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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…
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The Burke County Jail.
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As the Patriot defense of the State of Georgia fell apart in December 78 and Jan. 79, refugees ahead of the British Army spilled by the hundreds into neighboring South Carolina. The Georgia Backcountry was all the Patriot’s had left. As the British pushed an oath to the King on…
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Remembering Walter J. Marm, Jr., a retired US Army Officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War.
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On 14 November 1965, he was a platoon leader of 2nd Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). On that day, during the Battle of La Drang, 1st Lt. Marm demonstrated indomitable courage during a combat operation, his company was moving through the valley to…
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This photo, taken on December 8, 1943, in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, shows PFC Homer J. Finley Jr., (U.S. Marine Corps) and his four-legged comrade “Jack”, a Belgian Shepherd of the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon.
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Together, Homer and Jack landed on Bougainville and bravely fought against a relentless enemy. During that short period, they always looked after each other, which created a special bond between them, but Homer was then assigned to other duties, and the two Marines were separated.Jack was later wounded by a…
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Today we pay tribute to Tommy Norris, Michael Thornton, their families
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“I lost an eye and part of my head and brain and had some other bodily injuries. I have another eye. You just go on.” From April 10-13, 1972, Thomas “Tommy” Norris, a 28-year old native of Jacksonville, Florida, who was an Eagle Scout and had joined the Navy in…