tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50910463458730025072012-01-27T00:23:03.409-08:00A Large Collection Of Rare, Unseen Images Of War. Especially Of World War TwoKaran Gohilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15700378533829962836noreply@blogger.comBlogger2301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091046345873002507.post-7451760260363085222012-01-25T21:14:00.000-08:002012-01-27T00:23:03.578-08:00

We have read and heard about WW2. About how evil the Germans were. Concentration camps. Extermination camps. Holocaust. Ethnic cleansing. Brutal treatment of Russian POW on the Eastern Front. True. But this is only one side of the story...... In 1945 when Germany lost the war, it was treated by the Allies in a manner that can be, at best, be termed as inhuman. Read on...  There are no

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 Two Waffen SS soldiers have a drink. In the background burns a T-34 tank Boys will be boys! SS troops welcomed by Ukrainian girls to their village. If only Hitler had played his cards better.....  A Waffen SS war correspondent 1943, Kharkov. Waffen SS troops with a Volkswagen amphibious vehicle. Type 166  A SS soldier in the trench Soldiers of the 5th SS Volunteer

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All the images are from the Eastern Front  Russia. A battle rages  Seems like a scene out of 'Apocalypse Now'. The grim war zone is the Ostfront  In the early days of Barbarossa many many Russian soldiers surrendered. They were badly treated by the Germans and most left to starve. There are reports that many Russian POW turned cannibalistic to survive.  

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I stumbled across this bit of history accidentally! The inhuman torture that was meted out to German prisoners by American soldiers and authorities after the country lost the war in 1945.  The truth at times is very unpalatable....The Nazis were evil but what the American interrogators did was hardly holy.  We always knew America could be cruel inhuman and ruthless. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo

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WW2. The first impression that comes to our minds is of brave American soldiers fighting and defeating the 'bad' German soldiers......May be it is the power of American propaganda.... But sadly the truth is never so black and white. American soldiers too acted bestially against captured German soldiers, especially those from the Waffen SS.... Long before the Nuremberg Trials even began

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A South Vietnamese soldier handles a corpse. 1966 (Image by Christian Simonpietri) These men were soldiers. They were unfortunate. They fought for a country that ceased to exist, gobbled up by a aggressive brethren. They fought for a regime that was dictatorial and unpopular. When America dumped South Vietnam and the communist North took over, no one shed any tears for these men of the ARVN

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German infantrymen watch enemy movements from their trenches shortly before an advance inside Soviet territory, on July 10, 1941. (AP Photo) Operation Barbarossa began on June 22, 1941. German troops crossed the Russian border. The wily Stalin was caught unawares. He did not expect Hitler to attack so early. Stalin had disregarded intelligence inputs and advice from many Russian officers to

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They were Nazi Germany's weapons of revenge. A marvel far ahead of their time. A testimony to German excellence and inventive genius. The Vergeltungswaffe. The V weapons. Vengeance weapons. V1 was the father of the modern drones. V2 was the first missile ever made. The ballistic missile A4 (V2) The V-2 rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, i.e. retaliation weapon 2), technical name Aggregat

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V1 and V2 were attempts of a desperate Nazi Germany to turn the inexorable tide of war in its favour. They killed many people and gave the Allies a big headache. But ultimately Hitler's Vengeance weapons made little difference in the war.   Now if Einstein had not fled Germany...If the Germans had made the atom bomb before its defeat....One shudders at the thought.  V 1  and V1 made history.

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 (All the images are huge. Just click on the image to see the largest size) If the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunal had been applied impartially, many American, Soviet and other Allied military and political leaders would have been hanged. ".. a libel on the military profession." - Vice Admiral Hewlett Thebaud, USN  "... a fantastic desecration of the ideals of Western Civilisation,

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(PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO SEE THEM LARGER) (Image: Hugo Jaeger) Heinrich Himmler in Warsaw. 1939  German tanks in Russia  Germans with a Pak 35/36 gun on the street of a Russian city (Source: Bundesarhiv (Bundesarchiv) / 146-1970-018-54.) Oberfeldfebel Rudolf Kruger (Rudolf Krüger), holder of the Knight's Cross He was awarded the Knight's Cross of October 5, 1941

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Everybody believes that World War II began on September 1, 1939 with the German attack on Poland. But the Chinese are convinced that the war  began much earlier! Some say in  1931 - Japanese invasion of Manchuria; others put it on July 7, 1937 - when, using the armed incident in the area Lugoutsyao (incident at the Marco Polo Bridge), the Japanese army launched a war to capture all of China.

