Dinge en Goete (Things and Stuff)

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke. What happened on this Day in History?

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

This Day in WWII History: Apr 8, 1945: Defiant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged

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  On this day in 1945, Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenburg, only days before t...
Monday, April 7, 2014

This Day in WWII History: Apr 7, 1939: Italy invades Albania

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  On this day in 1939, in an effort to mimic Hitler's conquest of Prague, Benito Mussolini 's troops, though ba...
Friday, April 4, 2014

This Day in WWII History: Apr 4, 1884: Yamamoto Isoroku, Japan's mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack, is born

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Yamamoto Isoroku, perhaps Japan's greatest strategist and the officer who would contrive the surprise air attack o...
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