World War 2
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Dear Simone Frajermauer you were 3 when you were murdered in Auschwitz. It was August 3 1944. It was 24 years before I was born. I never met you but yet you broke my heart. Now on this day July 11,2021 your eyes stared into mine and they have a question for me? They ask me”Have…
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On June 18, 1940, Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill both gave speeches that instilled hope in the darkest hour. Some of their speeches of defiance still ring true today. The Appeal of 18 June—Charles de Gaulle (Translated) The appeal is often seen as the origin of the French Resistance to the German occupation during…
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Wilhelm Kube was a devout Christian as well as a zealous Nazi. Those 2 aspects of his life clashed a few times during WWII. In July 1941, just after the German occupation of the western parts of the Soviet Union, he was appointed Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien (now known as Belarus). As Generalkommissar he was in…
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World War II ended in May 1945 in Europe and August 1945 in the Pacific, but the effects of the war was felt long afterwards. It can even be argued that the effects can even be noticed today. The picture above is of Soviet soldiers with lowered standards of the defeated Nazi forces during the Victory…
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Germany and Italy weren’t the only countries with Fascists parties. Several European countries had National Socialist Fascists partyies, for example The Netherlands had the NSB. In Belgium the Rexist Party(aka Rex), led by Léon Degrelle, won about 10 percent of the seats in the parliament in 1936. After failing 3 times to pass his final…
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Although the US stayed initially neutral during WWII,it had been making preparations for an eventual war with the Axis powers. Worsening relations with the Axis powers prompted President Roosevelt to order all German assets in the U.S. frozen on June 14, 1941. On June 16 he ordered the withdrawal of German and Italian consular staffs…
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More so than any other extermination or concentration camp is Auschwitz associated with the mass extermination of Jews. However it did not start of that way. At the beginning Auschwitz was a relatively ‘small’ camp and the first prisoners were Polish political prisoners, most of them were Catholic and only 20 or so were Jews.…
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In April 1945 the allied troops forced the citizens of Neunburg,Germany to face up to some of the atrocities ordered and committed by their elected government. They were made to look at bodies of Jewish and other slave laborers in woods outside Neunberg, where they were marched from a Nazi Gestapo camp and where thy…
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So many involved in the Nazi atrocities did get off so lightly or escaped punishment altogether. How the judges in the war crimes trials came to some of the sentences or lack thereof has always been a puzzle to me. Additionally there were also many how fled to countries where they knew they would face…
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