Historian Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 On 9/1/2021 at 9:01 AM, pipedreams said: Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie “Schindler’s List”, standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners, 1943 When this man died...the world became cleaner. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 6 hours ago, pipedreams said: An image of a Red Cross Travel Document created for one Ricardo Klement, an alias of Adolf Eichmann. This document enabled Eichmann to leave Europe via Italy and travel to Argentina. I think he has at least one child still alive. The story of how Israel found and captured him is in the book, "Eichhmann in my hands." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 3, 2021 Author Share Posted September 3, 2021 This is a picture of Karl Silberbauer. He was the officer that found and captured Anne Frank and her friends in the Secret Annex. He was a member of the SS. The story of Silberbauer is important. Some might think that he was a cruel and inhuman monster who should have been hung outright as soon as he was identified as the man who arrested Anne Frank. That is an understandable feeling, based on the injustices of the world and the barbarity of the system in which he served. Simon Wiesenthal, the famed war criminal hunter, went to great lengths to find Silberbauer. He finally did. Silberbauer had returned to Austria and, after a jail sentence by the Russians due to his brutal interrogations of Communists, had been released. After many years of working to infiltrate possible terrorist groups for the government (basically as a continuation of his sentence), Silberbauer was rehabilitated and set free. He rejoined the Viennese police force, which is where Wiesenthal found him many years after the war. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 3, 2021 Author Share Posted September 3, 2021 Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and the only surviving member of the Frank family, revisited the attic they spent the war in. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 3, 2021 Author Share Posted September 3, 2021 “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank. Anne Frank’s diary in Amsterdam. The Franks in Frankfurt, Germany, 1933. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 2 hours ago, pipedreams said: “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank. She was such a perfect child. If war must be waged...let it be to save someone like this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Historian said: She was such a perfect child. If war must be waged...let it be to save someone like this. We saved a good many of them that time. Many more out there waiting for us. It's a burden that hangs heavy on those that have seen the need. We are but mere mortals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmohme Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 This is an amazing thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Fog said: We saved a good many of them that time. Many more out there waiting for us. It's a burden that hangs heavy on those that have seen the need. We are but mere mortals. That generation leaves me in awe. And we still find young people to fill their boots. Somethings are still right in America. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 4, 2021 Author Share Posted September 4, 2021 Auschwitz Guards: The faces that oversaw a genocide, 1940-1945 When they first joined do you think their intentions were to do what happened? Auschwitz—which was not a single camp, but a network of camps that both enslaved and killed Jews, Poles, political prisoners, Roma people, homosexuals, the mentally ill and disabled, and others. Various estimates indicate that the Auschwitz Auschwitz was garrisoned by 700 commanders and guards in 1941, about 2 thousand in June 1942, about 3 thousand in April 1944, and about 3,300 SS men and female overseers in August 1944. The peak figure came in mid-January 1945, in connection with the final evacuation of the camp, when there were 4,480 SS men and 71 female SS supervisors there. Throughout the entire period that the camp was in existence, a total of some 8,000 to 8,200 SS men and some 200 female guards served in the garrison. The records on the education of 1,209 Auschwitz SS guards indicate that they had received relatively little schooling. 70% of them had elementary education, 21,5% secondary, and 5.5% higher education. Among those with higher education, the majority were doctors or architects working in the SS construction offices. More members of the Auschwitz SS garrison stood trial in Poland than anywhere else. From 1946 to 1949, about 1 thousand people suspected of committing war crimes at Auschwitz were extradited to Poland, mostly from the American occupation zone in Germany. Charges were brought against 673 people, including 21 women. The most common sentences for lower-ranking members of the Auschwitz garrison were three years in prison (203 times, for 31.9% of all the sentences) and 4 years (111 times, 17.5%). Death and life sentences were relatively rare (41 times, 6.1%). At least 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945, and at least 1.1 million died. Overall 400,207 prisoners were registered in the camp: 268,657 male and 131,560 female. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 4, 2021 Author Share Posted September 4, 2021 A group photo of the mass murderers of Auschwitz: Josef Kramer, Josef Mengele, Richard Baer, Karl Höcker (from left; the man at right unidentified). A large group of SS officers visit a coal mine near Auschwitz. Karl Hoecker (right) with Richard Baer and Rudolf Hoess. When that camp was liberated by American troops, in April, Hoecker and Baer followed the advice of Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, which was that SS officers insinuate themselves among the troops, in the hope of being taken for ordinary soldiers. Hoecker joined a fighting unit that was captured by the British in northern Germany. He spent a year and a half in a POW camp, and was released, apparently because no one recognized him”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 An elephant on a British airbase moves a Corsair of the Far East Air Force. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 An elephant loads a fuel drum onto an American aircraft in India for the trip “Over the Hump” into China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 An elephant from the Amar circus plows a field in occupied France. 1941. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 A messenger dog with a spool attached to a harness for laying out new comm line. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 When New Yorkers heard about the D-Day invasion, 1944 By the time the sun rose in New York City on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first and second waves of American troops had come ashore under heavy German fire on the beaches of Normandy. Working under the command of General Eisenhower, an armada of 5,000 ships brought troops to the beaches of Normandy, one of the largest in military history. Almost 150,000 troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on that summer day, and approximately 20,000 of those by parachute. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 Two sailors smoke a cigarette as they apprehensively scan the latest news bulletins on the Times building. Two soldiers join the crowds as they expectantly wait for more updates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 Two men stand tersely on a street corner on the day that news broke. The packed noon mass at St. Vincent de Paul’s church. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 July of 1943, Allied Forces’ troops, guns and transport are rushed ashore, ready for action, at the opening of the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Sicily. During the invasion of Sicily by Allied forces, an American cargo ship, loaded with ammunition, explodes after being hit by a bomb from a German plane off Gela, on the southern coast of Sicily, on July 31, 1943 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 A U.S. reconnaissance unit searches for enemy snipers in Messina, Sicily, on August 1943. An Italian woman kisses the hand of a soldier of the U.S. Fifth Army after troops move into Naples in their invasion and advance northward in Italy, on October 10, 1943. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fnfalman Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Korean soldier fighting at D-Day in the Wehrmacht. He was conscripted into the imperial Japanese Army. Got captured by the Soviets and put in a gulags. Volunteered in the Red Army to get out of the gulags. Got captured by the Germans and volunteered… https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/koreans-captured-at-d-day.html/amp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fnfalman Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 OSS Deer Team and Uncle Ho with General Vo Nguyen Giap. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, Fnfalman said: Korean soldier fighting at D-Day in the Wehrmacht. At least one Japanese officer was killed in Normandy. He was obviously attached to the Germans for some reason. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fnfalman Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Historian said: At least one Japanese officer was killed in Normandy. He was obviously attached to the Germans for some reason. You mean reason like they’re allies and gave military liaisons? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Interesting. This was before Vatican Two. Note the priest is facing the tabernacle rather than the parish members. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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