The Nazis murdered approximately 12 million people, nearly 6 million of those being Jews killed in the Holocaust (“whole burnt”). During WWII, the Japanese launched 9,000 “wind ship weapons” of paper and rubberized-silk balloons that carried incendiary and anti-personnel bombs to the S. More than 1,000 balloons hit their targets and they reached as far… Read more »
Posts By: Rob Hopmans
Fascinating Facts About World War II.
The longest battle of WWII was the Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted from 1939-1945. The original abbreviation of the National Socialist Party was Nasos. The word “Nazi” derives from a Bavarian word that means “simple minded” and was first used as a term of derision by journalist Konrad Heiden (1901-1966). The swastika is an ancient… Read more »
The Massacre of Chortiatis 02-09-1944.
The Chortiatis massacre was a World War II mass murder of 146 civilians by the Wehrmacht, at the end of the occupation of Greece of Greeece by the Axis powers on 2 September 1944. After the capture of three German soldiers by the Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS) on mount Chortiatis, the German occupation authorities decided to react immediately with a reprisal operation against the civilian population… Read more »
Gleiwitz incident, September 1st 1939
As the rays of early evening sun lingered over the giant wooden mast that protruded through the pine forest, two cars passed through the gates of the German radio station and stopped outside the three-storey transmission building. Forty-three-year-old unmarried Catholic farmer, Franz Honiok In the following minutes, seven SS officers posing as Polish partisans, would carry… Read more »
Russian Soldiers WW2.
The Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army was the name given to the Soviet Forces that served in World War Two. It was established in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and honed its fierce and brutal qualities in the Russian Civil War. After this, the Soviet Union engaged in a series of conflicts… Read more »