October 2016
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Even amidst the Horrors of WWII there was still some time for compassion. A wounded Australian soldier being helped by a local during World War II. (Papua New Guinea, 1942) A Ukrainian woman, giving water to a captured Soviet soldier. (Ukraine, 1941) A soldier sharing his food and water with children. (Saipan, 1944) American
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“I hanged those ten Nazis… and I am proud of it… I wasn’t nervous…. A fellow can’t afford to have nerves in this business…. I want to put in a good word for those G.I.s who helped me… they all did swell…. I am trying to get them a promotion…. The way I look at
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With all the horrible stories we have heard about Auschwitz it does happen that every once in a while we come across a more ‘lighthearted’ tale. By chance I came across the story of Roosje Glaser. Even before Nazi racial laws turned her into a wanted person in her native Netherlands, Roosje Glaser had limited
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On 6 October 1940 every civil servant working in the Netherlands was given two forms. Form A declared that you were not Jewish, and thus Aryan, and form B – which had to be filled in in duplicate – was a declaration that you were Jewish. You had to sign one of the two forms
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Dachau concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany,intended to hold political prisoners. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany.Opened in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose
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Originally published Oct 4,2016 It is strange how something can be forgotten and yet be vividly remembered. This disaster had slipped my mind but yet when I was reminded of it the images became very clear again. Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Bijlmer disaster in Amsterdam. At Sunday evening October 4, 1992, a
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In case you are wondering if the headline of this article is a typo, it is not, Field Marshall Milch was Jewish. Milch was born in Wilhelmshaven, the son of Anton Milch, a Jewish pharmacist who served in the Imperial German Navy, and Clara Milch, née Vetter. Due to his Jewish ancestry, according to the Nazi
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Today marks the 74th anniversary of the first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany.Making it the 1st official man made object to reach space, making space exploration a fact. However the Nazi’s weren’t really interested in space exploration for the betterment of humankind. Test Stand VII(P-7) was the
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Today marks the 77th anniversary of the sinking HMS Curacao and it wasn’t sunk by the Germans or Japanese or other Axis powers but by one of the most famous cruise liners HMS Queen Mary. On the morning of 2 October 1942, Curacoa rendezvoused north of Ireland with the ocean liner Queen Mary, who was
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