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The true mettle of an American soldier was thoroughly tested by the formidable Japanese soldier during WW2. He emerged with flying colors. It established the image of an American soldier as of a tough, easy-going but very mean fighting machine. U.S. Marines in the jungles of Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. September 13, 1943 SOLOMON ISLANDS CAMPAIGN The Solomon Islands campaign was a

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 Bodies of allied soldiers killed at Dieppe The Dieppe Raid, also known as the Battle of Dieppe, Operation Rutter or later on Operation Jubilee, during the Second World War, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe on the northern coast of France on 19 August 1942. The assault began at 5:00 AM and by 10:50 AM the Allied commanders had been forced to call a retreat.

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World War Two. We read mostly about D-Day. May be Stalingrad. We see images of American soldiers. British soldiers. German soldiers. But rarely of Japanese soldiers. The reason is that not many pictures of Japanese soldiers are available. Below are some images. Rare. They were soldiers too. Like any other. The Japanese execute a captured American airman. To a westerner this image may seem

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Remains of the day. Abandoned anti-aircraft guns and corpses on the streets of Dunkirk Everybody knows about Dunkirk. How the British left its arms and hastily evacuated its men from a defeated France on anything that floated on water in 1940. But what till this day remains a mystery (there are many theories) is why did the Germans just sit and watch while the British were fleeing? If Hitler

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France was no mean power in 1940. But its defences collapsed like a pack of cards under the ruthless German offensive in May 1940. The British too had to hastily retreat from France. It left the world stunned. Why? Poor leadership both political and military. The Germans had provided a trailer in September 1939 in Poland. But the British and French learnt nothing. Blitzkrieg overwhelmed them.

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 Berlin. April 1945. Apocalypse. Hell on Earth. This savage battle on this ancient cultured city is perhaps one of the most brutal battles in history. No quarters were given. An aggressive hatred filled Russian army, large in number with lots of tanks and guns. Facing it was a shattered remains of a once proud army.  The Battle of Berlin is as important for its fierce fighting as for the

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A dead German soldier lies in the foreground. Devastated Koenigsburg. April 1945. After the massive Russia assault. April 6-9, 1945 EAST PRUSSIA 60 years ago the earth trembled at the front in the east. On 12 January 1945, the Soviet offensive on Hitler's Empire with a force that witnesses describe today as the "worst inferno". From three sides simultaneously attacked the Red Army. -------------

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German women lie dead on a street in Berlin in 1945 after they were brutally raped and murdered by the Russian soldiers The German women raped and forced into sexual slavery at the end of WW2 are still among the most forgotten, suppressed, ridiculed victims of war in history  RAPE IN EAST PRUSSIA BOOK EXTRACT   "IVAN'S WAR" BY Catherine Merridale "It was evening when we drove

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As the 1945 began, the Russian army inexorably began to close into Germany. The result was foregone. But for the Nazi regime and the German soldiers there was only one option....To fight on...Desperately... Till one died. Surrender was just not an option. Below is the story of the dying months on the Eastern Front of WW2. The Russians had just stepped onto German soil....The tragic, brutal story

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Guido Knopp, sums the Waffen-SS perfectly in his documentary “Waffen SS – Hitler’s Elite Fighting Force”: “Had that marvellous courage and unflinching endurance,the blood so freely shed been devoted to a cause in anyway honourable, the Waffen SS would have assured themselves of eternal. But it was not. They served and were inextricably interlinked with a system unutterably evil in any

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The story of Hitler as he faced defeat and death in the last days of April, 1945 is a gripping. Fuhrer Bunker, in the heart of Berlin was a structure of concrete and steel. This is where Hitler lived from January, 1945 till his suicide in April, 1945.  Hitler's bunker in 1946. The dome-shaped structure is the shelter for the guards The Führerbunker  was located beneath Hitler's New Reich

