A tragic split
economist.com
Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No 3 in E Flat Major’ was completed in 1804. The piece was originally titled ‘Bonaparte’ but he vehmetly scratched that out once he learned that his hero had proclaimed himself Emporor Napoleon I.
Religion associates with Heaven an idea of equality which prevents the rich from being massacred by the poor.
- written in 1806 by Napoleon Bonaparte. He had a very utilitarian view of religion (see above). For instance, while in Egypt he played at respecting Islam, he called for a Palestine for the Jews, and reconciled with the Pope to have him attend Napoleon’s coronation. Later, however, he held the pope as a virtual prisoner while annexing Rome to the French empire. (via historical-nonfiction)
Unseen photographs of French Resistance fighters being executed by a Nazi firing squad on the outskirts of Paris in February 1941
The picture was taken by a German soldier who hid in the bushes on February 21, 1941 and secretly captured the executions at Mont-Valerien.
Despite more than 1,000 ‘hostages’ being killed at the site, it was thought no pictures existed as Nazis prohibited the taking of photographs for fear they would be used as anti-propaganda.
France’s most famous Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfield identified those being executed as members of an anti-Nazi network led by Missak Manouchian.
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