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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Dec 6

Krüger, Rudolf: Oberfeldwebel, Ritterkreuz (RK), Heer, Deutschland

Dec 5

Two soldiers of the Wehrmacht on guard in December 1941 to the west of Moscow

Dec 4

Arrival of new recruits in Berlin(?), 1936

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Doobybrain:

A Town Full of Twins

In Cândido Godói, Brazil, a town of about 80 households has 44 sets of twins, a rate that is nearly 1000% above the global average. Nobody can quite explain it for sure, but National Geographic is following one man’s quest for answers in what he believes is a continuation of Nazi Germany twin experiments from escaped Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele.

Joseph Mengele was known as the Angel of Death and spent years doing experiments with twins in Germany to help build a master race for Adolf Hitler. When he escaped and disappeared to South America, twins started popping up in locations where he was spotted which has led at least one person to believe that Mengele’s experiments have actually become successful.

Dec 3

Wikipedia: Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld (14 July 1918 – 22 March 1944) was a Luftwaffe night fighter flying ace of aristocratic descent during World War II. Oberleutnant Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld was credited with 51 aerial victories, all of them claimed in nocturnal combat missions.

He and his crew, Oberfeldwebel Josef Renette and Unteroffizier Kurt Röber, were killed in a flying accident on 22 March 1944 on a routine flight from Parchim to Athies-sous-Laon. Above Belgium, they seem to have encountered a bad weather zone with low clouds and a dense snowstorm and it was assumed that the aircraft hit the high Ardennes ground after being forced to fly lower because of ice forming on the wings. The exact circumstances of this flight may never be known; the Bf 110 G-4 C9+CD (W.Nr. 720 010) crashed into the Ardennes mountains near St. Hubert where the completely burned-out wreck was found the following day.

Dec 2