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Barbarossa The Russian German Conflict 1941-1945.Written by Alan Clark. Published by Perennial in 1985.ISBN No: 0688042686.BUY THIS BOOK :LOWEST PRICES This book tells the story of the war on the Eastern Front. It covers the lead up to Operation Barbarossa and ends with the aftermath of the fall of Germany. It is an amazing account of the most brutal of all campaigns. The scale of the Eastern

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BUY THE DVD>>>>

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This is how WW2 started. On September 1, 1939, German soldiers removed the barrier on the German-Polish border This is how American cartoonist Herb Block saw the invasion of Poland, Germany signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Russia in August 1939 which paved the way for the dismemberment of Poland. Wehrmacht soldiers break the border post on the German-Polish border German soldiers march

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 The following are the words of an anonymous Vietnam Veteran who wrote in to the site. We thought it appropriate that these precious comments be published as a separate article.... As 19 yr. old Marine I was trained to kill the enemy and I will admit I had no reluctance to do so when we went out looking for them. Army units, not paratroopers or rangers,knew where to go to avoid contact.U.S.

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Milk for Berliners by air The WW2 honeymoon between the Soviet Union and America ended in June 1948 with the Berlin Blockade. Berlin had been conquered by the Russians alone but as the US had been an wartime ally Berlin was broken up into four zones; Russian, American, British and French. The Western allies reached West Berlin by a narrow corridor with a road and a railway line. In June 1948

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A German soldier with a MG-34 machine gun with optical sights. German technology at work This man has a bite to eat. He has a machine gun and a hand grenade by his side German sniper in camouflage mask, armed with a carbine Mauser 98 K with an optical sight. A soldier catches his dead colleague on film Having a rough time. A horse has collapsed and there is a traffic jam The Germans are

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The pictures in this article are rather grim. They show the brutal side of German soldiers The Soviet POW stands glumly in a German army truck. Wonder what happened to the man later German flame-thrower all set for action These men are trying out the gallows before it is used on Russians Killing Russians A soldier sets the dog on a captured Russian POW German soldiers in the town square in

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Taking a break after a hard day. Or has the bad news started coming in? This man is reading a letter from home. His mother or his girlfriend or wife? This German is writing back Bonding together. Hard to imagine that these men were made out to be monsters. They look like just a bunch of, say American soldiers lazing off. There is a guy with specs here. He hardly looks like a hard fighting

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This is a dismal picture from the Russian Front. A dull, foggy day. German soldiers bid farewell to their departed colleagues Socialising. A relaxed lull in the war Captured guns from the Russians? Seems like there is a Soviet soldier around. The German soldier is alert and nervous. The officer is calm and collected. Almost amused. Trying out captured Soviet guns This Wehrmacht officer takes

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French soldiers examine the remains of a German light bomber Heinkel He 111, after it was shot down. France had not fallen yet. There are thousands of pictures that show the fall of France in May, 1940. But given below are some (I think are) rare images of that moment in history. French POWs. Two of them seem to want something. The German soldier seems quite attentive. Adolf Hitler came to

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Sudeten Germans knock down the Czech border post separating it from Germany THE SUDETEN CRISIS Before 1938, Britain had already given way to Hitler on a number of occasions, but it was the events of the Sudeten crisis which showed appeasement in action – trying to buy off Hitler by giving way to his demands. On 11 March 1938, Hitler invaded Austria. It was clear he wanted to do the same in

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September1, 1939. 6 am. German troops start moving into Poland INVASION OF POLAND, 1939: IN BRIEF The Invasion of Poland was the German Poland Campaign, which began on September 1, 1939. It was codenamed "Operation Case White", Unterrnehmen Fall Weiss in German. The German invasion of Poland started World War II. It was also carried out by the Soviet Union, with whom Hitler had signed a

