Within nations occupied by the Axis Powers, some citizens, driven by nationalism, ethnic, hatred, anti Communism, anti Semitism or opportunism in collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II. These collaborationists committed some of the worst war crimes, crimes against humanity and atrocities of the Holocaust. The Germans reformed pre-war Dutch police and established a new… Read more »
During the military occupation of modern-day Ukraine by Nazi Germany, the new territorial divisions of World War II included District Galizien and Reichskommissariat Ukraine administered by Reichskommissar Erich Koch , overing both, the south-eastern territories of the Second Plosh Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic across former borders. After the war Koch stood trial in… Read more »
Walter Hermann Klingenbeck, born 30-03-1924, in Munich was a German resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich. Walter Klingenbeck came from a Catholic family. He was a member of the St. Ludwig Catholic Youth Troop until it was banned and dissolved by the Nazi régime. This experience laid the groundwork for his critical stance towards the aforesaid… Read more »
The Italian invasion of France, also called the Battle of the Alps (10–25 June 1940), was the first major Italian engagement of World War II and the last major engagement of the Battle of France. Italy’s entry into the war widened its scope considerably in Africa and theMediterranean Sea. The goal of the Italian leader, Benito Mussolini, was the… Read more »
Supposedly 22,000 Nazi supporters attended a German American Bund rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden in February 1939, under police guard. Demonstrators protested outside. Aside from its admiration for Adolf Hitler and the achievements of Nazi Germany, the German American Bund program included antisemitism, strong anti-Communist sentiments, and the demand that the United States… Read more »