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An Austrian journalist named Mr. Bruno Heilig travelled to England in 1938, spoke with the authority of one who worked for thirty years at his profession as editor or foreign correspondent of leading newspapers in Austria, Germany, Hungary and the Balkans. For up to five years preceding the collapse of the Weimar Republic he was in Berlin, at first on the staff of the Vossische Zeitung and then later as correspondent of the Vienna Wiener Tag and the Prague Prager Presse. The succeeding five years he then spent in Vienna, where he was leader writer and foreign editor of Der Wiener Tag and the influential Monday paper Der Morgen. So twice had had the opportunity of following the development of modern tyranny. More intimate is the acquaintance he made of it as prisoner for thirteen months inside the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald, a life described by him in his book Men Crucified. Why it was the German Republic Fell first appeared in the English magazine Land & Liberty.
Here is some information on Europe you may find useful:
The first Europeans: 500,000 - 10,000 years ago
Early man of the species named Homo erectus - penetrated to the western extremity of Europe roughly 500,000 years ago. Fossil remains from this time are known as far west as England.
From about 230,000 years ago the human inhabitants of Europe, and descendants of Homo erectus, were sufficiently different in brain size and physique and were classed as an early form of Homo sapiens. Known as Neanderthal man, this species prospers for many thousands of years. But the Neanderthalers leave very little trace of themselves other than their stone tools, their bones and the bones of their animal prey (though a recently discovered Neanderthal flute suggests to us some cultural life). They are extinct by about 35,000 years ago.
Modern man - they are anatomically similar to humans today - they arrived relatively late in Europe. But the continent provides the most extensive evidence of the early culture of our own species of Homo sapiens.
The Venus of Willendorf from about 25,000 years ago and the cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux from some 15,000 years ago are merely the most famous examples of a vigorous palaeolithic art found in many parts of Europe. Similarlysome of the exposed plains of eastern Europe contain traces of the earliest known free-standing dwellings - circular huts, semi-sunken, with stones and tusks supporting some form of superstructure.
Indo-Europeans: from 2000 BC
Tribes speaking Indo-European languages were living as nomadic herdsmen, became well established by about 2000 BC in the steppes which stretch from the Ukraine eastwards, to the regions north of the Black Sea and then the Caspian.
Over the coming centuries they steadily infiltrated the most appealing regions to the south and west - occasionally in something much like open warfare, and invariably no doubt with violence. But the process is much more gradual than our modern notions of an invading force.
When the plague ravaged Venice in the late medieval period, many many people believed the disease was spread by what they thought were vampires that were chewing on their death shrouds. Archaeologists working on a mass grave of plaque victims have found some evidence for this belief: a skeleton with a brick placed inside the mouth. Now this might sound strange to modern ears brought up on fiction such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, but in sixteenth century Venician people believed a brick in the mouth would stop a vampire chewing on the shrouds, and thus help stop the disease. There is a photograph circulating the internet which is an excellent picture of the excavated skull and brick and, according to their article "The belief in vampires probably came about because blood is sometimes expelled from the mouths of the dead, causing the shroud to sink inwards and tear."