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"The defenders of the city used to say that the streets, avenues andparks near the Volga became slippery from blood, and that the Germansslipped down to their doom." General Chuikov Abandoned German self-propelled guns, seized by Soviet troops at Stalingrad. This ACS Marder II had a 76.2-mm gun. SOME FACTS OF STALINGRAD 1. On each square kilometer of Stalingrad Tractor Factory's territory

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In the Western World most of the pictures we have grown up with are of British and American soldiers. And some of German soldiers. Perhaps a hangover of the Cold War. Despite the fact that the most decisive battles took place in the Ostfront; the Eastern Front ot thr Russian Front. And even less we have seen are images of the Russian soldiers. Below are some color pics (colored by Photoshop)

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Poster is an example of realistic art - a glimpse of generalized reality splashed onto a sheet of paper. It is laconic, dynamic and easy to understand, omnipresent and decorative. It's both a chronicler and a powerful tool of monumental propaganda. Political poster played a great role in the anti-fascist struggle. Poster art developed rapidly during the war, giving rise to new forms of

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Russian soldiers move.... TWO RUSSIAN COMMANDERS MADE THE DIFFERENCE IN STALINGRAD In the first days of the fighting, the Germans were confident that although Stalingrad's defenders fought fanatically from the beginning, they will quickly occupy the city. From the Russian side things didn't look better. There were initially 40,000 troops in Stalingrad, but mostly ill-equipped reserve soldiers

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It is a pathetic sight to behold. Broken men. Once proud driven men of the German army, now broken...powerless. At the mercy of the Russians. Most did not make it back to Germany alive.

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The Russian front: Where the hardest and most brutal fighting took place during the Second World war A Russian airman besides his fighter plane WHY DID GERMANY LOSE WW2? In his book "Modern Times", Paul Johnson clearly marks the exact point in time when the outcome of the war was decided. His analysis is shared by other top authors, and was also shared by Winston Churchill himself at the time

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The biased western media has chosen not to emphasise the fact that without Russia, Nazi Germany would have triumphed over the whole world. The real vital fighting during the Second World War took place on the Eastern Front. It was not a fight between Nazism and communism. But it was a fight between two very proud and patriotic peoples; Germans and Russians. For German POWs it is a long walk

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A Russian gun about to fire. THE REAL STORY OF THE RUSSIAN FRONT Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War By Chris Bellamy: A tremendous contribution to the record of Russia’s struggle, for which future historians will owe a debt Reviewed by Max Hastings Moderation is conspicuously absent from the experience of the Russian people. Through the centuries, they have displayed a

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War is hell. Especially for children. How did Russian children deal with the Second World War? I have omitted images of children caught in the cross-fire or those injured. Children in Kalinin. They lived in the dugout during the ocupation. 1942. Children lay wreath at the graves of dead Russian soldiers. 1942. A boy Russian soldier? What on earth was he doing in the Soviet army? Boys play in

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There are many images of the Russian Front which were not taken by the official Nazi propaganda machine. Present are some pics taken by the German soldiers on the field. They tell their own story. Burying a departed comrade. German soldiers in Russia lower a dead soldier into his grave. The final salute Captured Soviet soldiers walk with a beady-eyed German guarding them. Last farewell to

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It is early days into Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. The Germans ruthlessly executed partisans. If Hitler had not been so ruthless against ordinary Russian people, the communist state would have collapsed. Most Russians hated Stalin and the communists. Stalin had purged the Russian army of its best officers and replaced them communists in 1937. The Russian army had not recovered from that

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After wrapping up Poland between themselves, the Russians and Germans meet at Lublin, 1939. Germany would attack Russia in less than two years. Canadian Journal of History, 2007 by Ben Lombardi Reviews the book "June 1941: Hitler and Stalin," by John Lukacs.Excerpt from the review Whereas Stalin lurched from one failure to the next in his relations with Hitler, the German leader displayed

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Before D-Day, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower gives his "Nothing else, but complete victory" talk to American soldiers of 101st Airborne Division QUOTES "Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely" General Dwight Eisenhower - 6th June 1944 VIDEO: GERMAN NEWSREEL

