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The name Johann Reichhart might not be one synonymous with Nazi Germany but his ruthless killing streak made him one of the most feared members of the regime. Reichhart was born into a line of German executioners dating back eight generations. He got his start as a judicial executioner in 1928. Johann Reichhart took 3,165 lives…
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After all the suffering,death and destruction they caused there were several in the Nazi leadership ,and lower ranks , who were too cowardly to stand trial and killed themselves instead.In this summary I am excluded Hitler, Himmler,Goebbels and Goering because I have already done separate blogs on their suicides. Eduard Wirths , picture above (4 September…
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Like most other war WWII was not only fought by humans, animals also took part in the war. It was in a variety of roles how animals partook in the war efforts,sometimes for transport ,like the picture above of a soldier with a pack Reindeer, on slippery ice, near the tiny village of Nautsi, in northern…
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Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over a thousand compartments, each containing a hibernating Mexican free-tailed bat with a small, timed incendiary bomb attached. The bomb was designed to terrorize the people of Japan in a most unexpected way. Dr. Lytle S. Adams, like most Americans at…
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It can be argued that WWII never really ended or that the cold war wasn’t really all that cold. Immediately after WWII, in fact technically still during the War in the Pacific,Indonesia declared it’s independence triggering an armed conflict with the Dutch and British. Under pressure from radical and politicised pemuda (‘youth’) groups, Sukarno and Hatta proclaimed Indonesian…
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I do apologize for the title but to be honest I think it was the most suitable description. Despite all the murders they committed the staff ,both senior and junior, of the euthanasia centres ,SS and concentration camps still had a good time,having fun and being entertained. The picture above is a group portrait of T-4…
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Operation Foxley was a 1944 plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler, conceived by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Although detailed preparations were made, no attempt was made to carry out the plan. Historians believe the most likely date for an attempt would have been 13–14 July 1944, during one of Hitler’s visits to the Berghof. One of the first actual British plans…
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Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs seven times during the Second World War. It was just a matter of sheer luck that King George VI and Queen Elizabeth weren’t killed or very badly injured when the third raid took place on September 13th, 1940. The king and queen were in one of the rooms near…
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One of the most disturbing aspects of the Holocaust,aside from the obvious, is the fact that the victims were reduced to numbers. In the camps they were designated numbers. When they died they were a number in the overall number of victims and even after the war they were statistics. But of course they weren’t…
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