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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HERO’S
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The smallest artefact can grow into an extremely long trail and important story. This Ulster Volunteer Force lapel badge from 1913 belonged to the husband of the cook for Lord and Lady Smiley of Drumalis in Larne.He farmed a local farm known as Droagh Farm near Larne and he was…
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The Human Problem: The High Cost of War Paid by Women
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“Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm forward. Kill! You gallant soldiers of…
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An emaciated female Jewish survivor of a death march lies in an American military field hospital in Volary, Czechoslovakia.
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Pictured is twenty-six year old Elizabeth Klein. The Helmbrechts death march was one of hundreds of forced marches that occurred near the end of the war. As Allied troops closed in on Germany from all sides, the prisoners in concentration camps and slave labor commandos were evacuated to camps further…
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Mass R-p- in Europe by Allied soldiers after World War 2
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The greatest crimes against women and Europeans in history, was the mass rape of the European women after the Liberal-Communist victory in 1945. It would be easy for you to toss this newsletter aside and pickup more pleasant or amusing reading The rapists were mainly Soviet and US soldiers. They…
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Einstein’s letter to Curie when she was facing relentless attacks on her personal life, saying that she “tarnished the good name” of her late husband, Pierre Curie.
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She was denied a seat in the French Academy of Sciences in January 1911 for reasons that probably included gender and religion.Prague, 23 November 1911Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie:Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.But I am so enraged by the base manner in…
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On This Day, September 29, 1941, the massacre at Babi Yar began.
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Over the course of two days, 33,771 Jews were murdered in the Babi Yar ravine, located on the outskirts of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine (USSR). A week after the Germans captured Kiev, they decided to massacre the city’s Jews. The Jews were ordered to assemble in the morning for…
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An Australian soldier driving Japanese Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi to the Wom Airstrip, New Guinea for the formal New Guinea surrender ceremony, 13 Sep 1945
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Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi commanded the Japanese forces on New Guinea from November 1942 until the end of the Second World War. He took command of the Eighteenth Army after the death of Lieutenant General Tomitaro Horii on 23 November 1942, and inherited an army that was already in retreat.…
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Anna war crime : 12 August 1944: The Massacre of St. Anna di Stazzema.
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Sant’Anna di Stazzema is a locality in the province of Lucca, in Tuscany, sadly known for being the site of one of the worst na#ifascist massacre in Western Europe during the Second World War. Introduction note:The na#i/na#ifascist reprisals in Italy are less known to English-speaking readers than Oradour sur Glane’s,…
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Lieutenant William Calley was the officer in charge of Charlie Company
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Lieutenant William Calley was the officer in charge of Charlie Company, a unit of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Americal Division, during the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. The My Lai massacre was a mass murder of hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, mostly women,…
