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Peter Stumpp (c. 1530 –1589; name is also spelt as Peter Stube, Peter Stubbe, Peter Stübbe or Peter Stumpf) was a German farmer and alleged serial killer, accused of werewolfery, witchcraft, and cannibalism. He was known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg".
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...
A New Zealander fighting on Ukraine’s southern front who asked to be identified by his nickname, Obi-One, said he and his unit of international soldiers write the names of killed or missing ...
In total, over 5,000 native Ukrainian soldiers of the Red Army signed up for training with the SS at a special Trawniki training camp to assist with the Final Solution. [31] Another 1,000 defected during field operations. [31] Trawniki men took a major part in the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews during Operation Reinhard.
Ukraine – a year of war: The Independent presents a selection of the most striking images of the conflict
If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Captured, injured, but undeterred. One soldier’s life fighting for Ukraine
Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (German: Ukrainische Sitschower Schützen; Ukrainian: Українські cічові стрільці (УСС), romanized: Ukrainski sichovi striltsi (USS)) was a Ukrainian unit within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War.
The painting depicts volunteer Oleksiy Movchan, a 49-year-old who was killed by Russian shelling in May 2022 in the eastern Donetsk region shortly after he and three of his fellow soldiers rescued ...