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The prisoner defiantly stares down Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s right-hand-man, who was responsible for the Holocaust. Greasley’s confrontation with Himmler took place during an inspection of the camp he was confined to. The inmates were ordered to remain seated, but Greasley refused. Horace Greasley also escaped the death camp, but sneaked back in to rescue a German woman whom he had fallen in love with.
this is amazing
Wait it gets better, he escaped from the camp 200 times to meet with the woman he was in love with and returned after every time because there was no other place to go to. He also wrote an autobiography omfg this dude is seriously awesome
wrathofprawn:for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.
their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.
how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever
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The immediate reaction of German POWs upon being forced by the US Army to watch to the uncensored footage of the concentration camps shot by the US Signal Corps.
Monday morning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the corner of Montgomery and Market street. San Francisco, 1941.
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on our WWII quiz one of the questions was “how many estimated deaths came from World War II?” and i put “at least 12” and my teacher marked it correct
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Sir Nicholas Winton.
Actually crying.
Oh man, watch the video.
Oh wow, the look on his face… this is amazing.
THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.
What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.
The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.
The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed their findings at an academic forum in late January at the German Historical Institute in Washington.
“The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the institute, said in an interview after learning of the new data.
“We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was,” he said, “but the numbers are unbelievable.”
DID YOU KNOW: February, 1943 was the only time this iconic poster of “Rosie the Riveter was displayed during World War II. And did you know that Rosie the Riveter from the poster was inspired by a photo of Geraldine Doyle, a woman from Michigan? She worked in a plant in Ann Arbor during the war, then later moved to Lansing, where she lived until her death in 2010 at the age of 86.
The Roma neighborhood in the Lodz Ghetto after its inhabitants were transported to the Chelmno death camp.
Drafted militiamen depart Waterloo Station aboard a train for their training. Their sweethearts give them a goodbye kiss just before they leave, 1939.
Jean Moulin (1899-1943) was a leader of the French Resistance during World War II. In June 1943, he was arrested in a suburb of Lyon, interrogated and tortured by Gestapo leader Klaus Barbie in Lyon and Paris. He never revealed anything to his captors and subsequently died near Metz on a train to Germany. Many historians believe that Klaus Barbie personally beat Moulin to death.
Today, Moulin is the most recognizable face of the French Resistance and honoured as a national hero and martyr.
The daily life in Paris during the German occupation, 1942.
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