their country from communist control.

Once again, Our Mother crushes the serpent under her heel. Pray the Rosary for the times we live in, pray it much.

Holy Mary, pray for us!
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On Emperor Maxentius

"Maximinus was made Emperor by the army; a man born in Thrace of most humble parentage, his father being a Goth named Micca, and his mother a woman of the Alani called Ababa. He reigned three years and lost alike his empire and his life while making war on the Christians." (Jordanes)
"The Romans could bear his barbarities no longer... they rose against him in revolt..." (Eusebius of Caesarea)

Maxentius' Rise to power carries this story:
"...after his first years spent in rustic life, he had come from his flocks to military service in the reign of the Emperor Severus and at the time when he was celebrating his son's birthday. It happened that the Emperor was giving military games. When Maximinus saw this, although he was a semi-barbarian youth, he besought the Emperor in his native tongue to give him permission to wrestle with the trained soldiers for the prizes offered. Severus marvelling much at his great size-for his stature, it is said, was more than eight feet..."
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On Emperor Maxentius "Maximinus was made Emperor by the army; a man born in Thrace of most humble parentage, his father being a Goth named Micca, and his mother a woman of the Alani called Ababa. He reigned three years and lost alike his empire and his life…
[Severus] bade him contend in wrestling with the camp followers, in order that no injury might befall his soldiers at the hands of this wild fellow. Thereupon Maximinus threw sixteen attendants with so great ease that he conquered them one by one without taking any rest by pausing between the bouts. So then, when he had won the prizes, it was ordered that he should be sent into the army and should take his first campaign with the cavalry. On the third day after this, when the Emperor went out to the field, he saw him coursing about in barbarian fashion and bade a tribune restrain him and teach him Roman discipline. But when he understood it was the Emperor who was speaking about him, he came forward and began to run ahead of him as he rode. Then the Emperor spurred on his horse to a slow trot and wheeled in many a circle hither and thither with various turns, until he was weary.

And then he said to him "Are you willing to wrestle now after your running, my little Thracian?"
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[Severus] bade him contend in wrestling with the camp followers, in order that no injury might befall his soldiers at the hands of this wild fellow. Thereupon Maximinus threw sixteen attendants with so great ease that he conquered them one by one without taking…
"As much as you like, O Emperor," he answered.

So Severus leaped from his horse and ordered the freshest soldiers to wrestle with him. But he threw to the ground seven very powerful youths, even as before, taking no breathing space between the bouts. So he alone was given prizes of silver and a golden necklace by Caesar. Then he was bidden to serve in the body guard of the Emperor.'

Jordanes. History of the Goths.
Voshart. Portraits of Roman Emperors
Statue of Severus

Bust of Maxentius
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Heinrich Himmler founded, for example, the German Ancestral Heritage Association (deutsches Ahnenerbe e.V.), a group that engaged in scientific research projects on the descent and characteristics of the "Aryan race".
Heinrich Himmler visits the externe Stones