1939

miscellany relating to world war two in europe. the collection is selected for its psychological/sociological interest, not to promote or condone nazis and the holocaust. you are free to leave if you disapprove of the content.

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Nov 2

muslimswearingthings:

Dressed in black and a humble smile, Albanian Muslim Bahrije Seiti Borici holds the Certificate of Honor awarded to her family - one of 70 known Muslim families (62 of which were Albanian) who risked their own safety to protect Jewish families from persecution during the Holocaust.

(Articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, Book: Besa: Muslims Who Saves Jews in World War II, by Norman H. Gershman)

Oct 17

the-holocaust:

April 15, 1945
Germany

Survivors attack a former guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

(via the-holocaust)

Oct 16

Two ex-Wehrmacht soldiers eating grain to augment their rations, August 1946.

(photo by Walter Sanders)

the-holocaust:

One page of a journal kept by Klaus Peter (later Pierre) Feigl, an Austrian/German Jewish refugee child living in France during World War II.

The page at the left includes pasted in photographs of the diarist’s parents, Ernst and Agnes Feigl, who perished during the war. The page at the right is dated “New Year 1943.”

(via the-holocaust)

The Waffen-SS (German pronunciation: [ˈvafən.ɛs.ɛs], Armed SS) was a multi-ethnic and multi-national militaryforce of the Third Reich.^[1] It constituted the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel (“Protective Squadron”) or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside the Wehrmacht Heer regular army, but was never formally part of it. It was Adolf Hitler’s will that the Waffen-SS never be integrated into the army, it was to remain the armed wing of the Party and to become an elite police force once the war was won.

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Oct 15

office23commonplace:

German prisoners of war, November 1944.

warispeace:

Today in History: On October 14, 1943, prisoners of the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland led an uprising that resulted in the death of eleven SS officers and camp guards. 300 of the 600 prisoners were able to escape from the camp after the uprising, although only 50 would survive until the end of the war. The remaining 300 were promptly killed at the camp was closed.

Oct 14

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In September 1940 the bombing began in earnest. For a week the RAF pounded the city: “Not only had British aircraft demonstrated their ability to reach the city, but they had shown themselves able to bomb almost at will and take the lives of Berlin’s civilians. The myth of the capital’s inviolability — which had been shared by all sections of the city’s society — had been irrevocably shattered.” Yes, the city had ample air-raid shelters and “three enormous flak towers,” making it “the best defended and best-protected city of the war,” but that was hardly enough. Then in March 1943 the RAF delivered “the largest tonnage of high explosives that had yet been dropped in the air war — a payload of over 900 tons that was twice the amount the Luftwaffe had dropped on London in their largest raids of the Blitz in 1941.” One Berliner wrote in her diary:

“The city and all the western and southern suburbs are on fire. The air is smoky, sulphur-yellow. Terrified people are stumbling through the streets with bundles, bags, household goods, tripping over fragments and ruins.”

” Roger Moorhouse’s “Berlin at War,” reviewed by Jonathan Yardley

Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi?

dailybrainfood:

An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one:Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio’s 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments.

Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a group that calls itself Wiking, whose members are devoted to re-enacting the exploits of an actual Nazi division, the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, which fought mainly on the Eastern Front during World War II. Iott’s participation in the Wiking group is not mentioned on his campaign’s website, and his name and photographs were removed from the Wiking website.

While I most certainly don’t agree with the politician’s views, it should be pointed out that reenactment does not necessarily equal belief. Yes, war reenactments are problematic and there may often be a correlation wrt sociopolitical beliefs—that I won’t deny—but it seems that the question should not be, “why is he dressed as a nazi,” but “why is that what he wants to reenact?”

(via robot-heart-politics)

1939

miscellany relating to world war two in europe. the collection is selected for its psychological/sociological interest, not to promote or condone nazis and the holocaust. you are free to leave if you disapprove of the content. (run by midnight cowboy.)

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Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi?

miscellany relating to world war two in europe. the collection is selected for its psychological/sociological interest, not to promote or condone nazis and the holocaust. you are free to leave if you disapprove of the content.

(run by midnight cowboy.)