tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52737623377713411732024-03-19T03:22:22.319-07:00History World War 2The Original Site Of Great War Images. Especially Of World War Two. Each Image Has A Story To Tell.embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-7152126975994129862011-01-14T22:48:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.544-07:00Fake Pictures Of German Brutality In Russia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Germans acted brutally in Russia during WW2. No doubt about that. But some of the pictures of Germans shown as totally inhuman and as monsters were fakes manufactured by the Soviet propaganda machine. Given below are a few such images.</i></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC5vgqOmI/AAAAAAAAJ4M/nciascw7dBs/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-pictures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC5vgqOmI/AAAAAAAAJ4M/nciascw7dBs/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-pictures.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The fake</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC6zJ79II/AAAAAAAAJ4Q/YiJWKcEKmTE/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC6zJ79II/AAAAAAAAJ4Q/YiJWKcEKmTE/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-001.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b>The real picture</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC7lWdyYI/AAAAAAAAJ4U/F1S26VZf7gs/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC7lWdyYI/AAAAAAAAJ4U/F1S26VZf7gs/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-002.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This one is a big fake. The couple seem to be Soviet actors.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUjCv1oxzy4Nqp0-Dsa7NdBKtY7btuPs4aEVT0FddO1mZyeiGRKJ7BDM4Bh4A2s1dysq44kBg6dg7pgBR01d0iW9CYF6PUjNI34CfCuVkRmGj-jpTYjN5PyzAKE3Ubn-WzD3Juvitql8U/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUjCv1oxzy4Nqp0-Dsa7NdBKtY7btuPs4aEVT0FddO1mZyeiGRKJ7BDM4Bh4A2s1dysq44kBg6dg7pgBR01d0iW9CYF6PUjNI34CfCuVkRmGj-jpTYjN5PyzAKE3Ubn-WzD3Juvitql8U/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-003.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>The fake</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge2wuTiqGq-UrE71nsmogX9B8dIWne2wm75akpH6ToSeahpACHs_nRc11UN08hxUkxlN0fdMy4JCmE1oMAcKOgMhUxDb9Zf7vLW9DViJaUiLmOzL29WzVhVpBhijOcuyqVOVTTBJ4OOP8/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge2wuTiqGq-UrE71nsmogX9B8dIWne2wm75akpH6ToSeahpACHs_nRc11UN08hxUkxlN0fdMy4JCmE1oMAcKOgMhUxDb9Zf7vLW9DViJaUiLmOzL29WzVhVpBhijOcuyqVOVTTBJ4OOP8/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-004.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>The real picture</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><br /><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">One of our readers, who preferred to remain anonymous, writes....</span></span></i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Dear Sirs,</span></i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">On the page of alleged "German Brutality" the photo of Dora-Mittelbau shows 1700 bodies KILLED BY US AIR ATTACKS the day before the US troops arrived. Other photos on that page show hanged partisans they do not mention the brutality of the Partisans...how partisans captured a German Hospital and impaled all the captured nurses through their vaginas on wooden paling fences. Or the captured soldiers the Partisans put meathooks through their jaws and hanged them , alive, in a tree, or the captured German soldiers they roasted alive like pigs over a fire....How do I know ? MY FATHER was in an SS Div on that front. He also told me how, after he was captured, how the Russians filmed & photographed one FAKE horror scene after the other using the German POWs as actors...they had no other choice</span></i></b></span></div><i><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">mit freundlichen Gruessen,</span></i></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Soldat</span></i></b></span></div></span></i></b></div></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-64520058439861796602011-01-13T04:39:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.548-07:00Nazi Germany's Toughest Fighters: SS Totenkopf Division<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrJpG18ZGCjgyOavWAAu49eLSb229i9xxpgfEAHHX-Fh0z_cEmqc_l_cowTf91pQgKoAZp8jCbvBI5fWxqWBHOdtaZ2SvD6X7pf69CV-7P4W-7uJqfan_eFaWwq3-TXpEvXiqFTDnk3Y/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-ww2-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrJpG18ZGCjgyOavWAAu49eLSb229i9xxpgfEAHHX-Fh0z_cEmqc_l_cowTf91pQgKoAZp8jCbvBI5fWxqWBHOdtaZ2SvD6X7pf69CV-7P4W-7uJqfan_eFaWwq3-TXpEvXiqFTDnk3Y/s200/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-ww2-logo.png" width="165" /></a></div><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">SS. The name sends shivers down one's spine. The term is associated with brutality and mass killings. This is a mistaken presumption. There were killers in the SS (Allgemeine SS), but the Waffen SS men were warriors. Though some of the SS divisions did commit massacres, there were some divisions like the Nord, Nordland which were clean.</span></b></i><br /><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i><br /><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">Not so clean was the Totenkopf Division. It was initially made up of men who were guards at concentration camps (SS Totenkpfverbande). The men were some of the most dedicated and fierce soldiers of the Third Reich. When things got desperate, the SS men were called in to do near impossible tasks. The fact that Germany survived for so many years after the hiding its armies got in Russia was because of the tough men of the Waffen SS. SS Totenkopf topped the list. We will talk about the other elite SS Divisions later. We start with the Totenkopf.</span></b></i><br /><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS7yI8v3t0I/AAAAAAAAJ3M/4DXNVRvv8U0/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS7yI8v3t0I/AAAAAAAAJ3M/4DXNVRvv8U0/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-003.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Totenkopf soldiers fire a 88mm mortar shell</span></i></b><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">TOTENKOPF: THE BAD BOYS </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"></span></i></b><br /><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></i></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Having missed the Polish campaign, Totenkopf was initially held in reserve during the assault into France and the Low Countries in May 1940. They were committed on 16 May to the Front in Belgium. The Totenkopf soldiers fought fanatically, suffering heavy losses.<br /><br />Within a week of this initial commitment the division's first war crime had already been committed. At Le Paradis 4th Kompanie, I Abteilung, commanded by SS-Obersturmführer Fritz Knöchlein, machine-gunned 97 out of 99 British officers and members of the Royal Norfolk Regiment after they had surrendered to them; two survived. After the war, Knöchlein was tried by a British Court and convicted for war crimes in 1948. He was sentenced to death and hanged.</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></i></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">VIDEO</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YraO7ljcF2I?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOQqJWa0rNFnbcH-pq2Sp6E3r9S8UxRqsEccoFT6YKv1blYnALF507MCqjcwK-VUKVuCEYi1G29lTHC5IjsHZgug0q78VfnyXMPAPIh-ooJID1upTtiiRU8_4WWziWVrwBk29OUWma2M/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-1941-russia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOQqJWa0rNFnbcH-pq2Sp6E3r9S8UxRqsEccoFT6YKv1blYnALF507MCqjcwK-VUKVuCEYi1G29lTHC5IjsHZgug0q78VfnyXMPAPIh-ooJID1upTtiiRU8_4WWziWVrwBk29OUWma2M/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-1941-russia.jpg" /></a></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">The division moves in the Soviet Union in 1941</span></i></b><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">TOUGH FIGHTERS </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"></span></i></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">During Autumn and Winter of 1941, the Soviets launched a number of operations against the German lines in the Northern sector of the Front. During one of these operations, the Division was encircled for several months near Demjansk in what would come to be known as the Demjansk Pocket. During these kessel battles, Totenkopf suffered so greatly that, due to its reduced size, it was re-designated Kampfgruppe Eicke. <i><b>The division was involved in ferocious fighting to hold the pocket. SS-Hauptsturmführer Erwin Meierdress of the Sturmgeschütze-Batterie (Assault Gun) Totenkopf formed a Kampfgruppe of about 120 soldiers and held the strategic town of Bjakowo despite repeated determined enemy attempts to capture the town.</b></i> During these battles, Meierdress personally destroyed several enemy tanks in his StuG III. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his actions during this period. In April 1942, the division broke out of the pocket and managed to reach friendly lines.</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_70Ifw1UC-cWFDhBpNUQ3dbQt1pF66sOywmu6m7_YYSVq7zuNMwEQYIPI8aU7t1E8BglRY3DaTjveOKWRX_RQYl5yncAap_4XPdm29swcqO52sff0UHKUL8YlwL7ORSdyRzPW2hidIX4/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-001.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_70Ifw1UC-cWFDhBpNUQ3dbQt1pF66sOywmu6m7_YYSVq7zuNMwEQYIPI8aU7t1E8BglRY3DaTjveOKWRX_RQYl5yncAap_4XPdm29swcqO52sff0UHKUL8YlwL7ORSdyRzPW2hidIX4/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-001.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">In action in France. 1940</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">In Early February 1943 Totenkopf was transferred back to the Eastern Front as part of Erich von Manstein's Army Group South. The division, as a part of SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser's SS-Panzerkorps, took part in the Third Battle of Kharkov, blunting the Soviet General Konev's offensive. During this campaign, Theodor Eicke was killed when his Fieseler Storch spotter aircraft was shot down while on final approach to a front line unit. <b>The division mounted an assault to secure the crash site and recover their commander's body, and thereafter Eicke's body was buried with full military honours.</b> Hermann Priess succeeded Eicke as commander.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTGsarsxNVI/AAAAAAAAJ44/3USNm-ftuxA/s1600/SS-TOTENKOPF-DVISION-EIKE-GERMAN-ELITE-FIGHTERS-WW2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTGsarsxNVI/AAAAAAAAJ44/3USNm-ftuxA/s1600/SS-TOTENKOPF-DVISION-EIKE-GERMAN-ELITE-FIGHTERS-WW2-002.jpg" /></a></div><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soldiers of the SS Division Totenkopf with their commander Theodor Eicke during the advance on Demjansk (23 September 1941)</span></b></i></div><br />VIDEO: DIE TOTENKOPF: PART 1<br /><br /><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ocb8ETtUKEM?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS7yLTNlT2I/AAAAAAAAJ3U/KZ2GD_Bo_Ns/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-002.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS7yLTNlT2I/AAAAAAAAJ3U/KZ2GD_Bo_Ns/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-002.