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Bur.ned body at Gardenlegen, Germany 1945
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Gardelegen massacre The Gardelegen massacre was a massacre perpetrated by the locals (Volkssturm, Hitlerjugend and local firefighters) of the northern German town of Gardelegen, with direction from the SS, near the end of World War II. On April 13, 1945, on the Isenschnibbe estate near the town, the troops forced…
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Israel justifies arrests of Palestinians after images showing stripped men detained in Gaza
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Israel responded to the fierce criticism provoked by degrading photographs and videos showing dozens of naked men, some of them blindfolded, captured by the Israeli army on December 7. The government took responsibility for the mass arrests carried out by the army in the Gaza Strip the previous day. This…
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RESPECT TO THE ONE AND ONLY SS SOLDIER WHO STOPPED AND SAID: “THIS IS IMMORAL, I CAN’T DO THIS
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In 1947, in Poland, communist authorities began a series of trials of people accused of participating in mass murder at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The second of these trials, confusingly called “The First Auschwitz Trial” (Pierwszy Proces Oświęcimski), involved 40 defendants – most of them highly placed officers and administrators…
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The hyena of Auschwitz
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The atrocities committed by Irma Grese are well documented and truly terrifying. As an SS guard, she was responsible for overseeing the brutal treatment of prisoners in the concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. She was known for her cruelty and sadism and her victims included women, children and…
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Cyclocosmia (Trapdoor Spider)Also known as The Chinese Hourglass Spider, cyclocosmia latusicosta, are a type of trapdoor spider.
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They are ambush predators that patiently wait for their unaware victim to scurry past their lair before they strike and eat them as soon as they detect motion. If threatened, they burrow themselves headfirst and back up plugging the hole with their abdomen. Their backside looks a lot like a…
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Last word of Alexander the greatTHE D.E.A.T.H. MOMENT OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
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His death is still shrouded in mystery. However, the story of this great emperor’s death is still being passed on unceasingly. The story goes that he realized that death was coming and that he would not be able to return to his homeland in time. He told his officers: “I…
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Bodo League Massacre
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Bodo League massacre was a massacre committed by the South Korean government in 1950. South Korea’s then president Syngman Rhee ordered the execution of suspected communists (people related to either the Bodo League or the South Korean Workers Party). An estimated 100,000+ South Koreans were killed and US, Australian, and…
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Freedomite Movement.
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The Freedomite movement consists of a split-off of the Doukhobors, a community of Spiritual Christians began a mass migration from Russia to Canada in 1898. The Freedomite movement first appeared in 1902 in Saskatchewan, and later in the Kootenay and Boundary Districts of British Columbia. Freedomites began to divide from Doukhobors in 1902 in Saskatchewan, Canada, self-named as “God’s people” and Svobodniki (Russian:…
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This bodies were left hanging for six hours
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The Semiramis Hotel attack in Damascus. On Sunday the 26th of September 1976 four Palestinian guerrillas from “The Black June” terror group opposed to Syria’s intervention in Lebanon, seized a hotel and 90 hostages at the Hotel Semiramis in downtown Damascus. The government reported that the leader of the guerrillas…
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Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman.
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Seacole was born in Kingston to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a “doctress”. In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. In 2004, she was voted the greatest black Briton in a survey conducted in 2003 by the black heritage website Every Generation .…