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In a graphic scene, a group of detainees lie on the ground. Some are naked. An Israeli soldier can be seen stomping on the head of a Palestinian man, who covers his face with his bound hands. TEL AVIV — Several videos have emerged on social media appearing to show…
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On ThisDay 21 September 1942, ‘The Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto’ ended. During this 2 month period over 265,000 Jews were crammed into sealed freight trains and deported to the Treblinka death camp, where they were murdered. Recalling the Great Deportation, Holocaust survivor Chaim Kaplan recounts in his diary:…
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Nordhausen was a sub-camp of the concentration camp Dora-Mittelbau. This camp was created by the SS for prisoners too weak or too ill to work in the tunnels of Dora on the fabrication of the German V1 and V2 rockets. Following the Nazi terminology, Nordhausen was a “Vernichtungslager”, an extermination…
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Photo series – Intimate moments of soldiers during the world wars Until now, Michael Stokes has published eight books on a similar topic: photographs of men, sometimes with a slight sexual, erotic charge. He is also planning two books for 2020, one of which is entitled My Naked Soldier and is a…
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Today marks the 71st anniversary of The Liberation of Dachau. Oklahoma has strong ties to that day through the incredible efforts of the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th Infantry Division was formed in 1923 from elements of the National Guards of four states; Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Following…
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One of the most horrific terms in history was used by Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant, or those who should be killed outright: Lebensunwertes Leben, or “life unworthy of life”. The phrase was applied to the mentally impaired and later to the “racially inferior,” or…
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Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in northern Germany was liberated on 15th April 1945. Bergen-Belsen was initially established in 1940 as a prisoner of war camp for Allied prisoners. In 1943 it became a Nazi concentration camp to which, the SS deported an ever-increasing number of inmates from Nazi camps further…
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Helga Goebbels was the eldest daughter of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, and his wife Magda. She was born in 1932 and tragically died in 1945 at the age of 12. In the final days of World War II, as Soviet forces approached Berlin, Magda…