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 »
Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich, the magnetic movie star and singer who was an international symbol of glamour and sex for more than half a century, died May 6 1992 at her home in Paris. She was 90 years old. In her personal life, Dietrich was a strong opponent of the Nazi government in Germany. When Hitler… Read more »
Frenzel, born on 20 August 1911 in Zehdenick on the Havel, the son of a Reichsbahn employee, both his brothers were killed in the First World War. He took on a four year apprenticeship as a carpenter, but work in this field was difficult to find. He managed to find agricultural work, then became a… Read more »
The Battle of the Seelow Heights, Schlacht um die Seelower Höhen, was part of the Seelow-Berlin Offensive Operation (16 April-2 May 1945). A pitched battle, it was one of the last assaults on large entrenched positions of the World War II. It was fought over three days, from 16–19 April 1945. Close to one million Soviet soldiers of the 1st… Read more »
Operation Cottbus was an anti-partisan operation during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The operation began on 20 May 1943 during the World War II occupation of northern Belarus in the areas of Begoml, Lepel and Ushachy. A number of Belarusian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian collaborationist units took part in the operation, along with the SS Special Battalion Oskar Dirlewanger. Numerous villages were depopulated and burned as part… Read more »
For the past 23 years, veterans age 55 and older have come together to compete in the National Veterans Golden Age Games . It’s the largest sports and recreational competition for this age group of military veterans in the world, and this year’s competition, held in Birmingham, Ala., in early June, marked a special commemoration…. Read more »
The OT “Organization Todt” after Minister for armament and munitions Fritz Todt was not given an official name until Hitler, in a rather careless manner, did so shortly after coming to power in 1933. In 1938 Todt founded the Organisation Todt proper as a consortium of the administrative offices which Todt had personally set up… Read more »
The Waffen-SS, Armed SS) was the armed wing of the Nazi Party’s SS organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both occupied and un-occupied lands. The Waffen-SS grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions during World War Ii, and served alongside the Heer (regular army), Ordnungspolizei (uniformed police) and other security… Read more »
About 265,000 German, Romanian, and Italian soldiers, the 369th (Croatian) Reinforced Infantry Regiment, and other volunteer subsidiary troops including some 40,000 Soviet conscripts and volunteers fighting for the Germans (Beevor states that one quarter of the Sixth Army’s front line strength were Hiwis collaborationists recruited from the ranks of Soviet POWs were called) were surrounded. A Hiwi… Read more »
