Germany in winter is a cozy wonderland of fairy-tale villages, festive markets, and snow-covered forests! ❄️🎄 Fun fact: The Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) are the birthplace of many of Germany’s beloved Christmas traditions, from nutcrackers to wooden pyramids and candle arches 🕯️ 💡 Traveler tip: Visit Seiffen, the toy-making village, for handmade Christmas decorations and a market straight out of a snow globe. Video by Felix Schreiner | @felixschreiner_ | Guide to Europe

In Nazi Germany, they weren’t soldiers — they were teenagers with guitars, courage, and a love for freedom. But on October 25, 1944, Heinrich Himmler unleashed a brutal crackdown that would silence many of them forever. This is the haunting story of the Edelweiss Pirates — the youth who dared to resist Hitler’s regime. 🌸⚡ #WWII #HistoryShorts #EdelweissPirates #HeinrichHimmler #Resistance #OnThisDay #WorldWar2 | Random Fact World

Operation Walküre 🧳 – Das Stauffenberg-Attentat vom 20. Juli 1944 ⚖️ Operation Walküre war ursprünglich ein Mobilisierungsplan zur Aufrechterhaltung der Staatsordnung bei inneren Krisen. 1944 wurde er von Widerstandskreisen in Militär und Verwaltung umfunktioniert, um die NS-Führung zu stürzen. Am 20. Juli 1944 zündete Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg eine Bombe während einer Lagebesprechung in der Wolfsschanze. Die Explosion tötete vier Personen, doch Hitler überlebte aufgrund der räumlichen

The **Auschwitz Death Marches** of 1944-1945 were among the final chapters of the Holocaust, marking the Nazis' attempt to cover up the atrocities they had committed as the Allies advanced across Europe. As Soviet forces closed in on Auschwitz and other concentration camps in the winter of 1944, the Nazis began evacuating the remaining prisoners, forcing them to march long distances to other camps further inside Germany, where they hoped to continue exploiting them as labor or eliminate them ent