Interesting history

Interesting history:


Charles De Gaulle:





Charles Andre Joseph Marie De Gaulle was a renowned French general and statesman who was in charge of the Free French Forces during the Second World War. He was most known for being the figurehead of the Marquis, the French resistance groups during the war. Like the Germans, he also saw that armored divisions would be key to winning future battles after the First World War. In the second war, he was promoted to brigadier general and led one of the few successful armored counter-attacks when the Germans invaded. He served the government briefly and then ran fled to Britain when France was overrun. During the battle of Normandy, he pressed for the liberation of Paris and got what he wanted. After the war he founded his own political party, the Rally of the French People on April 14th, 1947. He retired from politics in 1950 after failing to win power, he was voted back to power as prime minister by the French Assembly during the May 1958 crisis. As President, he ended the political chaos that preceded his return to power. A new French currency was issued in January 1960 to control inflation and industrial growth was promoted. Although he initially supported French rule over Algeria due to its vast resources, he controversially decided to grant independence to that country, ending an expensive and unpopular war but leaving France divided and having to face down opposition from the white settlers and French military who had originally supported his return to power. He was very patriotic but immensely hated the US. He still saw France as a world power and felt it should not rely so much on other countries as it was such. Some people regard him as the most influential leader in modern French history.


Joseph Goebbels:





Goebbels was a German politician and the minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany. He was renowned for his great oratorical skills and he was fervently anti-semitist. Goebbels had a Phd from the Heidelberg University in 1921, he then went on to work as a journalist and later a bank clerk and caller on the stock exchange. He also wrote novels and plays, but had been rejected by publishers. Goebbels came into contact with the Nazi Party in 1923 during the French occupation of the Ruhr and became one of its members in 1924. He was appointed the regional party leader of Berlin. In this position, he put his propaganda skills to full use, combating the local socialists and communists with the help of Nazi papers and Sturmbaileung,SA. By 1928, he had risen in the party ranks to become one of its most prominent members. Goebbels rose into power in 1933 along with Hitler and the Nazi Party and was appointed Propaganda Minister. One of his first acts was the burning of books rejected by the Nazis. He exerted totalitarian control over the media, arts and information in Germany. Goebbels then organized attacks on German Jews, commencing with the one-day boycott of Jewish businessmen, doctors, and lawyers beginning on April 1, 1933. His attacks on the Jewish population culminated in the Kristallnacht(crystal night) assault of 1938, an open and unrestrained event unleashed by the Nazis all across Germany, in which synagogues were burned and hundreds of Jews were assaulted and murdered. Later, he produced a series of anti-Semitic films and used modern propaganda techniques to ideologically prepare the German people for aggressive warfare. During World War II, Goebbels increased his power and influence through shifting alliances with other Nazi leaders. By late 1943, the tide of the war was turning against the Axis , this only spurred him to intensify propaganda by urging the Germans to accept the idea of total war and mobilization. Goebbels remained with Hitler in Berlin to the very end and just hours after Hitler's suicide, Goebbels had his wife Magda killed their six young children and then committed suicide. Also, there were some rumors that Goebbels was made chancellor for two days on Hitler's orders. In the Hitler parodies, he is often referred to as skeletor due to his looks.


Philotas:

Philotas was Alexander the Great's most experienced and skilled general. When Alexander became king of Macedonia with Parmenion's support, him and his relations were rewarded with offices and commissions. Philotas was promoted, from a commander of a cavalry squadron to commander of the Companions. Philotas, though a highly capable officer, was widely seen as being snobbish. In the later part of 330 BC, Philotas was accused of conspiracy against Alexander. He had been subjected to similar reports previously, though the case against him in 330 was more serious as his accusers included the commander Coenus, who was married to Philotas' sister. Philotas was tried and convicted, after being tortured to reveal the extent of the conspiracy, then stoned or speared to death with other convicted plotters. The execution of Philotas made necssary the removal of Parmenion, who, while innocent of any plotting, was deemed unreliable once his son and heir had been put to death. Alexander sent assassins to kill Parmenion before the news of his son's execution reached him.