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">SAD END OF THE SS TOTENKOPF</div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">By the end of 1942 the division had experienced virtually a complete turnover in personnel. The high casualty rates meant by late 1943 virtually none of the original cadre were left. <i><b>However, while the division's record in the brutal Eastern Front fighting to follow is quite clean, its reputation lingered</b></i>. The Totenkopf division didn't want to be captured by the Soviets, so they attacked the American 11th Armored Division. The Americans, who suffered heavy losses, were angered by this. <i><b>When the Totenkopf surrendered (to the Americans) they were turned over to the Soviets Linz in 1945. Those who were wounded or simply too exhausted to make it to Pregarten were executed by the Americans along the way</b></i> (some 80 in all suffered this fate). Another story in the aforementioned book states, "A convoy of ambulances drove by and picked up the dead and wounded behind the last tank of the long caterpiller. Apparently, the wounded comrades weren't handed over to the Russians. The ambulances turned around and headed back to Linz at high speed,' . <i><b>The senior officers were executed by the NKVD, others were also executed as they were shipped to Siberia. Only a few of them survived captivity to return to Germany.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS8EtF-tUGI/AAAAAAAAJ30/dv1dQyoG5ZM/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-battle-kursk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS8EtF-tUGI/AAAAAAAAJ30/dv1dQyoG5ZM/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-battle-kursk.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">In a huddle in Kursk</span></i></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">VIDEO: PART 2</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bqevB3ZrENs?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixqCBsZ5SLx2Flv6lBkTPAVKKcvP7lNsMCZt3XMIpw8GMWJUgz9y1cr9R2PD0z_0rGQxoQZAz1nVlBFkT9yruFD4tTbelzAVLFEEv1lWBE6ae48ttRu4TU6B8fHJpSMTjKQOGb3nXHmVk/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-004.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixqCBsZ5SLx2Flv6lBkTPAVKKcvP7lNsMCZt3XMIpw8GMWJUgz9y1cr9R2PD0z_0rGQxoQZAz1nVlBFkT9yruFD4tTbelzAVLFEEv1lWBE6ae48ttRu4TU6B8fHJpSMTjKQOGb3nXHmVk/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-004.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Directing traffic in Paris, Totenkopf style</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />VIDEO: PART 3<br /><br /><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DuYPp8XcG8Y?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg769m5K0T5I5LDJ2FaQsKA8r2LtzkGaUhmGZpfcBjvsc-9c-3xyx1I8Qk7ET_X6zXpiNEz3qmXv81SODGouW7S8jFwdGW8pmY-TtmenSZ17MLXPKWEfwTqIMjN_PiJfGcA2yxN7Re2KJU/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-005.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg769m5K0T5I5LDJ2FaQsKA8r2LtzkGaUhmGZpfcBjvsc-9c-3xyx1I8Qk7ET_X6zXpiNEz3qmXv81SODGouW7S8jFwdGW8pmY-TtmenSZ17MLXPKWEfwTqIMjN_PiJfGcA2yxN7Re2KJU/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-005.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Taking a breather</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></i></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcqwBDWq0utRibZOtUCdqwKh16f28jalMz6JeasdATPaR4nKjle2WnVZbPf5qAcY1MWN_zM67f2vIqGP7uggWN0e_VjgYRSuZN7L5vMy3eBQAqPhvIpQOizrvlg_xsFnwSa0AgC7-Ed8/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-himmler-inspection-kharkov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcqwBDWq0utRibZOtUCdqwKh16f28jalMz6JeasdATPaR4nKjle2WnVZbPf5qAcY1MWN_zM67f2vIqGP7uggWN0e_VjgYRSuZN7L5vMy3eBQAqPhvIpQOizrvlg_xsFnwSa0AgC7-Ed8/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-himmler-inspection-kharkov.jpg" /></a></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"> Himmler inspects in Russia</span></i></b><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS8EvuNaJ0I/AAAAAAAAJ38/4EqvkXG6xDw/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-junior-officer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS8EvuNaJ0I/AAAAAAAAJ38/4EqvkXG6xDw/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-junior-officer.jpg" /></a></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"> A junior officer in the Totenkopf</span></i></b><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS8ExDQKrYI/AAAAAAAAJ4A/PvDjQS7F5W8/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-russia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TS8ExDQKrYI/AAAAAAAAJ4A/PvDjQS7F5W8/s1600/SS-totenkopf-division-nazi-germany-russia.jpg" /></a></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">In Russia</span></i></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW0P0c7swfK4vOiiSxNpWkiAyFqJX3MFjVxv_x6FGPIcr7JLgNZNaSTg9Joxxs0Svohmp-KUvWH_G2z5mnmxmRXnaMKREnOzGEIcbtdXGS7BUTm9isspc0iStuaT023mptK9SYLdimxEU/s1600/6c05b7d6aeed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW0P0c7swfK4vOiiSxNpWkiAyFqJX3MFjVxv_x6FGPIcr7JLgNZNaSTg9Joxxs0Svohmp-KUvWH_G2z5mnmxmRXnaMKREnOzGEIcbtdXGS7BUTm9isspc0iStuaT023mptK9SYLdimxEU/s1600/6c05b7d6aeed.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">VIDEO: PART 4</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PTkkfjre7Og?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFI5De_ynI/AAAAAAAAJ4g/SVly-w7QClQ/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-battle-kursk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFI5De_ynI/AAAAAAAAJ4g/SVly-w7QClQ/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-battle-kursk.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">The men during Kursk atop a tank</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></i></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">VIDEO: PART 5</span><br /><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></i></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2wBIW1GiGb4?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgAkgO0OoZk6LVjHT7Z5j6JqHc4II6tPq2_1d2ae-KQxdEPFdkBmU_Ml-rdeNSGyVC47VDX3G_E2GpqoKBckeprKJhyQEd7NrxoGrxTk9m4VZFKKUgS_aANCq0U3pDrDGsJ1SU1E2Nw1Q/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgAkgO0OoZk6LVjHT7Z5j6JqHc4II6tPq2_1d2ae-KQxdEPFdkBmU_Ml-rdeNSGyVC47VDX3G_E2GpqoKBckeprKJhyQEd7NrxoGrxTk9m4VZFKKUgS_aANCq0U3pDrDGsJ1SU1E2Nw1Q/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-006.jpg" /></a></div><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">SS Totenkopf men move in Poland past a burning T-34 tank. (Picture by Grenart. Taken on Aug. 18, 1944) </span></b></i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPzyPjy-d2zkkVCV56-JiBCTsuzwhI2k3Y_CZcNhB56qLFdUbMjljdM2AG2aDloqc953rlUuXaKqnPsHvkYpouFc9CsHnuQRc6ZRASFSGyNO1382AfhXuwi097dTB0y1UbQ4uqGABHvk/s1600/GERMAN-TOUGHEST-FIGHTER-SS-TOTENKOPF-WW2-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPzyPjy-d2zkkVCV56-JiBCTsuzwhI2k3Y_CZcNhB56qLFdUbMjljdM2AG2aDloqc953rlUuXaKqnPsHvkYpouFc9CsHnuQRc6ZRASFSGyNO1382AfhXuwi097dTB0y1UbQ4uqGABHvk/s1600/GERMAN-TOUGHEST-FIGHTER-SS-TOTENKOPF-WW2-001.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b>Anti-tank unit of the Totenkopf. Russia. September 1941</b></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAEiOk1cn5iCKG1VqDh8JbaFDfi3U3_BLhw3weBomicbdFCWJ1tUimgDJck1b5_eCuvD24BF9t2ffDmi66ThqZdrJHfsaAbfkAy8rl8-nPZj6I5n95wVZtC9QppkXkplMRuhgAi5txPTY/s1600/GERMAN-TOUGHEST-FIGHTER-SS-TOTENKOPF-WW2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAEiOk1cn5iCKG1VqDh8JbaFDfi3U3_BLhw3weBomicbdFCWJ1tUimgDJck1b5_eCuvD24BF9t2ffDmi66ThqZdrJHfsaAbfkAy8rl8-nPZj6I5n95wVZtC9QppkXkplMRuhgAi5txPTY/s1600/GERMAN-TOUGHEST-FIGHTER-SS-TOTENKOPF-WW2-002.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>Soldiers of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf break for a meal beside the wreck of a Soviet T-34 somewhere in Romania, 1944.</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsqpvUyAnvES-sczkY3bfud9hx3D7Kd0VcbH02WSDejOYFXHjM9G3Rl_BlLP813Y3KoGrlPfcilOd26Rtlk6bG8TcVhYX1RCMHfuSxTfE2Pdr3B1W7hbFQvK_wtAXIp3MvtZftioPTAvY/s1600/GERMAN-TOUGHEST-FIGHTER-SS-TOTENKOPF-WW2-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsqpvUyAnvES-sczkY3bfud9hx3D7Kd0VcbH02WSDejOYFXHjM9G3Rl_BlLP813Y3KoGrlPfcilOd26Rtlk6bG8TcVhYX1RCMHfuSxTfE2Pdr3B1W7hbFQvK_wtAXIp3MvtZftioPTAvY/s1600/GERMAN-TOUGHEST-FIGHTER-SS-TOTENKOPF-WW2-003.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>Grenadiers of the 3rd SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf take cover from incoming artillery. Hungary, March 1945.</b></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFQ8pKjAhI/AAAAAAAAJ40/ndE_YvfUFBQ/s1600/GERMANT-TOUGHEST-FIGHTER-SS-TOTENKOPF-WW2-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFQ8pKjAhI/AAAAAAAAJ40/ndE_YvfUFBQ/s1600/GERMANT-TOUGHEST-FIGHTER-SS-TOTENKOPF-WW2-001.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"> <i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Motorcyclists (German: Kradschützen) from the SS Division Totenkopf during the invasion of Russia in September 1941.</b></i></span><br /><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></b></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoBIaMCdbV4friIFt29nPZnzI1OMm2uwIjXJC4V-8QVd3wreqr2Wtp82DRHuEUCNBB3aUafBHf2ETnhc9XdofdQZTFE0awA0-lz8In5z1q2a9S43MP8oiZsw32OBNmwiBIXkxrNOx3O64/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoBIaMCdbV4friIFt29nPZnzI1OMm2uwIjXJC4V-8QVd3wreqr2Wtp82DRHuEUCNBB3aUafBHf2ETnhc9XdofdQZTFE0awA0-lz8In5z1q2a9S43MP8oiZsw32OBNmwiBIXkxrNOx3O64/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-007.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Prisoners from the Totenkopf in France in 1944</span></b></i><br /><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></b></i><br /><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">----------------------------------</span> </span></b></i><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u><b>HISTORY BESTSELLER BOOKS</b></u></span><br /><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br /></span></b></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2840481715?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=2840481715"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvQB-45YyKfVBQWUfVb6MevLnnDQMXWqH82NmsVwcm8CDDSvjUa2C75SUjELVddrY8HkaiUczEfZNUfgJbd3PZ8jM7giWdIUzBfCPbHv3NnhBhMraArMtTjoN7HkuW1AqzZRkvPwuU00/s1600/totenkopf-SS-division-nazi-germany-elite-classic-fiercest-warriors-battle-kursk-charles-trang-book.jpg" /></a></div><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2840481715?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=2840481715">(CLICK ON IMAGE TO KNOW MORE AND BUY BOOK)</a></span></b></i><br /><i><b><br /></b></i><br /><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">To date, no one else has done an exhaustive photographic record of the 3rd SS until this book came along. 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Tens of millions of civilians from Poland to Ukraine, Lithuania to Belarus were starved, beaten, shot and gassed to death by the authorities and armies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.<br /><br /><i>Bloodlands</i> – impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material –<span style="font-weight: bold;"> is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades</span> and will surely become the reference in its field.”<br /><br />“Nearly seventy years after VE-Day, <span style="font-weight: bold;">World War Two continues to be perceived through a narrow Western perspective</span>, and many basic problems about the war of 1939-45 remain unresolved. In <i>Bloodlands</i> – which refers to the huge belt of territory between Germany and Russia – <span style="font-weight: bold;">Timothy Snyder examines the little known tract of the European continent that was scourged by Stalin as well as Hitler</span>, and reaches some disturbing conclusions.