Category: History/Historic

(Published in GralsWelt 7/1998). In Beijing, an “Atlas of Shame” was drawn up in which “Hundreds of years of shame and humiliation by the colonial masters” are recorded. “Whatever happens, we have the Maxim rifle and they don't.” Hilaire BELLOC (1870-1953). Because unfortunately Europeans and Americans in East Asia have less often to practice Christianity [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 5/1997) When people talk about "economic growth" today, one looks confusedly at East Asia. There the economy is expanding, there have been growth rates in production for years that classic industrialized countries can only dream of, and there one expects the rapidly growing markets of the future, in which Europe and America will have to be present, if [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 5/1997) ARE WE ALREADY LIVING IN 2004? A calendar is something so natural that we no longer have to worry about how and when it was created. We also take the upcoming year 2000, a magical date for Christian cultures, almost as "given by nature", without going any further about the beginning of our "Gregorian calendar" [...]

Published in GralsWelt 20/2001 The two world wars of the 20th century must be viewed together. Without the First World War, without the unjust Peace Treaty of Versailles, there would not have been any Chancellor Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) or a major European war. Because Hitler's "program" was the correction of the Versailles Treaty. When this goal was achieved - [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 19/2001) In memories of the time after the First World War, people speak of the “golden twenties”, the “golden twenties”. During that decade, between 1920 and 1930, Europe slowly recovered from the wounds of war, and art and culture flourished. Many developments, the effects of which can still be felt today, such as the rise [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 18/2001) At the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15, after Napoleon's fall, European diplomats created a so-called balance of power that was supposed to give the continent stable conditions and save war. The unification of the German provinces into a common state (1871) and the subsequent rise of the German Empire to an important industrial nation disturbed this balance of forces. Such [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 18/2001) Of the 14 mountains on our planet that are over 8,000 meters high, eight - including Sagarmantha (Everest) at 8,848 meters - lie wholly or partly in Nepal, the last Hindu kingdom, a country of some 25 million inhabitants, once the land of Buddha, now a magnet for trekkers. Two continental plates collide in the [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 17/2000) In the second half of the 19th century Europe reached the height of its importance in the world: European science and culture seemed to be well on the way to determining “world culture”. Christianity also wanted to convert the remaining peoples to its faith. However, the Christian churches were divided on hundreds of denominations, and [...]