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Lest We Forget... The fighting Irish Lion Lt. Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne DSO and 3 Bars, 1 SAS Regiment, was a courageous and brilliant special forces soldier, and one of the most outstanding leaders of the Second World War. From the Royal Ulster Rifles, he volunteered for the Commandos and saw action in Syria, before joining David Stirling’s fledgling unit Special Air Service Brigade. Paddy Mayne’s achievements from Troop Commander to Commanding Officer of 1 SAS Regiment reads like something from a Boy’s Own comic. In North Africa the raids he led on Axis airfields destroyed over one hundred aircraft on the ground. In Sicily and Italy, he and his men were first into the fray destroying coastal defences and artillery positions in advance of the main assaults. In France, they operated ruthlessly behind enemy lines, and in Germany they were at the tip of the spear that led the armoured charge into the Nazi heartland. For his leadership, courage and complete disregard for danger Lt. Col....

Decision for war . In the immediate aftermath of the assassination on 28 June of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the heir to the Habsburg throne) in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, the British newspapers denounced the Serbian nationalist assassin, Gavrilo Princip, and were generally sympathetic to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The newspapers blamed the Kingdom of Serbia for the crime, with rhetoric against "fanatics", "dangerous forces" and "reckless agitators". These responses were broadly shared across the political spectrum, with Liberal and Conservative papers expressing their shock and dismay. But by 27 July, press opinion had turned against Austria-Hungary. The national press divided along party lines, with Conservative papers stressing the obligation to support France, while Liberal papers insisted Britain had no such commitment and should remain neutral. As Germany and Russia became the central players in t...

British entry into World War I The United Kingdom entered World War I on 4 August 1914, when King George V declared war after the expiry of an ultimatum to the German Empire. The official explanation focused on protecting Belgium as a neutral country; the main reason, however, was to prevent a French defeat that would have left Germany in control of Western Europe. The Liberal Party was in power with prime minister H. H. Asquith and foreign minister Edward Grey leading the way. The Liberal cabinet made the decision, although the party had been strongly anti-war until the last minute. The Conservative Party was pro-war. The Liberals knew that if they split on the war issue, they would lose control of the government to the Conservatives. For much of the 19th century, Britain pursued a foreign policy later known as splendid isolation, which sought to maintain the balance of pow...

Ukrainian city remembers slain Jews on Holocaust anniversary Ceremony in city of Lviv, once home to the third-largest Jewish community in prewar Poland, comes amid efforts to preserve memory of murdered population LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, commemorated the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population by Nazi Germany and honored those working today to preserve what they can of that vanished world. City authorities honored recipients during a ceremony Sunday with 75 sculptured glass keys modeled by an American artist on an old metal synagogue key that she found at a Lviv market. The commemorations, including a concert amid the ruins of synagogues, come amid a larger attempt to revive the suppressed memories of the Jews who were once an integral part of life in the region. “God forbid our city once suffered such a misfortune,” Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said at the ceremony. “Today we c...

The corpses of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci, and three other executed fascists are shown here in Milan's Piazzale Lorento after they were all shot with machine guns by Italian communist partisans on April 28th, 1945. Mussolini's body is the one hanging second from the left, and his mistress is directly in the middle. The bodies were originally left in a heap for the public to spit on, urinate on, kick, shoot at, beat, and pelt vegetables on. The bodies, especially Mussolini's, were  mutilated by the people, and eventually they had to be hanged upside down with meat hooks on the metal girder framework of a half-built Standard Oil service station. These death of Benito Mussolini occurred exactly 75 years ago on the 28th of April 2020. May the great people of Italia never have to endure his kind ever again.

First World War. This photograph from the archives of the League of Nations shows a soldier killed in World War I. The war raged for more than four years, from August 1914 to November 1918, and resulted in the deaths of more than nine million combatants. As many as seven million civilians also were killed in the war or died as a consequence of it. In the hope of ensuring that such a destructive conflict would never recur, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson and other leaders established, at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations, which was to be the centerpiece of a postwar international order. The organization ultimately proved powerless, however, to prevent the outbreak of an even more destructive war in 1939. The League of Nations was formally dissolved in April 1946 with the founding, after World War II, of the United Nations. The archives of the League were transferred to the United Nations and are housed at the UN office in Geneva. They were inscribed on the UNESCO ...

American soldier killed by German snipers in Leipzig, 1945 During the final days of the war, a platoon of machine gunners entered a Leipzig building looking for positions to set up covering fire points that would protect foot soldiers of the 2nd U.S. Infantry advancing across the bridge. Two members of the platoon found an open balcony that commanded on an unobstructed view of the bridge, set up their gun. For a while, one soldier fired the gun while the other fed it. Then one soldier went inside and the other manned the smoking gun alone. While absorbed in reloading it, a German sniper’s bullet from the street pierced his forehead. He crumpled to the floor, dead. War photographer Robert Capa climbed through a balcony window into the flat to photograph the dead man, who lay in the open door, a looted Luftwaffe sheepskin helmet on his head. The subsequent series of photographs show the rapid spread of the soldier’s blood across the parquet floor as other GIs attended to him and his...