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> “A chillingly systematic study of the mass murder mutually perpetrated by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany…. A significant work of staggering figures and scholarship.”</span><br /><br />Timothy <i>Snyder’s Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin</i> forces a dramatic shift in these perceptions…. Among his other goals in Bloodlands, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mr. Snyder attempts to put the Holocaust in context—to restore it, in a sense, to the history of the wider European conflict. </span>This is a task that no historian can attempt without risking controversy. Yet far from minimizing Jewish suffering, Bloodlands gives a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine.”embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-41686563595180523232011-01-04T00:12:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.562-07:00Massacres By Russian Soldiers During WW2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><i>The eastern front was a hard place to be in. If the SS and gestapo did evil things in Russia, the Russian soldiers were no angels too. Here are some instances where German soldiers were massacred by the Russians. The Russians killed soldiers of other nations too.</i></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> And we do not mention here the <a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/2009/10/rape-of-german-women-after-germany-lost.html" style="font-weight: bold;">mass rapes in Berlin</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>which started in April 1945.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">VIDEO: RUSSIAN ATROCITIES IN SILESIA, FEB. 1945<br /><br /><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0nUKFAgi_3k?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">KATYN FOREST (Smolensk, 1939-40)</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />In 1939, during the Russian invasion of Poland, some 14,500 Polish officers were captured and interned in three P.O.W. camps in the Soviet Union. The next time the world heard of these prisoners was a news broadcast on April 13, 1943, from Radio Berlin. It stated that the German Army had discovered mass graves at Katyn, 18 kilometres north-west of Smolensk, near the village of Gneizdovo and containing the bodies of Polish officers. Eight graves were opened and 4,253 bodies exhumed. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">VIDEO: KATYN: PART 1</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5Y8VNDOBGJM?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">KATYN: PART 2</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/35qbDxZcjD0?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFWdMNkL4QcVi0j2hYTdbGVL61j1jBXUIqpKXRKlDXPVrSFEUIbCXy0to6Jh9IvZC0lmMAba0VdpqaIGASNRO57kd_aiJ2CmhOLb4Mhoe87X-442iIWj9qIRf9InqZibRzNN0FlEX7nQA/s1600/katyn-massacre-russian-soldiers-ww2-illustration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFWdMNkL4QcVi0j2hYTdbGVL61j1jBXUIqpKXRKlDXPVrSFEUIbCXy0to6Jh9IvZC0lmMAba0VdpqaIGASNRO57kd_aiJ2CmhOLb4Mhoe87X-442iIWj9qIRf9InqZibRzNN0FlEX7nQA/s1600/katyn-massacre-russian-soldiers-ww2-illustration.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">All were dressed in Polish uniforms, with badges of rank and medals intact. No watches or rings were found on the corpses. It was established that the bodies were of Polish officers from the camp at Kozielsk, situated in the grounds of a former Monastery, near Orel. Two other camps, at Starobielsk (3,891 men) and at Ostashkov (6,311 men) were wound up and closed in the first days of April, 1940. Whatever happened to these 10,000 odd officers has never been established. They were never seen alive again. From evidence obtained after the war, all prisoners of Kozielsk camp were shot by Stalin's NKVD.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSQkH4QWdNI/AAAAAAAAJ10/hBsckMLFm-I/s1600/katyn-massacre-russian-soldiers-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSQkH4QWdNI/AAAAAAAAJ10/hBsckMLFm-I/s1600/katyn-massacre-russian-soldiers-ww2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">On April 13, 1990, fifty years after the massacre, the USSR for the first time admitted its responsibility for the murders. The whole controversy was finally laid to rest when Boris Yeltsin, handed over the secret files on Katyn to the Polish president, Lech Walesa, on October 14, 1992. In May 1992, in a wood near Kharkov, a Russian private investigation team discovered a mass grave containing 3,891 bodies of Polish officers from the camp at Starobielsk in the Ukraine. In June of that year, Soviet authorities discovered 30 mass graves at Miednoje, one hundred miles north-west of Moscow. They contained the remains of 6,287 Polish prisoners from the Ostashkov island camp on Lake Seliguer. Before the massacre, 245 officers from Kozielsk, 79 from Starobielsk and 124 from the camp at Ostashkor , were transferred, for no apparent reason, to a camp at Pavlishchev Bor, a hundred miles north-west of the Kozielsk camp. These 448 officers proved to be the only survivors of the Katyn massacre. KGB files state that 21,857 Poles were shot as a result of Stalin's order. In other parts of the Katyn Forest, other graves were discovered containing the bodies of Russian political prisoners who were executed in pre-war days by the NKVD. It seems that the Katyn Forest was the main execution site for Stalin’s secret police. (Not to be confused with the Khatyn murder site near Minsk) All mention of the Katyn atrocity has been removed from Soviet history textbooks. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">VIDEO</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><i> </i><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X4guAZMuwGU?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"> </span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">MURDER AT BRONIKI, UKRAINE</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On July 1st 1941, around 180 German soldiers of the 2nd and 6th Infantry Regiments and the 5th Artillery Regiment were taken prisoner by the Red Army in the town of Broniki. Most were suffering from battle wounds. Next day, the 2nd of July, advancing Wehrmacht troops discovered 153 bodies in a clover field near the town. All had been brutally murdered. According to the twelve survivors of the massacre, they were taken to the field just off the main road and forced to undress. All valuables such as money, rings, watches as well as their uniforms, shirts and shoes were stolen. Standing there naked, the prisoners were then fired upon by machine guns and automatic rifles. A few managed to escape by fleeing to the nearby woods. Similar reports from other regiments gave rise to the suspicion that the Soviets, in the early stages of the war, were not taking any prisoners. There was a division order, according to which every Russian soldier who shoots twenty German soldiers, received a three day leave pass to go home. He also was decorated and raised in rank.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">VIDEO</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qPJX6tT1bXk?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">THE GRISCHINO MASSACRE (February 18, 1943)</div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The area of Grischino lies to the north-west of Stalino (now Donets) an important industrial region in the Ukraine. Occupied by German forces, it was recaptured by a Soviet armored division and again recaptured by the German 7th Armored Division during a counteroffensive in February, 1943. What they found was the bodies of 406 German soldiers, (POWs) 58 were members of the Todt Organization, 89 Italian soldiers, 9 Romanian soldiers, 4 Hungarian soldiers and some civilian workers, Ukrainian volunteers and German nurses. A total of 596 souls had been killed. Most were shot after being dragged from their hiding places in cellars. Many of the bodies were horribly mutilated, ears and noses cut off and genital organs amputated and stuffed into their mouths. Breasts of some of the nurses were cut off, the women being brutally raped. In the cellar of the main train station around 120 Germans were herded into a large storage room and then mowed down with machine guns. It was realized that the Russians had killed every single German they had found there. As with most massacres, there were survivors and in this case, civilian witnesses.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">During the week of 22/29 June, 1941, thousands of Ukrainian and Polish political prisoners were murdered in their cells by the Soviet NKVD (KGB). The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for all political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Soon after the German attack on the Soviet Union, the retreating Soviets had no time to care for their prisoners locked up in prisons in the Ukraine, so they were simply killed. In some cities the whole prison was set on fire and the helpless prisoners burned to death. In Lutsk, 2,800 out of the 4000 inmates in the NKVD prison, were murdered. When the German 49th Army Corps occupied the Polish-Ukrainian city of Lvov, (now Limberg) around 2,400 dead bodies were found by German troops in the NKVD prison. Some were killed by hand-grenades thrown into their cells, most were killed by a shot in the neck. In the cellars of the Brygidky Prison on Palczymska Street, 423 bodies were recovered. Hundreds more were piled up in the courtyard. In the military prison at Samarstinov, which had been set on fire, 460 charred bodies were found, many showing signs of brutal torture. In the cellars, bodies were piled up layer upon layer almost to the ceiling. Owing to the stench of the decomposing corpses, the German commander of Lvov ordered all doors to the cellars bricked up after the bodies were covered with lime. On June 26-27, 1941, some 520 Ukrainians were shot at Sambor, and at Zlochev, another 700, including the entire local intelligentsia, were arrested and shot on July 16, 1941. At Kremenets, between 100 and 150 were killed and when the bodies were recovered some bodies were without skin, having been thrown into boiling water.<br /><br />Altogether, in the Ukraine, around 10,000 Ukrainian and Polish political prisoners were killed in their prisons. It is a sad fact that many members of the NKVD execution squads in the Ukraine, were Jewish collaborators. These collaborators were hated by other Jews more than the German SS. (A memorial plaque at the former headquarters of the NKVD/KGB in Simferpol, Ukraine, is engraved with the names of thirty NKVD agents who gave their lives in the Great Patriotic War (the Soviet name for World War II). The amazing thing is that all thirty names are Jewish! About half a million Jews served in the Red Army and approximately 200,000 were killed. A total of 160,000 Jewish soldiers were decorated with Soviet awards, 145 receiving the highest Soviet award, 'Hero of the Soviet Union'. Two Jewish women were also awarded this honour. (Many Soviet soldiers, after capture, joined the Waffen SS. The 30th SS Division was composed of such troops)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">ATROCITY AT FEODOSIA (December 29, 1941)</div><br />On the shores of the Black Sea, on the Crimean Peninsula, stands the port city of Feodosia. On the 3rd of November the city was captured by the German 46th and 170th Infantry Divisions. As the attack on Sevastopol was about to take place, most of the German forces were withdrawn to concentrate on the forthcoming battle. Left behind in the city were a small detachment of troops and all the wounded soldiers convalescing in the city's hospitals. On the afternoon of December 29, the city was bombarded by the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and a landing was made by Soviet marines followed by infantry. On the 18th of January, 1942, after their failure to capture Sevastopol, the German Wehrmacht was able to return and recapture Feodosia. <i><b>They found that most of the German military personnel had been murdered. Wounded soldiers had been thrown out of the windows of the hospital to make room for Russian wounded. Water was then poured on the near dead bodies and then left to freeze. On the beach, piles of bodies were found where they were thrown from a wall several metres high after being beaten and mutilated, their bodies left in the surf so that the sea water froze and covered them with a sheet of ice. </b></i>There were some twelve survivors who had hidden in cellars when the Russian troops arrived. Their testimony before a German court of inquiry confirmed that some 160 wounded soldiers were liquidated this way.