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This image perhaps says it all. The proud young German soldier lies dead before the Brandenburg Gate The Battle for Berlin saw some of the fiercest and desperate fighting during the Second World war. The Germans were fighting desperately to stave off avenging Russians. The Russians were desperate to get to Berlin first. Also to get hold of the nuclear weapons that the Nazis had invented. QUOTES

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This is a heart-rending account from a man who lived in Berlin after Nazism ended in 1945. Today we went to Berlin, my wife and me. The streets are cleaned up as far as possible, to restore the traffic barely. It has freed the scattered stones from mortar and built from the ruins of houses. At times you go over a carpet of dust. Alexanderplatz a huge Russian tank was shot in the street. Not

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The Tsunami in 2004 was a destructive one. Amazingly it carried a thousand tons ship two miles onshore! This 100-foot fishing boat was swept inland by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which dumped it atop a house near the port of Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's island of Sumatra. Fifty-nine residents fleeing floodwaters took refuge aboard the vessel until waters receded more than seven hours later,

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Here are some propaganda posters from the Third Reich. I have only included those which show the real essence. Other posters are in another article. The young, virile Anglo-Saxon Germans. The story of the Nazi rise to power in the Germany of the 1930s is often seen as a classic example of how to achieve political ends through propaganda. The Nazis themselves were certainly convinced of its

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The soldiers of the German army which occupied the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, Georgia) were not blood-sucking monsters. They were human too. The pictures below bring out their human side. Some of the photos may have been posed for, courtesy Goebbels, but many of them are spontaneous. The German soldiers smile at seeing the vagabond. In Ukraine. LETTERS FROM GERMAN SOLDIERS IN RUSSIA (

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The formidable German soldiers during the Second World War were human too. The photos below shows that. I guess these pictures were taken when things were going well during Barbarossa. It was only after that things started going horribly wrong for the Germans. I wonder how many of them returned home. Funny how these hardened ideological driven men play with a kitten. Puppies in the famous

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The invincible German soldiers of the Wehrmacht were human too. Given below are some photos of these brave men during lighter moments of the Second World war. I won't call these images as humorous. I would say it shows the human side of the German army. All the images are from the Russian front. One wonders how many of them returned alive to Germany after the war. After Paulus surrendered at

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A Russian gun booms on the streets of Stalingrad. Early on the morning of 23 August 1942, the 16th Panzer Division raced eastwards over the steppe from the river Don. That same evening, it halted on the bank of the Volga. The tank crews gazed across towards Asia. They had reached the designated boundary of the Third Reich's eastern territories. Messerschmitt fighters performed victory

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What was the Battle for Kursk? In July 1943, the biggest battle of the WWII started in the vast area between Orel and Kursk. This strategic offensive of the Russian High Command started with a major disinformation campaign. During the battle, the Soviet Command managed to create a felling of the coming victory among the Nazi commanders but instead, ensnared the bigger part of the German army

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Japanese brutality during the Second World War is legendary. It was perhaps because the Japanese soldiers believed that whatever inhuman acts they did were for good of Japan, for their Emperor. Something like the mentality of the Wehrmacht soldier (especially the SS troops) in Germany. No one else or nothing else mattered. A Japanese soldier prepares to execute a Chinese A Japanese torture

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The Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (English: Steel Helmet, League of Frontline Soldiers) was one of the many paramilitary organizations that arose after the defeat of World War I in the Weimar Republic. The Stahlhelm was founded at the end of 1918 partly by Franz Seldte in the city of Magdeburg. Its journal, Stahlhelm, was edited by Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, later hanged for his part

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Rosa Luxemburg was a fiery lady. She was the real brains and inspiration behind the Spartacists revolt of 1919. Germany after the First World War was in a mess. It was thus fertile ground for all sorts of revolts. The first to occur was by the Spartacists/Communists in 1919. The lady gives an impassioned speech as the people listen enthralled. The Spartacists, lead by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl

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The Kapp Putsch took place in Weimar Germany in March 1920. Wolfgang Kapp was a right-wing journalist who opposed all that he believed Friedrich Ebert stood for especially after what he believed was the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles. The Kapp Putsch was a direct threat to Weimar’s new government. Kapp was assisted by General Luttwitz who lead a group of Freikorps men. On March 13th,

