Our Tirpitz steel stocks were slowly running out, so that further production of the coveted Tirpitz Damascus knives was out of the question without a
without replenishment was out of the question. The 41,000 tons of steel from the Tirpitz were completely scrapped in the 1950s and used as a sought-after raw material in a variety of other ways after the war.
and used as a sought-after raw material in many other ways after the war. The stock of our old source of supply had been used up. Only a
small museum near the town of Alta in Finnmark, in the far north of Norway, should still have a slab of Wodan Tirpitz armor steel.
still possessed. The success of the mission was uncertain for more than one reason.

Dave Wenger grew up with a fascination for medieval weapons and armor. One day, the boy decided to try his hand at making his own weapons. He flattened metal tubes his father had lying around, cut a point on them with a hacksaw, and used a few rolls of duct tape for the handle - and there it was, a feudal Japanese samurai sword.

We tell a completely different origin story of a barbershop with the Barber Story about the Barber House® company. Owner Dirk Schlobach did not undergo any barber training. He developed his motivation to open the store chain not from the craft, but in a sense from the other side of the counter or from the barber chair - as a customer. "Customer Experience", the foundation and constant incentive for continuous testing and improvement of what already appears to the customer as a perfect state.

This year, too, the persistent drought and the lack of precipitation impressively demonstrate the consequences of climate change. Due to the extreme conditions, the spruce, the leading tree in our region, carries hardly any resin and can thus hardly defend itself against the increasing proliferation of the bark beetle. In our homeland, the Bergisches Land, the spruce forests have almost without exception died and have already been cleared over large areas.

This year, too, the persistent drought and the lack of rainfall impressively demonstrate the consequences of climate change. Due to the extreme conditions, the spruce, the leading tree in our region, has hardly any resin left in it and can thus hardly defend itself against the increasing proliferation of the bark beetle.