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">THE KORSUN SLAUGHTER (February 16-17, 1944)</div><br />During the freezing cold night of February 16, five divisions of General Hube's 1st SS Panzer Army, (54,000 men) including the 5th SS Division Viking and the Belgian Volunteer Brigade Wallonie, made a last desperate bid to break out of the Russian encirclement around the towns of Korsun and Shandrerovka in the lower Dnieper south-west of Kiev (Kyiv). At 4am, elements of the 8th Army formed up into two marching columns of around 14,000 men each and flocked into two parallel ravines in the surrounding countryside, and where the two ravines met, the troops, now in complete disorder, then emerged into open country and headed out towards the town of Lysyanka.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSQoT9Ua9eI/AAAAAAAAJ18/lWcLu_-_u0g/s1600/soviet-russian-soldiers-massacre-korsun-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSQoT9Ua9eI/AAAAAAAAJ18/lWcLu_-_u0g/s1600/soviet-russian-soldiers-massacre-korsun-ww2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />There, disaster struck as troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, under General Konev, were waiting. <i><b>Soon after 6am, the slaughter began. Soviet tanks drove into the two German columns crushing hundreds under their tracks. Fleeing in panic, the troops were then bombed and shelled before being confronted by units of Cossack cavalry who started hacking them to pieces with their sabres, There was no time to take prisoners and in the short space of three hours around 20,000 German soldiers lay dead, their bodies later dumped in holes dug in the ground. The hundreds of wounded and medical personnel left behind were butchered by the Cossacks.</b></i> Only a few officers survived, most had fled the scene by plane some days before. (Russian sources put the number of dead during the two weeks of fighting at over 70,000) To reach Lysyanka the troops had first to cross the raging Gniloy-Tikich river. Reaching the opposite side many were transformed into blocks of ice their uniforms frozen to their bodies. About eight thousand others, who had fled the scene and were hiding in the woods, were rounded up during the next few days and taken prisoner. For this great victory, General Konev was awarded the title 'Marshal of the Soviet Union'.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">--------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">During the fighting in Norway and Finland, the SS Gebirgsdivision 'Nord', was opposing the Russian forces. Very few SS men were taken prisoners by the Red Army, most were shot immediately. A report on Operation No 11 from the Soviet 26th Division states: '<b>The enemy left approximately 400 dead on the battlefield. Some 80 Germans had surrendered and were executed'.</b><br /><br />In the notes found on a Soviet doctor after he was captured, he had written:<b> 'All POWs who belonged to the German Army were executed during the operations near Odessa'.</b><br /><br />Soviet archives reveal the following: <b>'July 7, 1943, the enemy suffered great losses...we did not take any prisoners, they were all liquidated'.</b></div></div></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-58086930374510391462011-01-03T22:51:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.568-07:00When Americans And British (And Other Allies) Went 'Bad' During WW2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>If you believe that the Allied soldiers, American and British soldiers were angels compared to the evil German and Russian soldiers; you are mistaken. (I do not talk of the cruel nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nor of the terror bombing of Dresden in 1944)) World War Two did weird things to all the fighters of all nations. They too had the blood lust. Even the American and British soldiers. Below are instances when the 'good' Allied soldiers went bad. One hardly hears of them. But to be a impartial student of history one has to be single-minded in the devotion to fairness. Other wise it would not be history, but mere western propaganda.</i></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">MASSACRES BY BRITISH SOLDIERS</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>NAHRENDORF (Near Hamburg, 1945)</b><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A week after the discovery of the Belsen Concentration Camp, a rumour reached the British Army's 'Desert Rats' that the 18th SS Training Regiment of the Hitler Jugend Division, had shot their prisoners at the nearby village of Rather. The 'Rats' were engaged in a fierce battle with the SS defenders in the village of Nahrendorf. Slowly, and in groups, the SS began to surrender. <b>As the noise of battle died away the villagers emerged from their cellars and found the bodies of 42 SS soldiers lying in a shallow grave.</b> The bodies were then interned on a hilltop cemetery near the village. Each year, hundreds of SS veterans visit the cemetery to pay tribute to their fallen comrades whom, they say, were shot in cold blood on the orders of a ‘crazed blood-thirsty British NCO’. (Perpetrators are honoured, victims are forgotten)<br /><br />The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Cage">"London Cage"</a>, a MI19 prisoner of war facility in the UK during and immediately after the war, was subject to allegations of torture.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">MASSACRE BY AMERICANS</div><br />* The Dachau massacre: <b>killing of German prisoners of war</b> and surrendering SS soldiers at the Dachau concentration camp.<br />* In the Biscari massacre, which consist of two instances of mass murders, <b>U.S. troops of the 45th Infantry Division killed roughly 75 prisoners of war, mostly Italian.</b><br />* Operation Teardrop: Eight of the surviving, captured crewmen from the sunk German submarine U-546 are <b>tortured by US military personnel.</b> Historian Philip K. Lundeberg has written that the beating and torture of U-546's survivors was a singular atrocity motivated by the interrogators' need to quickly get information on what the US believed were potential missile attacks on the continental US by German submarines.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJwn56BT26tGo4gkkCWyh3w9QDg9AV3sa8JmLBVUBU6PX_nQ2kRrELdewv_ASuXoHMMbh7pi-1lNDKNS31eQVgUVm6VtNG1AbC3W_SYf6qSmlwS-QD3Qh7cBOlCAOj4YCUET4xMAGaVi4/s1600/AMERICAN-SOLDIERS-KILL-ss-DACHAU-APRIL-1945-MASSACRE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJwn56BT26tGo4gkkCWyh3w9QDg9AV3sa8JmLBVUBU6PX_nQ2kRrELdewv_ASuXoHMMbh7pi-1lNDKNS31eQVgUVm6VtNG1AbC3W_SYf6qSmlwS-QD3Qh7cBOlCAOj4YCUET4xMAGaVi4/s1600/AMERICAN-SOLDIERS-KILL-ss-DACHAU-APRIL-1945-MASSACRE.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> American soldiers killing SS guards at Dachau </span></b></div><br />In the aftermath of the Malmedy massacre a written order from the HQ of the 328th US Army Infantry Regiment, dated December 21, 1944, stated: <b>No SS troops or paratroopers will be taken prisoner but will be shot on sight. </b>Major-General Raymond Hufft (U.S. Army) gave instructions to his troops not to take prisoners when they crossed the Rhine in 1945. "After the war, when he reflected on the war crimes he authorized, he admitted,<i> 'if the Germans had won, I would have been on trial at Nuremberg instead of them.'"</i> Stephen Ambrose related: <i>"I've interviewed well over 1000 combat veterans. Only one of them said he shot a prisoner... Perhaps as many as one-third of the veterans...however, related incidents in which they saw other GIs shooting unarmed German prisoners who had their hands up."</i><br /><br />Near the French village of Audouville-la-Hubert 30 German Wehrmacht prisoners were massacred by U.S. paratroopers.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">VIDEO: AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILL GERMAN POW</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="283" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HD4bDHTHdpU?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Historian Peter Lieb has found that<b> many US and Canadian units were ordered to not take prisoners during the D-Day landings in Normandy.</b> If this view is correct it may explain the fate of 64 German prisoners (out of 130 captured) who did not make it to the POW collecting point on Omaha Beach on D-Day.<br /><br />According to an article in Der Spiegel by Klaus Wiegrefe, many <b>personal memoirs of Allied soldiers have been willfully ignored by historians until now because they were at odds with the "Greatest Generation" mythology</b> surrounding WWII, but this has recently started to change with books such as "The Day of Battle" by Rick Atkinson where he describes Allied war crimes in Italy, and "D-Day: The Battle for Normandy," by Anthony Beevor. Beevor's latest work is currently discussed by scholars, and should some of them be proven right <b>that means that Allied war crimes in Normandy were much more extensive "than was previously realized".</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">AMERICAN BRUTALITY IN THE PACIFIC<br /><br /></div><b> </b><br /><b>American soldiers in the Pacific often deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered.</b> According to Richard Aldrich, who has published a study of the diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. Dower states that in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds." <b>According to Aldrich it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners.</b> This analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U. S.] intelligence report noted that<b> only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese."</b><br /><br />Ferguson states such practices played a role in <b>the ratio of Japanese prisoners to dead being 1:100 in late 1944.</b> That same year, efforts were taken by Allied high commanders to suppress "take no prisoners" attitudes, among their own personnel (as these were affecting intelligence gathering) and to encourage Japanese soldiers to surrender. Ferguson adds that measures by Allied commanders to improve the ratio of Japanese prisoners to Japanese dead, resulted in it reaching 1:7, by mid-1945. Nevertheless, taking no prisoners was still standard practice among U. S. troops at the Battle of Okinawa, in April–June 1945.