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More of our men died–world history and facts
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“More of our men died—so fast that you couldn’t keep track of their numbers,” wrote Tony Acevedo, an American soldier fighting in World War II. “We kept on marching.” On this day in 1945, Tony and members of the US Army’s 275th Infantry Regiment were captured by the Germans and…
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The Holocaust’s Most Vicious Ki11ers
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During the Holocaust, one group of killers stood out as more vicious, murderous, and bloodthirsty than all others. The Ustasha of Yugoslavia was a Muslim-Catholic alliance of Nazi killers so beastly that even Nazi officials in Berlin were horrified. The Ustasha and three related crack divisions of Arab-Nazi Waffen SS…
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Battle of Balikpapan (1945)
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The Battle of Balikpapan was the concluding stage of Operation Oboe, the campaign to liberate Japanese-held British and Dutch Borneo. The landings took place on 1 July 1945. The Australian 7th Division, composed of the 18th, 21st and 25th Infantry Brigades, with a small number of Netherlands East Indies KNIL troops, made an amphibious landing, codenamed Operation Oboe Two, a few miles north of Balikpapan. The…
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They Shall not Grow Old is the most authentic presentation of life in the trenches I have seen.
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Jackson’s use of recorded interviews with vetetans alongside computer enhanced archival footage of the War forces the viewer to witness the horror faced by those men. Shrapnel, bullets, explosions, mud, maggots, and rats were a part of daily life. It showed the War for what if was, a senselessv conflict…
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A HISTORICAL FACT OF DAILY LIFE THAT MOST PEOPLE WON’T BELIEVE ACTUALLY HAPPENED
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Let’s be real for a moment: the Middle Ages were a wild time, especially when it came to medicine. I mean, we’re talking about a period where if you had haemorrhoids (piles), you weren’t just handed some soothing cream and sent on your way. Oh no! You were in for…
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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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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…