History

In the course of modern history, exit bans have established themselves as a continuous means of political control. As early as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, rulers used their power to ban the serf and journeymen from leaving their place of birth. [...]

The Lausitzer Bergland is a landscape in which history, language and culture are superimposed in a way that is still noticeable today. Anyone who looks at this region quickly realizes that their development was not isolated, but... [...]

In school education we are taught that feudalism was an extremely cruel and brutal social system that caused immeasurable human suffering and great misery. This representation is generally correct and is characterized by the historical... [...]

After the end of the First World War, the Rhineland was in a phase of great uncertainty and social upheavals. The region had changed its political affiliations several times in the previous decades, which among the population had a... [...]

Only a small, selected group of initiates was fully informed about the extensive import business with the tarn name "Object X". This was the procurement of a large package of state-of-the-art cutting-edge technology for the Stasi. to... [...]

On a September morning in 1981, two officials from the Swiss Federal Police in Lugano interview a German entrepreneur. The federal prosecutor's office has initiated a court investigation against the 54-year-old man on suspicion of espionage. The good... [...]

In late antiquity, a profound disintegration of those cultural structures that had formed the foundation of spiritual life over many generations was evident. The gradual loss of importance of traditional educational institutions, which was once called... [...]

Surprisingly, Prohibition developed into one of the central driving forces that significantly promoted global drug trafficking. Over the late twentieth century, international anti-drug campaigns, especially by the United Nations and the United States, became more intensified. [...]

The Vietnam War was not only a military disaster, but a moral bankruptcy of the state towards its own citizens. He exposed a republic that was outwardly staged as a guardian of freedom and democracy, inside... [...]

International drug trafficking has been a complex and often secret network for decades, which is deeply integrated into political, economic and criminal structures. While some personalities through their ability to build networks, consolidate power and... [...]