The Schutzstaffel, SS; also stylized as , literally “Protection Squadron” was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party) in Nazi Germany. It began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz (Hall-Protection) made up of NSDAP, SA streetfighter, volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich. In 1925, Heinrich… Read more »
The Falaise Pocket or Battle of the Falaise Pocket (12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. A pocket was formed around Falaise, Calvados, in which the German Army Group B under Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel with the 7th Army under SS Oberstgruppenführer Paul “Papa” Hausser and the Fifth Panzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe West) under General of Panzer Troops Heinrich Eberbach were encircled by the Western… Read more »
The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking or Rape of Nanjing, was an episode during the Second Sino Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China. The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day… Read more »
Nobody escaped the regime of Hitler, even those who served under him. Hitler executed 84 German Generals for various reasons like: The commander of the German Home Army, General Friedrich Fromm, is shot by a firing squad for his part in the July plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. Ludwig Beck was in the custody of General… Read more »
Gesche joined the Nazi party in 1922 when he was only 17 and first met Hitler in Berlin a short time afterwards. The Führer remained devoted to him for the remainder of his life, despite the fact that Gesche had a heavy drinking problem. Gesche was known as a ruthless brawler and intimidating to Nazi opponents. Himmler intrigued… Read more »