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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....

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.

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...

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...

The Nazi propaganda system was a fine-tuned and well oiled machine that kept the majority of the German population (including the average soldier) mostly in the dark about the failing war effort. Although, there were incidents that they simply could not cover up or spin into a positive note. For example; the loss of an entire army group at Stalingrad and increased Allied bombing raids began to shed light onto Germany’s military woes. Nonetheless, many of the rank and file soldiers remained optimistic about the war effort for the majority of the conflict. The Battle of Stalingrad (Aug 1942-Feb 1943) is considered by many to be “The beginning of the end” for Germany on the Eastern Front, yet even after their disastrous defeat there, many in the German military still believed a victory could be carved out from the Russians. While huge amounts of irreplaceable men, equipment & morale were lost at Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht still remained a capable force & ma...

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...

Rarely, some people managed to survive the gas chambers and were not killed immediately afterwards. One such person is Gena Turgel and her story is more than astonishing. She survived three Nazi concentration camps and in Auschwitz-Birkenau was forced naked into the gas chambers She was 16 when her hometown of Krakow, Poland, was bombed by the Luftwaffe on September 1, 1939, the first day of the war. Norman had relatives in Chicago, but the family delayed putting plans to move there into action, and Poland was quickly conquered by the Germans. In the Jewish ghetto of Krakow Gena lost two brothers fighting against the Nazis. She was then sent to Plaszow concentration camp, where she survived for two and a half years until her transfer to Auschwitz. There she survived numerous experiments conducted by Nazi "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele. The most surprising part of her story is that she did not realize she was in a gas chamber until another prisoner told her. "Do ...

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...

Her head shaved by angry neighbours, a tearful Corsican woman is stripped naked and taunted for consorting with German soldiers during their occupation, September, 1943. While consorting with the enemy is indeed bad, some of these women, at least in Western Europe, were themselves victims. Some were hookers before the war who just needed to make ends meet and slept with soldiers along with other people. Some were women whose only way to survive was using a Nazi sugar daddy. Some were rape victims or girls roped into it. When looking at these sorts of events it's important not to see everything in black and white. The Nazis were terrible, people who aided them were terrible, but not all women who slept with Nazis only to be humiliated later deserved what they got. Growing up in a country that was occupied by Germany during WWII, talking to people from that era, I found that just about every single instance of this type of vigilantism was an odious act. It was basically just decrepit...

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...

The Thinking Man's ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ In 1930 Georg Pabst’s ‘Westfront 1918’ was Germany’s most anticipated cinema release.  It chronicled the shattering impact of the Great War upon four German soldiers on the Western Front.   The film lived up to expectations. At its premiere in Berlin, its unsparing realism reportedly caused 20 people to faint.  In the film’s most harrowing scene, a disillusioned lieutenant suffers a nervous breakdown and slides into insanity. He repeatedly shouts ‘Hurrah’ as he salutes a pile of corpses. The film was a critical success. A correspondent dubbed it ‘the most vivid argument yet contrived against war.’ The film has also stood the test of time.  In 1995 it was selected as one of the 100 most significant German movies ever made.  ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ scored it 100%, with one critic labelling it as ‘the thinking man's “All Quiet on the Western Front”.’ Yet the obvious question is, why have so few people ever heard of...

German soldiers launching an attack on 'Dead Man's Hill' during the Battle of Verdun, March 15-16, 1916. (Likely staged) The following is excerpts of Danish-German Unteroffizier Friedrich Karl Dambeck's account of an attack on the Côte 304 at Verdun on June 29, 1916 - today 107 years ago. Translated by myself:  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Following the long and thorough preparation, on June 29 we were again to attempt taking the corpse-covered hill with a storm. Already on June 27 did Hauptmann Borchmann step forward to organise his storm units. Four units of 12 men each were necessary. The majority of these volunteered, the rest were drafted among the most experienced. Everyone stood in their right place at the established timestamp. At 5:15 the last heavy German shells exploded on the enemy's position, and worse than ever before it rained with splinters and rocks by our ears, all due to our heavy artillery. Suddenly the shells were subdued; the artillery fire had moved fur...