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On 27 May 1942, 168 prisoners were shot at the execution wall in the courtyard of Block 11 in Auschwitz I.
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They belonged to the group of Poles were arrested by Germans on 16 April 1942 in the Artists’ Cafe in Krakow and deported to Auschwitz on 24 and 25 April. The prisoners were taken to the courtyard four at a time and shot. The following sentence was uttered: “For the…
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Poland Women naked, before their execution
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Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They show a completely different perspective, which makes them unique when dealing with visual material of the Holocaust and the Holocaust as…
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Johann Pauls Execution
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Johann Pauls (born 9 February 1908 in Danzig – died 4 July 1946 in Gdańsk), also John Pauls, was a German SS-Oberscharführer in Stutthof concentration camp. Career Pauls was the third child of Johann August Pauls and Minna Steingräber. He joined the NSDAP, along with the SS, in the Free State of Danzig on…
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1941: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
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On this date in 1941, Soviet partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was hanged by the Wehrmacht for sabotaging buildings behind German lines near Moscow. A statue of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya stands vigil over Moscow’s World War II-era Partizanskaya metro station. Image used with permission. One of the most famous Soviet war heroines and the…
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We hope you enjoy your Fourth of July, but maybe not this much (resharing for the holiday)…
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After a Pe Ell Fourth of July parade (year not known), a woman identified as “Crazy Mary,” as she was remembered, and Anna Damitz sit on the porch while Clancy Damitz threatens to bury Troy Conn and another man who have passed out in the yard after festivities. The unknown…
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The Battle of Kostiuchnówka (July 4th – 6th, 1916) was a major battle on the Eastern Front between the Polish Legions and the Russian army.
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The village of Kostiuchnówka, located in the Volhynia region close to the front line that had been established in 1915, was filled with Polish legionnaires. The Polish section of the front line was about ten kilometers long. Polish positions reached far behind the front line. The “Piłsudski’s Redoubt” was a…
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At the horrific battle of Ap Nha Mat on 5 December 1965, Sergeant Oliver Fugere and soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, fought off a Viet Cong force four times greater than their own.
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Over a six-hour period, Sgt Fugere directed his platoon in the fight, personally slayed numerous VC, and assisted in the evacuation of his wounded. When the platoon ran out of ammo, he made trip after trip stealing weapons off the dead Vietnamese for his soldiers to use. When snipers wreaked…
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The Romanticization of the Dead Female Body in Victorian and Contemporary Culture
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In “The Philosophy of Composition,” Edgar Allan Poe writes the infamous line: “the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world” (548). This problematic contention, which equates female death with poetic inspiration, is one of the hallmarks of the arts during the Victorian…
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The Voice of a Fallen Comrade!
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By Dr. Ben Guarken Chiman JUBA, South Sudan When I am gone: please pick up my gun if you can, Reload it and point it forward, be like a lion, be like an Eagle. Free Wau, free Malakal, free Jebel Boma, free Tonj, and free Torit. But be smart, negotiate…
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Respect to Joseph Lee Galloway ‘He is the only civilian to receive a medal from the U.S. Army for valor during the Vietnam War’
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“Joseph Lee Galloway was an American news correspondent and columnist. He is the only civilian to receive a medal from the U.S. Army for valor during the Vietnam War—a Bronze Star with Combat V for rescuing wounded soldiers under fire in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965. A veteran…