 Fake Tree Observation Post of WW1 Credit: Imperial War Museum in London ----------------------------------------- Because the front was constantly watched by the enemy, one just couldn’t erect a new tree, because any new tree appearing out of nowhere would have instantly drawn attraction and fire.  The fake tree had to replace an existing tree. A dead tree, blasted by a bomb, located ideally near the trenches was chosen.  The tree was then photographed and extensively studied, measurements taken and sketches made. A hollow, steel replica was then made in the workshop far behind the lines.  At night, under the cover of darkness and artillery fire, the real tree was felled and the fake one installed in its place. The artillery fire also drowned out the noise of the work. During the WWI, both sides kept constant watch of the enemy lines for movement, but that was not an easy task. Anyone who stuck his head above the trench parapet for more than a few seconds was shot. ...

German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flamethrower, 1917. Two German soldiers with a Wechselapparat (“Wex”) flamethrower. The Germans introduced this small flamethrower in 19 17 to replace the earlier Kleif. The Wechselapparat (“Wex”) had a doughnut-shaped backpack fuel container with a spherical propellant container in the middle. This design was updated during the Second World War to become flamethrower model 40. However, model 40 was considered too fragile so it was soon replaced by model 41, a simpler construction with smaller, horizontal, cylindrical backpack containers. “Wechselapparat” is German for “exchange apparatus”. The flamethrower, which brought terror to French and British soldiers was used by the German army in the early phases of the First World War in 1914 and 1915 (and which was quickly adopted by both). The Flammenwerfers (flamethrowers) tended to be used in groups of six during the battle, each machine worked by two men. They were used mostly to clear forwar...

Ice cube mask designed to cure hangovers, 1947. The mask was invented by Max Factor, a makeup company that was founded in 1909 by a Polish beautician named Maksymilian Faktorowicz who emigrated to the United States in 1904. Max Factor specialized in movie make-up and demonstrated the importance of custom, technical make-up application based on several factors such as facial structure, contours and creative characterization. The mask was targeted towards actors and actresses in Hollywood, helping them look as if they weren't drinking the night before. The invention probably helped with redness, swelling and alcohol bloating in the face but probably did very little to cure the internal pains that come with a hangover. In 1991, the company was purchased by Proctor and Gamble for $1.14 billion.

Hitler urged his nation to: "Kill without pity or mercy On August 22nd, 1939, a week before the Germans attacked Poland, Hitler urged his nation to: "Kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space we need.” Over 500 towns and villages were burned, and there were 714 mass executions, of which 60% were carried out by the Wehrmacht (German army) and 40% by the SS and Gestapo. In Bydgoszcz, the first victims were boy scouts from 12 to 16 years old, shot in the marketplace. All this happened in the first eight weeks of the war.  See Richard C. Lucas, The Forgotten Holocaust; The Poles under German Occupation. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky (1986). In the East, the Soviets, collaborating with the Germans (Hitler-Stalin pact of August 23, 1939), attacked Poland on September 17, 1939, and occupied the eastern part of Poland until June 1941.  Massive killings followed, including 21,857...

Hanging of William Johnson PETERSBURG (Va.) THEN & NOW — A photo of the hanging of William Johnson, a USCT soldier, on June 20, 1864, paired with an approximate “Now” photo of the site. Per Harper’s Weekly of July 9, 1864: “Private Johnson deserted and while away from camp attempted to 'commit and outrage on a white woman at Cold Harbor.' Considerable importance was given to this affair, in order that an example might be made more effective. Johnson confessed his guilt and was hung at Jordan's Farm, Petersburg, Virginia on June 20, 1864.” “The hanging took place within the outer breastworks about Petersburg and on an elevation in plain view of Confederate troops. A white flag covered the ceremony.”

Despicable  Mass Rape in Europe by Allied soldiers after  war 1945 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 Mass R*ape in Europe by Allied soldiers after World War 2 The ra*pists were mainly Soviet and US soldiers. They were permitted and encouraged by official “Allied” policies which incited hatred against those of European nationalities which were  in fight against Communism. In Vienna,Austria alone, they ra*ped 100,000 women, not once but many times, including girls not yet in their teens, and aged women. By official policy, the Allies created conditions in which the only German mothers who could keep their young children alive were those who themselves or whose sisters became mistresses of the occupying troops. According to testimony given in the United States Se...

One of the most exciting gestures ever made by the enemy in war In July 1918, the youngest son of former President Theodore Roosevelt entered the massive aerial fight on World War I's Western Front. A promising U.S. Army pilot, Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt made his first confirmed kill on July 10th. But just four days later, the 20-year-old was surrounded by German planes and shot down. When German forces realized that they had killed the son of a president, they took the extraordinary step of holding a military funeral for him. More than 1,000 German soldiers reportedly looked on as Roosevelt was buried under a wooden cross that was held together with wire from the wreckage of his plane. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Roosevelts mourned their loss and the country grieved alongside them — with one town in Pennsylvania even changing its name to Quentin in honor of the fallen soldier.