<br /><br />Ulrich Straus, a U.S. Japanologist, suggests that <b>frontline troops intensely hated Japanese military personnel and were "not easily persuaded" to take or protect prisoners, as they believed that Allied personnel who surrendered, got "no mercy" from the Japanese. </b>Allied soldiers believed that Japanese soldiers were inclined to feign surrender, in order to make surprise attacks. Therefore, according to Straus, "[s]enior officers opposed the taking of prisoners[,] on the grounds that it needlessly exposed American troops to risks..." When prisoners nevertheless were taken at Gualdacanal, interrogator Army Captain Burden noted that <b>many times these were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take him in".</b><br /><br />Ferguson suggests that "it was not only the fear of disciplinary action or of dishonor that deterred German and Japanese soldiers from surrendering. More important for most soldiers was the perception that prisoners would be killed by the enemy anyway, and so one might as well fight on."<br /><br />U. S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. POW compounds to two important factors, a Japanese reluctance to surrender and a <b>widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were "animals" or "subhuman'" and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to POWs.</b> The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that <b>"Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians—as Untermenschen."</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II">Source</a><br /></b><br /><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">AMERICAN SOLDIERS: STARVATION AT REMADEN<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpy1ihGQkMxNKdlURNxpwH6v-6MwTRMqoIx4hi8dR73jyyIMPq2Q6QlvJhCcSJaZxuq26O5qCatsfEEgu8kq7VIXZpV3sJym9awIEoRqOaQNbyVaQK7FpPWjiwyqFifeoIgpLk4d33d1c/s1600/sinzing-remaden-starvation-german-soldiers-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpy1ihGQkMxNKdlURNxpwH6v-6MwTRMqoIx4hi8dR73jyyIMPq2Q6QlvJhCcSJaZxuq26O5qCatsfEEgu8kq7VIXZpV3sJym9awIEoRqOaQNbyVaQK7FpPWjiwyqFifeoIgpLk4d33d1c/s1600/sinzing-remaden-starvation-german-soldiers-ww2.jpg" /></a></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">After the capture of the Remagen Bridge, the US Army hastily erected around 19 Prisoner of War cages around the bridge-head to hold an estimated one million prisoners. The camps were simply open fields surrounded by concertina wire. Those at the Rhine Meadows were situated at Remagen, Bad Kreuznach, Andernach, Buderich, Rheinbach and Sinzig. <i><b>The German prisoners were hopeful of good treatment from the GIs but in this they were sadly disappointed. Herded into the open spaces like cattle, some were beaten and mistreated. No tents or toilets were supplied. The camps became huge latrines, a sea of urine from one end to the other. They had to sleep in holes in the ground which they dug with their bare hands.</b></i> In the Bad Kreuznach cage, 560,000 men were interned in an area that could only comfortably hold 45,000. Denied enough food and water, they were forced to eat the grass under their feet and the camps soon became a sea of mud. After the concentration camps were discovered, their treatment became worse as the GIs vented their rage on the hapless prisoners.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>In the five camps around Bretzenheim, prisoners had to survive on 600-850 calories per day. With bloated bellies and teeth falling out, they died by the thousands. During the two and a half months (April-May, 1945) when the camps were under American control, a total of 18,100 prisoners died from malnutrition, disease and exposure.</b></i> This extremely harsh treatment at the hands of the Americans resulted in the deaths of over 50,000 German prisoners-of-war in the Rhine Meadows camps alone in the months just before and after the war ended.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Egduncan/massacres_axis.html#Germany">Source </a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">'SICK' BEHAVIOUR OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Some Allied soldiers collected Japanese body parts. </b>The incidence of this by American personnel occurred on "a scale large enough to concern the Allied military authorities throughout the conflict and was widely reported and commented on in the American and Japanese wartime press."<br /><br />The collection of Japanese body parts began quite early in the war, prompting a September 1942 order for disciplinary action against such souvenir taking. Harrison concludes that, since this was the first real opportunity to take such items (the Battle of Guadalcanal), "[c]learly, the collection of body parts on a scale large enough to concern the military authorities had started as soon as the first living or dead Japanese bodies were encountered."<br /><br />When Japanese remains were repatriated from the Mariana Islands after the war, roughly 60 percent were missing their skulls.<br /><br />In a memorandum dated June 13, 1944, the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) asserted that<b> "such atrocious and brutal policies," in addition to being repugnant, were violations of the laws of war</b>, and recommended the distribution to all commanders of a directive pointing out that "the maltreatment of enemy war dead was a blatant violation of the 1929 Geneva Convention on the sick and wounded, which provided that: After every engagement, the belligerent who remains in possession of the field shall take measures to search for wounded and the dead and to protect them from robbery and ill treatment."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkWqr06kkxleQHz2iBidgiZnkuzWBpiPJhpFycEHrWCcsDT3lsLXEbCamt9lGhavvd_x89X7Q_Sb-dyjTB9wqz6QLLWQD2EoJATMRHaQpiZQ349_Y3mKk2fSd67RU_VeJOu0GKlgalRA/s1600/AMERICAN-SOLDIER-WITH-JAPANESE-SKULL-WW2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkWqr06kkxleQHz2iBidgiZnkuzWBpiPJhpFycEHrWCcsDT3lsLXEbCamt9lGhavvd_x89X7Q_Sb-dyjTB9wqz6QLLWQD2EoJATMRHaQpiZQ349_Y3mKk2fSd67RU_VeJOu0GKlgalRA/s1600/AMERICAN-SOLDIER-WITH-JAPANESE-SKULL-WW2.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> American sailor with a Japanese skull</b></div><br />These practises were in addition also in violation of the unwritten customary rules of land warfare and could lead to the death penalty. The U.S. Navy JAG mirrored that opinion one week later, and also added that<b> "the atrocious conduct of which some US personnel were guilty could lead to retaliation by the Japanese which would be justified under international law".</b></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">THE DACHAU KILLINGS (April, 1945)<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">The Dachau Concentration Camp, near Munich, was liberated by US forces on the 29th. of April, 1945. First to enter the camp and confront the horror within was Private First Class John Degro, the lead scout of Company 1, 3rd Battalion, 157 Infantry Regiment, 45th Division of the US 7th Army. Prior to entering the camp, the troops had come upon a train of thirty nine cattle trucks parked just outside the camp. The train had come from Auschwitz in Poland after a journey of thirty days. The trucks were filled with the corpses of 2,310 Hungarian and Polish Jews who had died from hunger and thirst. Enraged, the Americans rounded up most of the SS guard complement of 560 men, hundreds of whom had already deserted. Included in the round-up was a detachment from the 5th SS Panzer 'Viking' Division sent to Dachau earlier to maintain security and replace those who had deserted. Guarded by angry GIs, one group of guards were lined up against a wall to await the appearance of their commander, SS Obersturmfüher Heindrich Skodzensky.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">When he appeared, dressed immaculately with polished boots, and giving the military salute, which was ignored by the US company commander, Lt. William Jackson, who ordered "Line this piece of shit up with the rest of 'em over there". <i><b>The GIs lost control and began shouting 'Kill em, kill em'. Filled with murderous rage and with tears streaming down his face, one GI of the 15th Infantry Regiment, opened fire with his machine-gun. After three bursts of raking fire, a total of 122 SS men lay dead or dying along the base of the wall. A few of the camp inmates, dressed in the familiar striped clothing and armed with .45 caliber pistols, then walked along the line of dead and dying guards and administrated the coup de grace to those still alive. Forty other guards were killed by revengeful inmates, some having their arms and legs torn apart. </b></i>At another site near the SS hospital, hundreds of German guards were machine gunned to death on the orders of the executive officer of Company 1, 3rd Battalion. Altogether, a total of 520 persons, acting as camp and tower guards, including many Hungarians in German uniforms and recently returned from the Eastern Front, were killed that day. The sad fact is that many of these guards were new arrivals at the camp and were not the real culprits, the truly guilty had already fled. <b style="color: #990000;">(Controversy rages to this day over just how many camp guards were killed at Dachau and different units of the US Army are still claiming the title 'First Liberators')</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">THE WEBLING ATROCITY (April, 1945)<br /></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"> On the same day that the Dachau Concentration Camp was discovered, a massacre took place in the little hamlet of Webling about ten kilometres from the camp. A Waffen-SS unit had arrived at the hamlet, which consisted of about half a dozen farm houses, barns and the Chapel of St. Leonhard, to take up defensive positions in trenches dug around the farms by French P.O.W. workers. Their orders were to delay the advance of American tanks of the 20th Armoured Division and infantry units of the 7th US Army which was approaching Dachau. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">The farms, mostly run by women (whose husbands were either dead, prisoners of war or still fighting) with the help of French POWs, came under fire on the morning of 29th April causing all inhabitants to rush for the cellars. One soldier of Company F of the US 222nd Infantry Regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Division, was killed as they entered the hamlet under fire from the Waffen-SS unit. The first German to emerge from the cellar was the owner of the farm, Herr Furtmayer. Informed by the French POWs that only civilians, not SS, were in hiding in the cellers, the GIs proceeded to round up the men of the SS unit. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><b>First to surrender was an officer, Freiherr von Truchsess, heading a detachment of seventeen men. The officer was immediately struck with a trenching tool splitting his head open. The other seventeen were lined up in the farmyard and shot. On a slight rise behind the hamlet, another group of eight SS were shot. Their bodies were found lying in a straight line with their weapons and ammunition belts neatly laid on the ground. This would suggest that the men were shot after they surrendered. Altogether, one SS officer and forty one men lay dead as the infantry regiment proceeded on their way towards Dachau.</b> Next day the local people, with the help of the French POWs, buried the bodies in a field to be later exhumed by the German War Graves Commission and returned to their families. