German POW Camp on Wrangel Island? - History Forum
2020年11月1日 · I had read sometime ago about a vague reference to post WW2 POWs being taken to Wrangel Island and there being no survivors. I read that there was evidently no camp there as part of the GULAG etc. Is that true? There was also a mention that POWs were all members of the SS who the Russians and...
German POW Camp on Wrangel Island? | Page 2 | History Forum
just search Wrangel island on Google map and switch to terrain view there is one main base on the south side with modern buildings of the Arctic military type , a road leading to two radars under dome and a near by communication center of the four sites mentioned by Shifrin , there is no trace , no trace of roads or old buildings , earth-works ...
Did the Greeks know about Woolly Mammoths? | History Forum
2021年1月14日 · Full-sized woolly mammoths disappeared around 10,000 BC, except for Wrangle Island in the arctic where they made it to 4,000 BC. Dwarf wooly mammoths survived on another isolated island in the arctic, St. Paul Island, to 5,600 BC California's Channel Island pygmy mammoths went extinct 9,000 BC.
Who are/were the Indigenous peoples of Novaya Zemlya? Who …
2023年9月22日 · A few sources online mention that they were "Eskimos/Inuit" which doesn't really make sense given the nearest autochtonous Eskimo-Aleut population at that time were the Yupik, Inupiat and Aleut on the eastern edge of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, some islands off the east coast of Kamchatka and possibly Wrangel Island but all are thousands of ...
Mammoths going extinct around 1650 BC | History Forum
2021年4月14日 · I see this claim in many articles and the sources from Wiki are these 2...
Jews of pre-war Poland's cities | History Forum
2024年10月11日 · For example, in the 1920s, the Polish government discussed potentially purchasing the island of Madagascar as a solution to the 'Jewish question'. Click to expand... The Jews of Płock during the defense of the city against the Bolsheviks in 1920 – JewishPlock.eu
The Greatness of Britain | Page 4 | History Forum
2024年10月7日 · Sweden functions a lot like an island and had periods of overseas imperialism but it had a small population due to climate and geography, Charles XII of Sweden ran into the expanding empire of Russia. Sweden also had trouble accessing the North Sea due to Denmark. An alternate-history Kalmar Union might have been a really big empire.
The Greatness of Britain | History Forum
2024年10月7日 · In the present mess we are probably losing the historical perspective about some "actors" in the scene of history. Britain [with capital B] is one of the main actors on the scene of history of this planet. From an Italian perspective, that is to say from a person who has been literally drugged...
Are people from Northern Ireland considered British or Irish?
2011年2月6日 · Afaik the island of Ireland is - after the Island of Great Britain - the second biggest Island of the group of islands that is called "British Isles" so I would think they can easily be both Irish and British. It gets tricky though if British is considered to be "having allegiance to the UK".
The Greatness of Britain | Page 2 | History Forum
2024年10月7日 · I think it is worth remembering that the "Great" in Great Britain does not mean great in the sense of good or fantastic, it means great as in greater or larger. Being the largest island in the group of islands. From memory it was James 1 who wanted to use it to describe his new joint crown of England, Wales and Scotland.