Alex > Recent Status Updates

Alexius' plan to distinguish Bogomils and Christians was brilliant, I really must say.

"Harassment is common to all officer-candidate schools, but what did it have to do with flying? The answer is that everybody in the army is a soldier first, his specialty second. It was going to be a long nine months."

"In the last years of her life, María was afflicted with a paralysis and rheumatism and much suffering. It is said that Teresa appeared to her, comforted her and told her that this was fitting because, since she loved her so much, she wanted her to be close to her in heaven."

"The side panels show scenes from the life of Joseph in the book of Genesis: Joseph’s role as adviser to Pharaoh was sometimes used as a symbol of a bishop’s role as adviser to the emperor."

"BAB, NS 19/397, cost-sheet for King Henry celebrations of 1942, 1943, and 1944; note by Brandt from 19 August 1944, who considered it more than questionable whether ‘the dignity of the King Henry celebrations and more particularly living conditions in the fifth year of war are compatible with the expenditure of 300 Reich marks on alcohol for a group of 21 people’."

"From March 1944 to April 1945 Himmler had a work detail of twenty prisoners carry out construction work on air-raid shelters on his property in Gmund. Margarete Himmler observed the progress of the work and complained about the prisoners’ poor performance; one of them died while at work."