Dr Philip W Blood
@HistorianBlood
Historian of Germany. Mapping empire to extermination — using historical GIS to uncover how colonial conquest was transformed into the Holocaust.
After a few false starts a new Substack page is up and running with part one of a short story. I hope friends and followers will join me in a journey through German history. killinggrounds.substack.com/p/dresden-augu…
Next podcast with Brigadier (retd) Matt Maer DSO MBE out tomorrow. Wherever you get your podcasts from.
#Trees - Any tree experts out there, does anyone know the kind and age of this tree?
Am 19.9.2025 findet in der Casa de Velázquez in Madrid der Workshop "Treatment of prisoners of war through the ages" statt, der u.a. vom #AKM organisiert wird. Weitere Infos unter: (PF) 👇👇👇 portal-militaergeschichte.de/sites/default/… #Militärgeschichte #POW
Regardless of the deal or not, Von der Leyen is an embarrassment to Europe and utterly incompetent.
The EU has admitted it doesn’t have the power to deliver on a promise to invest $600 billion in the United States economy, only hours after making the pledge at landmark trade talks in Scotland. ow.ly/LHo850Ww1yL
Over the next two weeks, I'll present a two-part series on the operational realities of the war in Ukraine and the strategic challenges for the rest of 2025. I look forward to the discussion; see you there!
Have you caught our latest episode? If not you'll be Von Cryin'!
🚂NEW EPISODE📷 Frank Sinatra & Trevor Howard star in ‘Von Ryan’s Express’, a P.O.W./Adventure hybrid that sees a battalion of escapees attempt to reach Switzerland. Join us where ever you get your pods! (Link in the post below👇) #Podcasts #Movies #WarFilms #Cinema #WW2
The EU-US trade deal benefits the United States but places a burden on the European Union. As @HoansSolo noted in his assessment of the agreement, it reveals more about Europe’s ongoing dependence on the United States as a key security provider than about the EU’s economic…
You can see from the face of highly experienced bureaucrat like Sabine Weyand (Director-General for Trade) how good the EU-US deal really is. By the way, at least 50% of the EU Commission delegation is German. This overrepresentation is staggering given that there are 27 members.
Sind Depressionen ansteckend? Mehrere Studien werfen Fragen auf fr.de/panorama/sind-…
"They turn our farms into rape centres": Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic. Horrific but essential reading. theguardian.com/global-develop…
On reflection, I enjoyed teaching more than academic research.
Share a piece of lore about your academic life
It’s an ad, but it made me chuckle…
Order here: ducon.space/passover-moses… More here: ducon.space/collection/tec…
The clown show continues 👇 "According to multiple senior sources in Afghanistan, the evacuation process was infiltrated by individuals with Taliban connections who exploited the system and got fighters to the UK" - The Telegraph