Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Sociaist Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among Holocaust victims. Beginning in 1933, gay organizations were banned, scholarly books about homosexuality, and sexuality in general, were burned, (such as those from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, run… Read more »
The Georgian Uprising on Texel (Dutch: Opstand der Georgiërs) (5 April 1945 – 20 May 1945) was an Insurrection by the 882nd Infantry Battalion Königin Tamara, Queen Tamar of the Georgeon Legion of the German Army, German Werhrmacht) stationed on the German occupied Dutch island of Texel. The battalion was made up of 800 Georgians and 400 Germans, with mainly German officers…. Read more »
Karl Jäger was born 20-September 1868 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. In World War joined the German army, where he received the Iron Cross (1st Class) and other awards. After World War I, Jäger, an orchestration maker by profession, obtained a managerial position with the Weber orchestration factory in Waldkirch. He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 Nr. 359269) and founded the local party chapter, as… Read more »
One of the main objectives of Operation Market Garden was to capture the two bridges across the Waal river in Nijmegen. Under the command of General James Gavin , paratroopers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division landed in the area around the village of Groesbeek on Sunday 17 September 1944. The Allied units secured the drop… Read more »
The liberation comes for the Eindhoveners on September 18, 1944. Exuberantly they celebrate. The Americans and Britons are greeted with cheers and songs. People dance on the streets and the joy is unprecedented. But the day after, this changes abruptly to the opposite. German bombers appear above Eindhoven and bomb the city. Many civilian casualties… Read more »