TravelAsk.com on Instagram: "✨Top 8 Christmas Markets in Europe 2025–2026✨ 🇩🇪 Germany 📍 Cologne At the Cologne Cathedral Square and Rhine Promenade, November 18 – December 23, 2025 📍Dresden At the Pruncenallee Square and Old Town, November 28 – December 24, 2025 🇫🇷 France 📍 Strasbourg Place Kléber, November 26 – December 24, 2025 🇦🇹 Austria 📍 Vienna Rathausplatz (City Hall Square), November 14 – December 26, 2025 🇨🇿 Czech Republic 📍 Prague Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square, Novem

Terrifying History on Instagram: "In 1953, a significant wave of German prisoners of war (POWs) began returning from Soviet captivity, marking the end of a brutal chapter of post-WWII history. These men had been held for up to eight years in the notoriously harsh Gulag system, where estimates suggest nearly 1 million of the 3 million German POWs sent to the USSR perished from starvation, disease, and forced labor. The returns coincided with Stalin’s death and subsequent Soviet policy shifts, wit