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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is just unfathomable how many of the most evil and vile war criminals escaped justice. It is something the German government and other European and American governments should be deeply,deeply ashamed off because they escaped under their watch. Gustav Franz Wagner (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: After the February Strike of 1941, in Amsterdam,the sculptor and draftsman Cor van Teeseling joined a Resistance group that printed and distributed the illegal Communist newspaper De Waarheid (Lit. The Truth). Six months later, the Germans arrested him. On 10 November 1941, the death sentence was pronounced against him.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It can be argued that the deadliest weapon during WWII was propaganda,below are some examples of WWII propaganda from the allied forces and the axis powers. ? “Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people… Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: November 20 marked the 77th anniversary of the trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg. Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: +++++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++++ Surgeon General Shirō Ishii ( June 25, 1892 – October 9, 1959) was a Japanese army medical officer, microbiologist and the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army involved in forced and frequently lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War and WWII. https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/07/01/unit-731-japanese-wwii-experiments/…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I was actually doing research on a Sobibor victim called Ben Ali Libi which was the stage name of Michel Velleman , a Dutch Jewis magician who died in Sobibor on July 2nd 1943, But although there is a lot of mention of Ben Ali Libi there is actually…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Abba Kovner was a somewhat controversial figure and by today’s standards he could be considered a terrorist, but as the saying goes “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” But considering what he witnessed one can not blame him for some of his actions after the war. Abba…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Wola massacre was the systematic killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 people in the Wola district of Poland’s capital city Warsaw by German troops and collaborationist forces during the early phase of the Warsaw Uprising. From 5 to 12 August 1944, tens of thousands of Polish civilians along…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On March 24 2015 Germanwings flight 9525 took off from Barcelona airport headed for Dusseldorf in Germany. But the Airbus A320 never made it to its final destination. Shortly after the plane reached its assigned cruising altitude, it suddenly began a rapid descent. Moments later the doomed passenger jet…
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