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Spanish Civil War(1936 – 39) Military revolt against the government of Spain. After the 1936 elections produced a Popular Front government supported mainly by left-wing parties, a military uprising began in garrison towns throughout Spain, led by the rebel Nationalists and supported by conservative elements in the clergy, military, and landowners as well as the fascistFalange. Seeking aid from

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There were many dramatic moments during the Second World War that were never captured on film. Paintings step into the picture literally. Below are oil paintings that display the dramatic moments of the war. German Blitzkrieg! Aggressive German soldiers and lots of tanks! German soldiers having a rough time in Russia Soviet leader Josef Stalin gets a standing applause from his countrymen

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Poland suffered during the occupation by Nazi Germany. Here is a photo album that says it all. "It is a shame to say it but some Polish people took part in that crime. Some people even helped the gendarmes look for hidden Jews. The Germans even killed small Jewish children. It is hard to describe." German soldiers break down the road barrier. The march into Poland began. INVASION OF POLAND:

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It is well known that Hitler attacked Poland because that would be the gateway to enslave the 'barbaric slavs' in Russia. But there was one other reason. The massacres of Germans in Danzig corridor in 1939. You may say this gave Hitler the perfect excuse to attack Poland. It gave a justification to the German people for the invasion of Poland. The 1939 Danzig Massacres he Polish Bolsheviks kill

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Adolph Hitler turned fifty on April 20, 1939. How did he celebrate his birthday? Mainly, as it befits the leader of all Germans. But one image strikes us. Hitler with children of Nazi officials. I guess it was all for propaganda. Hitler hardly loved children. No doubt Hitler was very sensitive. He did not receive the real unconditional love that every child needs. The father was dominating; the

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The Germans march in Warsaw Andrew Roberts the author of the book, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, says that Britain and France could have attacked Germany and defeated it when the cream of the Wehrmacht was busy in Poland The fear of a war on two fronts led the Führer to detail no fewer than 40 divisions to protect his back. Crucially, however, three-quarters of these

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.... so naïve were the prime minister and foreign secretary about the true nature of modern Blitzkrieg warfare that they genuinely imagined that there was even an outside possibility of Hitler simply calling off the attack. Wehrmacht marches in Warsaw. Poland falls Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939. Why did Britain and France take two days (They declared war on September 3) to do the

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It is after 30 years that new book on the second World war has been written. It is The Storm of War: A New History of The Second World War by Andrew Roberts. Why 30 years? The earlier book was the classic Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William S Shirer. Shirer's book is a gem. Absolute page-turner with a jungle of details and figures. A must read. Then why did Roberts write another book on

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There were two battles of El Alamein, both during 1942 (First Battle of El-Alamein, July 1-27, 1942. Second Battle of El-Alamein, October 23-November 3, 1942). El Alamein is a town in N Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea. It was the site of a decisive British victory in World War II. In preparation for an attack by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel from Libya (begun May 26, 1942) the British forces

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These comic strips summarise the rise of modern Japan after the Meiji Restoration. Events till the Pearl harbor are covered. PSYCHOLOGY OF JAPANESE MILITARISM The rise of Japanese militarism in the 1930s was due to many factors. Firstly, the emergence of Shintoism in the late Tokugawa era provided Japanese militarism with the ideological foundation. Japanese people were the offspring of Sun

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I have always felt that learning anything with comics is the best way to do it. The strips only give the essentials and the drawings help us remember them better.Here is the first part of the comic book on the attack on Pearl Harbor. The comic is an American one, so a certain amount of jingoism is apparent. But it is not too biased. Enjoy this history lesson!RELATED--Rise of Imperial Japan:

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Here is the second part of the comic book on the attack on Pearl Harbor. The comic is an American one, so a certain amount of jingoism is apparent. But it is not too biased. Enjoy this history lesson! RELATED--Rise of Imperial Japan: COMICS! Leading to Pearl H...Attack on PEARL HARBOR: COMICS: Part 1Attack on Pearl Harbor:IN COMICS! Part 3

