Irmgard Huber was the head nurse of Germany’s Hadamar Clinic, a psychiatric facility. Beginning in late 1939, it was operated as one of six major centers for Action T4 , a secret sterilization and euthanasia program in Nazi Germany . Nearly 15,000 German citizens were killed here, including thousands of children. Irmgard Huber was born in 1901… Read more »
Wallace Strobel was born on June 5, 1922 and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan; the son of Carl and Elizabeth Strobel. After graduation from Arthur Hill High School, Wallace enlisted in the National Guard and consequently the United States Army. He served as a first lieutenant in the “Screaming Eagles”, the 101st Airborne Division, 502… Read more »
Captain Benjamin Lewis Salomon was serving at Saipan, in the Marianne Islands on July 7, 1944, as the Surgeon for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division, nickname “New York Division” . The Regiment’s 1st and 2nd Battalions were attacked by an overwhelming force estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 Japanese soldiers. It was one of… Read more »
Hitler‘s own Generals tried to assassinate him on July 20, 1944, to end Nazi Germany’s all-out commitment to a war that was now clearly lost. But the assassination attempt failed. Hitler took revenge by purging the General Staff of anyone deemed suspicious or exhibiting defeatist behavior. Nearly 200 officers and others were killed, in some… Read more »
The city of Lwow, which is also famous for its German name Lemberg, is now called Lviv and is part of modern day Ukraine. The city was known for its overwhelmingly Jewish population that topped 110,000 before the Second World War broke out in 1939. By the time Germans invaded Poland and got control over… Read more »