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On June 29, 1941, German alpine troops in Greece took part in a reenactment of the Battle of Thermopylae in front of Field Marshal Wilhelm List, at the very site where Leonidas and his men fought the Persians in 480 BC and where German forces had defeated Australian and New…
Reconstructed Inscription from the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, Rome, 2nd century CE
Rock-born Mithras wielding a Dagger and Torch, surrounded by signs of the Zodiac
“As for you… I have granted you to know Mithras the Father. Keep His commandments, thus securing for yourself an anchor-cable and safe-mooring all through your life, and, when you must leave the world, have every confidence that the god who guides you will be kindly disposed.”
A German soldier performs an exercise on the horizontal bar in full marching kit during a Reichswehr sports festival at the Berlin-Moabit Barracks — Georg Pahl (November 1934)
