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THE CURIOUS SURRENDER OF WILHELM DEGE. THE LAST GERMAN SOLDIER TO SURRENDER.
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The surrender of Wilhelm Dege’s command is a little curious story to be told. At the time of Germany surrender, Dege and his command weren’t informed about it at all. It was only months later, on 3 September 1945, that a small Norwegian boat, the Blasel, appeared off the Rijpfjord…
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This is the craziest my girlfriend have ever witnessed while she was in the waiting area of a hospital’s emergency room
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It wasn’t me waiting, but my girlfriend who happened to be in the ER of her hospital when Weird Woman came in once again. Weird Woman was (in)famous in the emergency room: she was a frequent flyer because every now and then she felt the compulsion of inserting objects in…
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This is a photo of Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake typhus epidemic in Stalowa Wola (Nazi occupied Poland), 1943.
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This is a photo of Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake typhus epidemic in Stalowa Wola (Nazi occupied Poland), 1943.Here is an excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times in 2006 about how Lazowski risked the Nazi death penalty in order to carry out…
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Rape by Russian soldiers in Ukraine is the latest example of a despicable wartime crime that spans the globe
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Shocking images from Bucha and elsewhere in Ukraine revealed what many suspected, that Russian soldiers were apparently committing war crimes. An image of dead naked women under a blanket on the road photographed by Mikhail Palinchak 12½ miles (20 kilometers) outside of Kyiv was tweeted by the Ministry of Defense…
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Why was Vajna’s execution significant, and it symbolize for the people of Hungary in history
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Gabor Vajna was a Hungarian politician who had been active in far-right and anti-Semitic politics since the 1920s. He joined the Arrow Cross Party in 1935 and rose to become one of its leaders. During World War II, Vajna served as Minister of the Interior in the Arrow Cross government,…
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Sara Janse Geldof – the last woman executed in Holland.
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The last woman executed in Holland, after being sentenced to death by a civilian court, was 33 year old Sara Janse Geldof, who was publicly strangled at Middelburg on Monday the 24th of September 1838. Male criminals were hanged at this time but women were strangled at the stake for…
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Feb. 02, 1973 – Ugandan Executes Eleven Criminals
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Ugandan Executions Shock Africa: Twelve alleged criminals – eleven of them said to be ”guerrillas” and the twelfth an armed robber – were executed in Uganda on Saturday (Feb 11). Nothing novel in that -except that the executions were in public, and the victims stripped naked before their deaths. Neighbouring…
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Execution Of Nuremberg 1946
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The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials. Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel,…
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150 years from now, none of us reading this post today will be alive.
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70 percent to 100 percent of everything we are fighting over right now will be totally forgotten. Underline the word, TOTALLY. If we go back memory lane to 150 years before us, that will be 1872, none of those that carried the world on their heads then are alive today.…
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In the year 1882, a seemingly ordinary photograph was taken, capturing the innocence and curiosity of a young child named Albert Einstein.
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Little did the world know at that time that this unassuming three-year-old boy would go on to reshape the very fabric of our understanding of the universe. Born on March 14, 1879, in the German city of Ulm, young Albert Einstein exhibited early signs of an inquisitive mind. The photograph…