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b style="color: #990000;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">DRESDEN (February 13/14, 1945)</div><br />This city of culture is situated on both sides of the Elbe river. Of no tactical or strategic value to the German war effort it was considered 'safe' from destruction by air attacks. By 1945 it became a shelter for some 350,000 refugees fleeing from the approaching Red Army. At the Yalta conference Stalin requested more action against cities such as Berlin, Leipzig and Chemnitz. No mention was made of Dresden. The fact that Dresden was chosen was because the Russians at that time were only fifty kilometres away from the city, much nearer to Dresden than than they were to Berlin, Leipzig or Chemnitz. No doubt Churchill was eager to impress the Soviet leader, Stalin. RAF and USAAF bombers devastated the city in the most concentrated incendiary attack of the war in Europe (Operation Thunderclap) <b>In all, 733 British bombers dropped 1,478 tons of high explosive bombs and 1,182 tons of incendiary bombs and 311 US Flying Fortresses dropped 771 tons of bombs on the city. Around 35,000 persons were reported as 'missing' after the fire-storm which engulfed the city and destroyed eleven square miles of its center including 14,000 houses, 22 hospitals, 72 schools and 31 department stores. By the 10th of March, 18,375 dead and 2,212 seriously injured were accounted for. The final death toll was expected to reach 25,000.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSLSThdd3GI/AAAAAAAAJ1w/gD9ldUi_z30/s1600/allies-brutal-ww2-dresden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSLSThdd3GI/AAAAAAAAJ1w/gD9ldUi_z30/s1600/allies-brutal-ww2-dresden.jpg" /></a></div><b> </b>In one of the city squares 6,865 bodies were cremated. Thousands of British and American prisoners-of-war were on work detail in the city from the large POW camp Stalag IVb at nearby Muehlberg. Casualties among the prisoners were fewer than a hundred. Around 200,000 refugees from the east were camped in the city's 'Grosser Garten'. It was estimated that about 1,300,000 people were in the city as the raid started. <b>The toll would have been much higher had not some bomber crews, knowing that thousands of refugees were in the city, deliberately jettisoned their bomb loads wide of the mark. </b>It is doubtful that the air attack on Dresden shortened the war by even one day. At this point of the war, Germany was on the brink of collapse so why give the still twitching corpse this one final brutal kick? Churchill was later to say <i>"The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing".</i> In 1956, Dresden in Germany and Coventry in England, (1,236 deaths) entered a twin-town relationship. (In 1956, the German Statistical Office estimated that German civilian dead, due to air raids throughout the war, to be around 410,000)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">VIDEO</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kQfzde8TQvE?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">THE EXPULSION TRAGEDY</div><br />The merciless revenge perpetrated on the entire German civilian population of Eastern Europe during the closing stages of the war, and for many months after, took the lives of over 2,100,000 ethnic German men, women and children. For generations these Germans had lived and toiled in areas that today are part of central and Eastern Europe. Around fifteen million of these Volksdeutsche were driven from their homes and ancestral lands in Poland, East Prussia, Silesia, Ukraine, Belarus and Serbia and forced back into the Allied occupied zones of Germany.<br /><br />This was the greatest forcible evacuation of people in European history. It is estimated that of the eight million Germans expelled from Poland around 1,600,000 died in the process. In Czechoslovakia, memories of the Lidice massacre inspired acts of revenge against German soldiers and civilians. Soldiers were disarmed, tied to stakes, doused with petrol and set alight. Wounded German soldiers in hospital were shot in their beds, others were hung up on lamposts in Wenzell Square and fires were lit beneath them so that they died the gruesome death of being roasted alive. These ethnic Germans lived in fear of the Russians but no one thought that the dreadful fate which awaited them would not even emanate from the Soviets at all but from their own neighbours, the Czechs!<br /><br />Thousands of innocent German residents were murdered in their homes by the Czechs, others were forced into interment camps where they were beaten and maltreated before being expelled. Bishop Beranek of Prague declared:<b> 'If a Czech comes to me and confesses to having killed a German, I absolve him immediately'. The Americans, utterly blind to the political consequences of allowing the Soviets to liberate Czechoslovakia, halted at the Karlsbad-Pilsen-Budweis line. </b>The Sudeten Germans now had no protection from the torrent of bestiality vented on them by the Czechs. In Brno, 25,000 German civilians were forced marched at gun-point to the Austrian border. There, the Austrian guards refused them entry, the Czech guards refused to re-admit them. Herded into an open field they died by the hundreds from hunger and cold before being rescued by the US 16th Tank Division on May 8th 1945. In the Russian occupied zones of Eastern Europe and in Germany, hundreds of thousands of civilian men and women, Poles, Czechs, Romanians and Germans, were transported to the Urals in the Soviet Union and used as slave labourers until released in the late 40s. <b>Mostly ignored by the world's press, the unimaginable suffering experienced by the expellees is largely unknown outside Germany, yet it was systematically carried out in a brutal fashion as official Allied policy in accordance with the decisions formulated at Yalta and Potsdam.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">RAMPAGE ON MONTE CASSINO</div><br />Monte Cassino fell to the Allies on May 18, 1944. After a four month struggle and the abbey bombed into ruins by the US Air Force, Polish troops of the 12th Lancers, 3rd Carpathian Division, raised their regimental flag over the ruins of the 6th century Benedictine Monastery situated high in the Apennines of central Italy. <b>The next night thousands of French Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian and Senegalese troops, attached to the French Expeditionary Corps, swarmed over the slopes of the hills surrounding Monte Cassino and in the villages of Ciociaria and Esperia, which is in the region of Lazio, raped every woman and girl that came within their sight. </b>Over 2,000 women, ranging in age from 11 years to 86 years suffered at the hands of these gang-raping soldiers as village after village was entered. Menfolk who tried to protect their wives and daughters were murdered without mercy, around 800 of them died. Two sisters aged 15 and 18 were raped by dozens of soldiers each. One died from the abuse, the other was still in a mental hospital in 1997, 53 years after the event. Most of the dwellings in the villages were destroyed and everything of value was stolen.<br /><br />Later in the war, these same troops raped around 500 women in the Black Forrest town of Freudenstadt, on April 17, 1945, after its capture. <b>In Stuttgart, colonial French troops, mostly African, but under the command of General Eisenhower, rounded up around 2,000 women and herded them into the underground subways to be raped. <span style="color: #cc0000;">In one week more women were raped in Stuttgart than in the whole of France during the four year German occupation. </span></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">ALLIED ATROCITIES </span><b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Allied troops, as well as Axis troops, committed terrible atrocities during the war. Some years after the war a mass grave was discovered just west of the city of Nuremberg. In it were the bodies of some 200 SS soldiers. It was not until 1976 that one of the bodies was positively identified. It was the body of SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Kukula, the commander of the 1st Battalion, 38th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment. <b>Autopsies on the other bodies showed that most had been shot at close range, the others beaten to death by the rifle butts of the US Seventh Army GIs. In the village of Eberstetten, 17 German soldiers of the 'Gotz von Berlichingen' Division were shot after they surrendered to US troops.</b><br /><br />On April 8, 1945, fourteen members of the 116th Panzer Division were marched through the streets of Budberg to the command post of the US 95th Infantry Division.<b> There, they were lined up and shot. </b>Three were wounded but managed to escape.<br /><br />On April 13, 1945, tanks of the US 97th or 78th Infantry Division were approaching the village of Spitze about fifteen miles east of Cologne. They came under fire from a 8.8 anti-tank gun which disabled one of the tanks. That night, the village was pounded by tank and artillery fire and at daybreak the US forces entered the village. All the inhabitants, about eighty, were gathered together in front of the church. Included in the eighty were twenty German soldiers, members of an anti-aircraft unit stationed in the village. <b>They were separated from the civilians and marched several hundred yards to a field just outside the village. There, they were lined up and mowed down by machine-gun fire.</b> Next day the US Army ordered the civilians to dig graves and bury the dead. On April 14, 1995, a memorial for the twenty victims was built near the spot.<br /><b></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>------------------------<br /></b></div><b><br /></b><br />At the village of Chenogne in Belgium a group of twenty-one German soldiers emerged from a burning building carrying a Red Cross flag. <b>Their intention was to surrender to the US forces but as they exited the doorway they were shot down by machine-gun and small arms fire. </b>This happened soon after the Malmedy Massacre on December 17, 1944.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------- </div><br /><b></b><br /><b><br /></b><br />During the Allied assault on Sicily, the largest of the Mediterranean islands, (July, 1943) a dozen unarmed civilians, including some children, were apprehended by US troops after the town of Canicatti surrendered. The civilians were reported to be looting after they had entered a bombed out soap and food factory and were filling buckets with liquid soap that had spilled on the ground.<b> At around 6pm, when an American officer, a lieutenant-colonel, and a group Military Police, accompanied by three interpreters, entered the factory the officer fired a series of shots from his automatic Colt-45 point blank into the crowd. He reloaded and fired again. Eight of the civilians, including an eleven year old girl, died. </b>The officer and soldiers then drove off.<b> Fearing reprisals from the residents of the town, the incident was hushed up for over sixty years.</b> Due to the efforts of Dr. Joseph S. Salemi of New York University, this atrocity was brought to light. The perpetrator of this crime, Lieutenant Colonel McCaffery, died in 1954. <b></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>CANADIANS</b></div><b><br /></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">During the fighting at Leonforte in July 1943, according to Mitcham and von Stauffenberg in the book The Battle of Sicily, The Loyal Edmonton Regiment killed captured German prisoners.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Kurt Meyer, of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, accused Canadian forces of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division during the 1944 Normandy campaign of breaching the Hague Conventions. He claims that on 7 June notes were found that ordered no prisoners to be taken, information confirmed by Canadian infantry under interrogation; that prisoners were not to be taken if they hindered operations. Hubert Meyer also confirms this story; he states that on 8 June a Canadian notebook was found that contained orders to not take prisoners if they impeded the attacking force. Kurt Meyer also calls upon evidence from Bernhard Siebken’s war crimes trial during which the allegation was made that <b>Canadian infantry shot, on at least one occasion, German soldiers who had surrendered during the campaign.