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I have always felt that learning anything with comics is the best way to do it. The strips only give the essentials and the drawings help us remember them better.Here is the third part of the attack on Pearl Harbor. RELATED ARTICLESRise of Imperial Japan: COMICS! Leading to Pearl H...Attack on PEARL HARBOR: COMICS: Part 1Attack on Pearl Harbor: COMICS: Part 2

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A Chinese think tank recently in a paper suggested balkanisation of India. The Indian scars of a war lost in 1962 re-opened when there were media reports that Chinese army men had shot at and even beaten up Indian border guards, the ITBP. In the 1962 war China annexed part of Indian territory in Leh, Kashmir. The border problem dates back to the British times. The McMahon Line was drawn up by

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Allied bombing on Germany increased as the years went by. here is a remarkable collection of photos taken by the pilots of allied aircraft. The city is Cologne. The bird's eye view does not reflect the destruction and suffering on the ground. This a railway yard. Clearly visible is the turntable (the contraption to change the direction of old steam locomotives). The City of Cologne was bombed

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Sino-Japanese War, 1894–95 , a conflict between China and Japan over domination of Korea. It marked the beginning of Japanese expansionism on the Asian main-land. The war had its origin in Japan's ambition to gain an empire. The Japanese had found a pretext several times for sending troops into Korea, for centuries a semi-independent vassal of the Chinese Empire, which moved to defend it. In 1894

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Moon beautiful Aurora Borealis: A display of colored lights in the sky, also called northern lights, caused by the interaction of particles from the sun with the upper atmosphere near the North Pole. A similar display, called the aurora australis, occurs in the atmosphere above the South Pole. That is the scientific explanation. watching it stirs one's soul. Harsh winter. Harsh winter

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All the images seem to be doctored, but they give a thrill. Enjoy the chills!

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A surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy's base at Pearl Harbor and on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands on December 7, 1941. It destroyed much of the American Pacific Fleet and brought the United States into World War II. The attack followed the decision of the Japanese government that Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration would not abandon China and Southeast Asia to the Japanese military nor

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Clever and creative ads are often very educative.

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All these pictures are brutal. And they all changed history. The images of Vietnam made public opinion turn against the war. The Abu Gharib picture turned the Arab world against the US. The question arose who was worse. The body of a U.S. serviceman is dragged with ropes through the dusty streets of war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, on Oct. 4, 1993. The dead soldier was one of five Americans killed

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Babi Yar is a ravine in northwestern Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine, where some 50,000 Jews were murdered in 1941. The Germans captured Kiev on September 19, 1941. A week later, they decided to massacre the city's Jews. On September 28, the Jews were ordered to assemble the next morning for resettlement. They were marched to the ravine, and as they reached the site, were forced to surrender

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This is an album which shows the human side of the Second World War. What the people of Poland went through when Germany attacked Poland and overran it within a month. The German attack was ruthless. the world had a taste of it earlier when Germany had attacked and overrun countries in Western Europe. On September 1, 1939, Poland was the country which had a taste of blitzkrieg. ----------------

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The Volksturm was the Nazi attempt to call on the last reserves. Those too young or too old for regular military service were called into service. The caption translates as "For freedom and life." NAZI PROPAGANDA "The enemy sees your light! Black out!" This in the later stages of the war as Allied aerial bombings increased. "Mothers!

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Germany in white, with the 100,000-man army permitted by the Treaty of Versailles, surrounded by heavily armed neighbors. The biblical overtone. An eagle hovers against the light of heaven over an idealized Hitler. The text: "Long live Germany!." A poster before the 1933 election. It reads "The Reich will never be destroyed if you are united

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The German U-Boat crew in happier times An U-Boat crew salutes the Nazi flag in 1944 "The Battle of the Atlantic was the only thing that ever frightened me." Winston Churchill. And the U-Boats played a big role in the Battle of Atlantic. The U27: First U-Boat launched by Nazi Germany in 1936 The first sea-going U-boat was U-27 launched in 1936. By 1939, a newer model had much better

