Category: News
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NSA’s long history of illegal eavesdropping
As Edward Snowden showed the world to what extent the American National Security Agency has been tracking emails and phone-calls, a worldwide public outcry for more privacy protection followed. It is likely that most political leaders (friend or foe) were surveyed by the NSA’s Prism Program, as were all major companies. Moreover, public websites, like mail-services and social…
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Disappointment: Germany’s oldest piggy bank is empty
Imagine you have a piggy bank that’s more than 700 years old. It must be so inviting to take a hammer, break it and marvel at the exposed riches. Luckily, that’s not the course of action taken by the Weimar Museum of History. They have Germany’s oldest piggy bank in their collection: the Tonschwein, created in…
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Mystery regarding Gestapo-Müller unsolved
Heinrich Müller, one of Hitlers most brutal and sadist nazi’s during the Third Reich, reaches for the headlines once more. Müller was head of the nazi secret police, the Gestapo, and Adolf Eichmann reported to him directly. ‘Gestapo-Müller’ was one of the main perpetrators of the Holocaust. And now historian Johannes Tuchel claims in Bild…
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‘Besatzungskinder’ are still searching their fathers
‘Besatzungskinder‘ where children in post-war Germany born from Allied soldiers who disappeared before their birth. An estimated 200.000 of these children were left behind. Many of them never stopped looking for their father. Last Saturday, dozens of them gathered in Berlin. With help of GI Trace they still want to find their fathers. Only children of Americans stand…
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America’s universities were built on slave-trade
Slavery is intertwined with human history. This is emphasized by new publication on the relationship between America’s universities and slavery. It turns out that many educational institutions are historically connected with the slavery. Popular universities like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia – these elite colleges all conceal a painful history. Craig Steven…
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What did the real Jesus look like?
Our image of Jesus is that of a bearded, masculine figure. A man in agony, hanging on the cross, crucified for the sins of humanity. This rather gloomy presence is quite different in comparison to the Jesus from early Christianity. This original image of Christ is much debated lately, mainly by art historians. Recently, a…
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Our ancestors hunted and gathered far longer than assumed
It was long thought that the hunter-gathering lifestyle disappeared when farming was introduced, around 5000 BC. Since farming is a much more effective way of producing food, either by growing plants or livestock, the hunter-gathering lifestyle was obsolete. Moreover, no archaeological evidence was found that hunter-gathering survived. But a new study, focused on archaeological findings…