</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> C.P. Stacey, the Canadian official campaign historian, reports that on 14 April 1945 rumours had been spread that the commanding officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada had been killed by a civilian sniper; <b>this resulted in the highlanders setting fire to civilian property within the town of Friesoythe in a case of reprisal.</b> <b>Stacey later wrote that the highlanders first removed German civilians from their property before setting the houses on fire</b>, he commented that he was "glad to say that [he] never heard of another such case".</span><br /><br /><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II">Wikipedia</a><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>------------------------------------------</b><br /><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>AMERICANS KILLED MEN OF SS TOTENKOPF IN 1945</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">When the Totenkopf surrendered (to the Americans) they were turned over to the Soviets Linz in 1945. Those who were wounded or simply too exhausted to make it to Pregarten were executed by the Americans along the way (some 80 in all suffered this fate).</div></div></div><b style="color: #990000;"> </b></div></div></div></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-84969730088185760662011-01-02T23:36:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.580-07:00German Brutality During WW2: Part 2: Russia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,";"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;">A word of caution. This article has a few images that may seem distressing. But we still carry them as we feel shrinking from our past hardly seems sensible.</span></b></i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Killing had become a science in Nazi Germany with German chemists, architects and toxicologists, mechanics and doctors. putting their joint effort for 'best' results.....</i></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">SOME FIGURES <b>(Number of soviet people killed by Germans during WW2)</b></span></span></div><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> * <b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Cambridge History of Russia by Dominic C. B. Lieven, Maureen Perrie, Ronald Grigor Suny, p.226</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> o Premature deaths under German occupation: 13.7M, including</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> + "killed in hot or cold blood": 7.4M, incl.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> + "taken to Germany and worked to death": 2.2M</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> + "died of overwork, hunger and disease": 4.1M</span></span></blockquote><a href="http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm">Source</a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------------------------------- </div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCXKeDHF3wqiTxC15pFR3agsgXUV10ZMtAdaIcoas-UxAn2U06YiOaVxrqF4l3yDBbeHPAcyoNWFJlOE-uCW5aC2jpECOYxYNlqU8dnKVTgMabvrpm1ounmRvXVIHNMcZHyMmoFUOJkM/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCXKeDHF3wqiTxC15pFR3agsgXUV10ZMtAdaIcoas-UxAn2U06YiOaVxrqF4l3yDBbeHPAcyoNWFJlOE-uCW5aC2jpECOYxYNlqU8dnKVTgMabvrpm1ounmRvXVIHNMcZHyMmoFUOJkM/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-001.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,";"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Nazi killers were taught in schools and giving training on how to efficiently kill millions....</i></span></div><div face="Georgia,""><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE UKRAINIAN MASSACRES (September 2, 1942)<br /><br />Due to partisan activity around the village Kortelisy in Ukraine, its entire population of 2,892 men, women and children were put to death by SS and SD execution squads helped by local pro-German Ukrainian police. The village was then razed and burned to the ground, the fires of which blazed for four days. All over Ukraine around 459 villages were destroyed with all or part of their population massacred. In the Volhynia province, villages suffered the same fate and in the Zhitomir province 32 villages were destroyed. There were at least 27 villages, in which every man, woman and child was killed and their houses completely destroyed. Most of the SS and SD units operating in the Ukraine consisted of locally recruited pro-German Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Estonians and White Russians. In all of central Russia there were only two regiments of German security police. The village of Bajki, in Belarus, whose inhabitants had originally welcomed the German troops as liberators from communist oppression, was burned to the ground when the Nazis retreated on January 22, 1944. Of the 1,011 inhabitants of the village, 987 were shot and the 120 houses of the village set on fire. (About one and a quarter million Jews perished in Ukraine during the Nazi occupation) </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ukPTliB5fcg?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe> </span><i> </i></span></div></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXSFYnLX-eGN_s6Yh2h911QRYQuo44q5FAP8KNrcQvjUhyphenhyphenK_ONY-R_dsCn1BR3cpAah73ptNCNmu0_F12ti9cjgFdl_vq2RAoyuM6SGlwlevyLDE5RvVn3_5y1i_gisSJcuXhuyVVTMUA/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXSFYnLX-eGN_s6Yh2h911QRYQuo44q5FAP8KNrcQvjUhyphenhyphenK_ONY-R_dsCn1BR3cpAah73ptNCNmu0_F12ti9cjgFdl_vq2RAoyuM6SGlwlevyLDE5RvVn3_5y1i_gisSJcuXhuyVVTMUA/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-002.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><i>Janowski camp commandant, Obersturmfiihrer Vilgauz, for sport and the pleasure of his wife and daughter fired a machine gun from the balcony of the Office of the camp on inmates who worked in shops, then handed the machine gun to his wife, and she also fired. Sometimes, to please his nine-year daughter Vilgauz had two - four year olds thrown up into the air and shot at them. The daughter applauded and shouted: "Daddy, more!" - And he fired...... </i></b></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">THE BALTIC EXECUTIONS<br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,";">Within two weeks of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on August 1, 1940, almost the entire intelligentsia of these countries had been liquidated. The German attack on these provinces forced the withdrawal of the Soviet troops and paved the way for Hitler's Einsatzgruppen to start their roundup of all resident Jews. About 3,000 had already fled with the retreating Red Army but the 57,000 left behind in Vilna, faced a terrifying future. Einsatzgruppen 'A' operated in the Baltic Provinces under the command of SS Major General Stahlecker who, after five months, reported to Himmler (Document 2273-PS) that 229,052 Jews had been shot. Thousands more were housed in ghettos as they were urgently needed for slave labour. In Duenaburg, on November 9, 1941, a total of 11,034 Jews were executed. At Libau, two weeks later, another 2,350 fell victim to SS bullets. In Lithuania, under the Nazi's, 136,421 Jews were put to death in numerous single actions by Lithuanian mercenaries with the help of the German police squads. In this total were 55,556 women and 34,464 children all shot to death in a deep moat surrounding the 19th century Tsarist Ninth Fort outside Kovno. In the White Russian Settlement Area, around 41,000 executions had taken place. In Vilna, around 32,000 Jews were murdered during the first six months of German occupation. When Vilna was liberated by the Red Army on July 13, 1944, a few hundred Jews who had been hiding in the surrounding forests suddenly appeared in the city square. Altogether, between three and four thousand Jews out of the original 57,000, survived in the concentration camps in Germany.</span><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> (The Einsatzgruppen, which followed behind the four German armies, consisted of 3,000 men. Their orders were to hunt down and kill Russia's five million Jews. The Wehrmacht could not intervene as these murderers were under the control of Himmler. By the end of the 1941-42 winter the SS had reported that 481,887 Jews had been liquidated in Russia)</b><span style="font-family: Georgia,";"> Pre-war Vilnius had 105 Synagogues and houses of prayer. Today, only one survives, it was used by the SS as a medical store. Ninety percent of Vilnuis Jews were murdered, only 24,000 survived. </span><b><i><br /></i></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7o16QQuI/AAAAAAAAJ00/MW0VBsfuPys/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7o16QQuI/AAAAAAAAJ00/MW0VBsfuPys/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-003.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>Witnesses at a Soviet Inquiry held after the war said children were torn apart in front of their mothers....</b></i></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">BABI YAR (September 29-31, 1941)</div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A picturesque ravine situated in the Syrets suburb of the city of Kiev (Kyiv). It was about three kilometres long, over fifty metres deep and separated from the residential area by the local Jewish cemetery and a civilian prison. Soon after the German takeover a series of horrific explosions rocked the city demolishing a number of buildings that housed the German administration and the army hierarchy. On September 26, the military governor, Major General Friedrich Georg Eberhardt, decided that in retaliation for the atrocity all the Jews in Kiev were to be put to death. There, on September 29, the SS Einsatzgruppe C, with the help of the Ukrainian police, herded the whole Jewish population of Kiev and the surrounding area into the ravine and systematically began to slaughter the entire 33,771 souls. <i><b>The killings took two whole days and nights the victims being machine-gunned and their bodies hurled into the ravine. A layer of sand then covered the corpses before the next batch of naked victims were brought in.</b></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil7OciUoaIACn1GtgUID4mNQfvZ4qXxEBNSzdbgsdAx_9ezIuQGHowtQlO3EjgZLnyRUgFM2upDE1gcYS96GlF4_9_9qEKW-3p-Vr7EVDtTmHWPnzqB8aBqnXmptP8p-u5VWjC4V7n6Dg/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-babi-yar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil7OciUoaIACn1GtgUID4mNQfvZ4qXxEBNSzdbgsdAx_9ezIuQGHowtQlO3EjgZLnyRUgFM2upDE1gcYS96GlF4_9_9qEKW-3p-Vr7EVDtTmHWPnzqB8aBqnXmptP8p-u5VWjC4V7n6Dg/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-babi-yar.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,";">In the months that followed, thousands of Gypsies and Russian POWs were slaughtered here. <i><b>In August, 1943, as the Soviet Army began its march westwards the decision was taken to erase all evidence of the mass killings, in fact to efface it from history.</b></i> Russian prisoners and 327 men, including 100 Jews, from the nearby slave camp at Syretsk began the task of digging up the bodies and cremating them. The remains were then burned in pyres, built on slab gravestones taken from the Jewish cemetery, each pyre containing around 2,000 corpses. This gruesome task ended on September 19, 1943. Only fourteen of the 327 slave labourers survived by escaping from Babi Yar.