Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located in the town of Landsberg in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west of Munich and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Augsburg. The prison was used by Allied power during the occupation of Germany for holding Nazi War Criminals. In 1946 General Joseph Taggart McNarney , Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces of Occupation… Read more »
The SA was founded in Munich by Hitler in 1921 out of various roughneck elements that had attached themselves to the fledgling Nazi movement. It drew its early membership largely from the Freikorps (Free Corps), armed freebooter groups, made up largely of ex-soldiers, that battled leftists in the streets in the early days of the Weimar Republic… Read more »
The Ardenne Abbey massacre occurred during the Battle of Normandy at the Ardenne Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen, France. In June 1944, 20 Canadian soldiers were massacred in a garden at the abbey by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend over the course of several days and weeks. During the course of the Normandy Campaign an estimated “156 Canadian prisoners of war… Read more »
Historians estimate that more than 1.000,000 children were born to German soldiers enforcing the four-year Nazi occupation of Europe, about 200,000 in France alone. We have discussed extensively on the rape committed by Russian, American and French soldiers on German women during and after WW2. We largely believed that men of the Wehrmacht were not so… Read more »
Alois Brunner , born 8 April 1912 was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who worked as Adolf Eichmann’s assistant. Adolf Eichmann referred to Brunner as his “best man.” Brunner is held responsible for sending over 100.000 European Jews to the gas chambers. He was commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, from… Read more »