You know how bad it is when you make killing (murdering innocent civilians) into merely a game. Japanese army practiced the principles of what they called “Three Clean”, by killing all, burning all and robbing all. And clearly they omitted the part of what they did to women—raping all. The Nanjing Massacre can easily be topped as one of the greatest atrocities to humanity. The Rape of Nanking is nothing but a true story on the literal sense and mental sense. Women, young to 5 or 6 years old, old to 60 years old, were dragged outside of their houses and raped in front of Japanese soldiers. None of them escaped the fate of being raped, and instantly killed afterwards. There were also details of how these women were raped, and many of them died in the process of raping because how Japanese treated humans as mere toys. They mutilated, disfigured and maimed easily women's naked bodies in ways whichever pleased them. Japanese officials turned the killing to a mad game, dedicating on...

Tuvia Grossman  is an American-Israeli man who was wrongly identified as a Palestinian in the caption of an Associated Press (AP) photograph of an Israeli police officer defending him from a violent Arab mob. The photograph, taken and marketed by AP during the Second Intifada in 2000, was published in  The New York Times ,  The Wall Street Journal , and other newspapers worldwide, and, along with the caption provided by AP, gave the impression that the Israeli police officer had brutally beaten a Palestinian. Attack . On the eve of Rosh Hashana 2000, Grossman, a student from Chicago who was enrolled at Yeshivas Bais Yisroel in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov (a neighborhood of Jerusalem), hailed a taxi with two friends to visit the Western Wall. When the driver took a shortcut through the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi al-Jo...

I read that Admiral Doenitz was one of the few German commanders to openly argue with Hitler and did not cooperate in turning in Jews. How did he get away with it? He got away with it because it was easy for him to. It’s true that Dönitz argued openly with Hitler more than once, and he wasn’t exactly turning in Jews to the machinery of the Final Solution either. But unlike what that might sound like, neither were things that he had to ‘get away with’. It’s a myth that arguing with Hitler was a dangerous action [1] - never in the entire history of the Reich did any military officer get punished for arguing with Hitler. Indeed, fevered and harsh arguments were old custom of the Prussian officer corps, and Hitler didn’t take any severe measures towards someone arguing against him. If you made an impression on him as an obstructive, unreasonable person, it might have harmed your career prospects, but that’s far as it went. On the other hand, being able to argue with Hitl...

10 Atrocities Committed By The Nazi The Nazi regime committed numerous heinous acts against captured women, showcasing extreme cruelty and disregard for human dignity: Sexual slavery: Forced into brothels for soldiers and camp guards, enduring repeated rape. Medical experimentation: Subjected to painful, often fatal experiments without consent, including sterilization trials and testing of chemical agents. Forced labor: Compelled to work in harsh conditions in factories, farms, and camps. Torture: Endured various forms of physical and psychological torture for information or as punishment. Starvation: Systematically deprived of food, leading to severe malnutrition and death. Separation from children: Mothers forcibly separated from their children, often never to see them again. Mass executions: Killed in group shootings or gas chambers, often with their children. Forced marches: Compelled to undertake long, grueling marches in harsh conditions as camps were evacuated. Degrada...

FORCE LABOR Forced labor engaged in by Soviet prisoners of war often violated the 1929 Geneva Convention. For example, the convention forbids work in war industries. In the Soviet Union Without the labor of Soviet prisoners of war for military infrastructure in the German rear areas—building roads, bridges, airfields, and train depots, as well as converting the Soviet wider-gauge railway to the German standard—the German offensive would soon have failed. In September 1941, Hermann Göring ordered the use of prisoners of war for mine clearing and in the construction of infrastructure to free up construction battalions. Many prisoners ran away because of the poor conditions in the camps, limiting forced labor assignments, and others died. Particularly deadly assignments included road building projects, especially in eastern Galicia, fortification building on the eastern front, and mining in the Donets basin, a...

Simone Segouin, mostly known by her codename Nicole Minet, was only 18 years old when the Germans invaded. Her first act of rebellion was to steal a bicycle from a German military administration and slice the tires of all the other bikes and motorcycles so they couldn't pursue her. She found a pocket of the Resistance and joined the fight, using the stolen bike to deliver messages between Resistance groups. She was an extremely fast learner and quickly became an expert at tactics and explosives. She led teams of Resistance fighters to capture German troops, set traps, and sabotage German equipment. As the war dragged on, her deeds escalated to derailing German trains, blocking roads, blowing up bridges, and helping to create a German-free path to aid the Allied forces in retaking France from the inside. Remarkably, she was never caught. Segouin was present at the liberation of Chartres on August 23, 1944, and then the liberation of Paris two days later. She was promoted...