While the American Army had put war dogs to good use already, mainly for sentry and guard duties, World War II was the first organized deployment of canine warriors by the Marine Corps, and the Marines intended to bring the dogs into the field, sniffing out enemy positions to warn of ambushes and ferrying messages… Read more »
The story begins in the 1970s when Kurt Götz looks through old documents after his mother’s death. There he also finds the letter with the news of the death of his father from October 1944. “Dear Mrs. Götz, I squeeze your hand at your most serious loss and can only give you the consolation that… Read more »
Feldgendarmerie units, (also known as “Kettenhunde” or “Chain Dogs”) were generally given occupation duties in territories directly under the control of the Wehrmacht . Their duties policing the areas behind the front lines ranged from straightforward traffic control and population control to suppression and execution of partisans and the apprehension of enemy stragglers. When combat units… Read more »
Lepa Svetozara Radić, was a Bosnian Serb member of the Yugoslav Partisans who was posthumously awarded the Order of the People’s Hero on 20 December 1951, for her role in the resistance movement against the Axis powers—becoming the youngest recipient at the time. She was executed in February 1943 at the age of 17 for shooting at… Read more »
Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle, born 15 June 1906 was a Wallon Belgian politician and Nazi collaborator, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS (becoming a leader of its Wallon contigent which were front-line troops in German combat operations against the Soviet Union. After World War II, he was a prominent figure in fascist movements. After studying… Read more »