War Crimes
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++++contains some graphic images++++++++ After the liberation of Dachau on the 29th of April 1945 a number of SS guards were tortured and executed by US troops,without a trial. Many people refer to this as a war crime and technically it was, but the horrors these troops had witnessed was beyond imagination, The brutality was…
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I am always surprised how so many evil men live to an old age. The crimes they committed don’t seem to affect them in the slightest. But yet so many fled after the war, indicating they knew they had done wrong. For innocent people don’t run away. Laszlo Csatary, While serving as a senior police…
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Dachau is a small picturesque town in in Upper Bavaria not too far away from Munich, but despite its pretty and even fairy tale like appearance, it will be forever associated with death and destruction. The Dachau concentration camp was opened on March 22 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the Nazi…
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Born in Berlin in 1907, Ohlendorf joined the SA in 1925 and the SS in 1926. In 1936 he joined the SD as an economic adviser and from 1939 to 1945 he served as the chief of the Reich Security Main Office’s Amt III, which studied the results of government measures on the German population.…
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What a tremendous feeling it must have been to accuse and identify those who committed awful crimes, without the fear of retaliation. Probably it wasn’t even out of revenge but with a feeling of getting justice done. On the other side how panicking it must have been for those criminals when the finger was pointed…
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It wasn’t only men who committed heinous crimes in the concentration camps . There were many women who participated in torture and murder and often they enjoyed it. Some of the women were more evil then their male counterparts. Below are some of the lesser known female guards and supervisors Carmen Mory The Black…
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Sinfra was a cargo ship built in 1929 as Fernglen by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo, Norway, for a Norwegian shipping company. The ship was sold to Swedish owners in 1934 and to a French company in 1939, on the last occasion having her name changed to Sinfra. Sinfra was confiscated by German authorities in 1942, and used by them in the Mediterranean. On 19 October 1943, Sinfra was bombed…
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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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The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was a division of the Nazi Waffen-SS during World War II. It was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded by the Waffen-SS. Das Reich served during the invasion of France and took part in several major battles on the Eastern Front, including in the Battle of Prokhorovka against…
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