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Scientists had always believed that a treasure awaited them at Mt. Bosavi in Papua New Guinea. The treasure of never-before-seen species of animal life. Animals unable to move beyond the 1,000-metre crater walls were thought likely to have evolved in distinct ways after thousands of years in isolation.In an extraordinary development an expedition led by Dr George McGavin from Oxford University's

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The Andes flight disaster is a remarkable story of human survival and also of 'survival' cannibalism. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, was a chartered flight carrying 45 rugby team members and associates that crashed in the Andes on 13 October, 1972. The last of the 16 survivors were rescued on December 23, 1972. More than a quarter of the passengers died

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March 27, 1977. Two Boeing 747s collide on a fog-shrouded runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in the worst accident in aviation history. Sixty-one people survive. The planes — Pan Am flight 1736 originating in Los Angeles and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight 4805, a charter from Amsterdam — crashed into each other on Los Rodeos Airport's single runway. Visibility on the

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Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) was a German pioneer of human aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make repeated successful gliding flights. His was an experimental approach first established earlier in the century by Sir George Cayley. Newspapers and magazines in many countries published photographs of Lilienthal gliding, favorably influencing public and

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War is hell. And there are no universal heroes in it. The Soviets became heroes in the eyes of the west when they fought the Nazis in the Second World war. But before Operation Barbarossa when Nazi Germany attacked Russia (Soviet Union), in 1939 the two countries signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty under which they carved up Poland amongst themselves. It was after the Soviet army defeated the

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Erwin Rommel was one of Germany’s most respected military leaders in World War Two. Rommel played a part in two very significant battles during the war – at El Alamein in North Africa and at D-Day. Rommel’s nickname was the ‘Desert Fox’ – a title given to him by the British. Rommel’s fame in the desert rests on his success as a leader and also his uncompromising belief that all prisoners of war

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The Battle for Stalingrad was the most crucial battle of the Second World War. It was the turning point. The tide turned against Nazi Germany. Make no mistake about it. Battle for Stalingrad was THE BATTLE of WW2. This was not admitted by most western historians as cold war was on and the smarter thing to do was to glorify only D-Day. Stalingrad saw man at his best and worst. The sheer grit,

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Battle for Stalingrad is perhaps the most important event of the entire World War Two. It was there that fortune turned her face away from Nazi Germany and smiled at Russia (and all the Allied Powers).The battle is important for it's ferocity, brutality and the grit of two nations, Germany and Russia.

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THE EASTERN FRONT The war inflicted huge losses and suffering onto the civilian populations of the affected countries. Behind the front lines, atrocities against civilians in German-occupied areas were routine, including the Holocaust. German and German-allied forces treated civilian populations with exceptional brutality, massacring villages and routinely killing civilian hostages. Both sides

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Dead German soldiers buried near Leningrad THE EASTERN FRONT The Eastern Front was by far the largest and bloodiest theatre of World War II, and generally accepted as the most costly conflict in human history at anywhere from 25-30 million dead as a result. It involved more land combat than all other World War II theatres combined. The Eastern front resulted in such staggering losses and

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THE EASTERN FRONT The enormous territorial gains of 1941 presented Germany with vast areas to pacify and administer. Some Soviet citizens, especially in the non-Russian republics, greeted their conquerors as liberators from Stalinist repression. But they were soon to learn that their new masters were every bit as repressive and brutal as the old. Nascent national liberation movements among

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THE EASTERN FRONT Atrocities against the Jewish population in the conquered areas began almost immediately, with the dispatch of Einsatzgruppen (task groups) to round up Jews and shoot them. Local anti-semites were encouraged to carry out their own pogroms. In July 1941 Erich von dem Bach-Zalewski's SS unit began to carry out more systematic killings, including the massacre of 30,000 at Babi

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It is acknowledged by most historians that the defeat of Hitler's army began when the tide turned on the Russian front. Given below are a set of great videos which describe The Battle For Leningrad. They also tell the story of why Hitler lost in Russia. VIDEO 1 VIDEO 2 VIDEO 3 VIDEO 4 VIDEO 5 VIDEO 6 VIDEO 7 VIDEO 8 VIDEO 9 VIDEO 10

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