<i><b> Later, the SS brought in excavators and bulldozers and the ravine was again filled in. </b></i>In early October, Moscow informed the outside world of the discovery of the mass graves. The West, mistrustful of the Russians, dismissed the news as 'products of the Slavic imagination'. <i><b>During the 778 days of the German occupation of Kiev, many thousands of Russian POWs, Ukrainians, Gypsies and other nationalities, were murdered at Babi Yar.</b></i> Of a total population of around 900,000, only 180,000 were living in Kiev at the end of the German occupation. Nobody was ever brought to trial specifically for this atrocity. In 1976, a 15 metre high bronze memorial 'To the victims of Fascism' was unveiled on the site to commemorate the Russian POWs and the 'People of Kiev' who were killed there. However, no reference is made to the Jews or number of Jewish dead. </span><br /><i><b><br /></b></i><br /><i><b><a href="http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Egduncan/massacres_east.html#USSR">Source</a><br /></b></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7p5KFObI/AAAAAAAAJ04/3eUNncwZ6EM/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7p5KFObI/AAAAAAAAJ04/3eUNncwZ6EM/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-004.jpg" /></a></div><br />At Babi Yar hundreds of thousands of Russians were killed and buried<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7qwmmYGI/AAAAAAAAJ08/JbXeow3ANnU/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7qwmmYGI/AAAAAAAAJ08/JbXeow3ANnU/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-005.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>At Kerch in 1942, the Russians Army discovered a kilometer in length, 4 meters wide, 2 meters deep, which was filled with the corpses of women, children, elderly and adolescents. Near the moat were frozen puddles of blood. They were also littered with children's hats, toys, ribbons, cut off the buttons, gloves, bottle nipples, boots, galoshes with stumps of arms and legs and other body parts. All this was spattered with blood and brains. The killers shot a defenseless population with explosive bullets.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7rZEfa4I/AAAAAAAAJ1A/o4VyQwL3b2A/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7rZEfa4I/AAAAAAAAJ1A/o4VyQwL3b2A/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-006.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">A WITNESS AT BABI YAR</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>When we were brought to the antitank ditch and lined up, we still thought that we were brought here in order to get to sleep there or for digging new trenches. We did not believe that we were brought to be executed. . But when the first shot came at us from the automatic rifles, I realized that they were going to shoot us. I immediately rushed into the pit and crouched between the two corpses. . Unscathed I lay faint and dizzy almost until the evening. Lying in a pit, I heard some of the wounded screaming and the Germans shooting them: . Then, when the Germans went for lunch, one of our fellow villager from the pit shouted: "Get up, who are alive." I got up, and we both began to spread the dead, pull out survivors. I was covered in blood. Above the moat was a light mist and steam from the cooling pile of bodies, blood, and the last breath of dying. We pulled Naumenko Theodore and my father, but his father had been killed instantly by an explosive bullet in the heart. Late at night I got to my friends in the village Bagerovo and there waited for the arrival of the Red Army. </i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7sOxlh-I/AAAAAAAAJ1E/su_ob_1ftNE/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7sOxlh-I/AAAAAAAAJ1E/su_ob_1ftNE/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-007.jpg" /></a></div><br /><i><b>Russian children were poisoned by carbon monoxide in German cars - "gas chambers". </b></i><br /><br />In December 1942 on the orders of the Gestapo chief of Mikoyan-Shahar lieutenant Otto Weber was organized the killing of patients with bone tuberculosis; Soviet children who were undergoing treatment in sanatorium at Teberda. Witnesses said: <i>"On December 22, 1942 the first squad drove a German car into the resort. German soldiers pulled out of the sanatorium critically ill children aged three years, put them in piles into the car - these were kids who could not move, so they were not forced into the car, but stacked in tiers, then the door was shut and the gas (carbon monoxide) released into it, and left the resort.All of the children died, they were killed by the Germans and thrown into the gorge near Teberdskoe Gunachgira". </i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7tcW0ACI/AAAAAAAAJ1I/SV5Z-BHiulo/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7tcW0ACI/AAAAAAAAJ1I/SV5Z-BHiulo/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-008.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>A doctor from the city of Vilnius, testified: "In early 1943, from the camp at Birkenau were selected 164 boys and taken to a hospital, where with carbolic acid injections into the heart, all of them were killed." </b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7vzhEpsI/AAAAAAAAJ1M/9XvJK_5dzjA/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7vzhEpsI/AAAAAAAAJ1M/9XvJK_5dzjA/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-009.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b>In Bikernekskom woods on the outskirts of Riga, the Germans shot 46 500 civilians.</b><br /><br />Eyewitness Stabulnek M., who lives near the forest, said: <i>"On Friday and Saturday before Easter in 1942 buses with people carried all day and night people from the city to the woods. I counted 41 buses on Friday morning before noon near my house. Many residents, including myself, went into the woods to the place of executions. We saw there a large open pit, where women and children were shot. Some were naked some in underwear. The corpses of women and children had signs of torture and abuse - blood stains on their faces, bruises on their heads, some severed hands, fingers, eyes knocked out ... " </i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7yKNvsvI/AAAAAAAAJ1Q/0_BBTDOYd8w/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7yKNvsvI/AAAAAAAAJ1Q/0_BBTDOYd8w/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-010.jpg" /></a></div><br />Many people were buried alive.......<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">MASSACRE AT KUPYANSKA</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>"November 3, 1943.18,400 people WERE MURDERED IN THE CAMP. From the camp 8,400 people were taken and 10,000 people were driven from the city and from other camps ... The shooting began in the morning and ended late at night. The people were stripped naked. The SS men made groups of 50 and 100 people, took them to the trenches, laid them on the bottom of the ditch, face down and shot them with automatic weapons. More were shot on the corpses And this went on till the trenches were not filled ... " </i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7zGKxNcI/AAAAAAAAJ1U/EGlbs2QyU9E/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF7zGKxNcI/AAAAAAAAJ1U/EGlbs2QyU9E/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-011.jpg" /></a></div><br />Said the witness Matthew F. Seidel - <i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">we were forced to dig up and burn the corpses. Thus, at each fire, we laid about 3 thousands of corpses, sprinkled them with oil, put firebombs and torched them. Burning of corpses continued from late 1943 until June 1944. During this period 100,000 dead people were burned. </i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF700PtkbI/AAAAAAAAJ1Y/LyP8AWKnPoo/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF700PtkbI/AAAAAAAAJ1Y/LyP8AWKnPoo/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-012.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>At the Danzig Anatomical Institute trials were done of semi-industrial scale experiments for making soap from human bodies and how the tanning industry could use human skin</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF71yAeiZI/AAAAAAAAJ1c/a0N-xMuTdnw/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF71yAeiZI/AAAAAAAAJ1c/a0N-xMuTdnw/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-013.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">RUSSIAN P.O.W. MASSACRES</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Second only to the extermination of the Jews, the massacre of Russian prisoners of war must rank as the greatest of tragedies of World War II. During the first seven months of the Russian campaign, over three million Soviet soldiers were captured. By February, 1942, only 1,020,531 were still alive. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some two million had died of starvation and cold during their forced march to the rear (up to 400 kilometres). Out in the open, day and night, they fell by the wayside in their thousands. When finally they reached their POW enclosures and given their first real meal, they 'simply collapsed and lay dead on the floor'. <i><b>Starved to death in their POW cages, they died in the open, having eaten the last blade of grass. Many were reduced to a state of cannibalism after begging for a scrap of food or a cigarette. In one camp a German guard was killed and eaten and a dead dog, thrown over the wire fence, was pounced upon and torn to shreds with their bare hands, so desperate were the prisoners for food. </b></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thousands were tortured and then shot in concentration camps, or, as slave labourers, worked till they dropped in quarries and in factories. Of the 9,000 prisoners sent to the Buchenwald camp only 800 were alive when US troops liberated the camp in 1945. In the notorious Dachau camp, of the 10,000 Russian POWs who arrived there in 1941, only 150 were alive by mid-1942. By 1944, it is estimated that around 3,299,000 Russian prisoners of war were disposed of in this way. <i><b>At the end of May, 1944, there were a total of 5,160,000 Soviet soldiers in German custody. Of these, only 1,053,000 survived the war.</b></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF73K5sNWI/AAAAAAAAJ1g/qoRwFiPLSCI/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TSF73K5sNWI/AAAAAAAAJ1g/qoRwFiPLSCI/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-014.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>Some of the pictures in which the Germans appear totally inhuman were in fact fakes fabricated by the Russians. This is one such picture.</b></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiutOVvxytP_UQdIKu1Q44ukzgcmIfLQnxFPkGOBhiCtA-rFninWdcEDl4g3m9Lh8Lu46KipGCd4ZG8S37cYQCT9YtlKmFeoo7yGCOWZUsqhvtzCkNB4ueh1rn9dJPr4dQeOiUOvg2UxSc/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiutOVvxytP_UQdIKu1Q44ukzgcmIfLQnxFPkGOBhiCtA-rFninWdcEDl4g3m9Lh8Lu46KipGCd4ZG8S37cYQCT9YtlKmFeoo7yGCOWZUsqhvtzCkNB4ueh1rn9dJPr4dQeOiUOvg2UxSc/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-001.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b>This is the real picture</b></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIj9hemH7phuNqLnw37i11hNHB3mbRiJtkdnHz8gITDbu3DpnQJH7PjIDaoxURO0PoOtjxzmbjmLST50yHxGQK6fMqzkIjX9uUKsJcd4UIcj4TsRttvQURLRvJy1-fFKexf22sVeTO28k/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIj9hemH7phuNqLnw37i11hNHB3mbRiJtkdnHz8gITDbu3DpnQJH7PjIDaoxURO0PoOtjxzmbjmLST50yHxGQK6fMqzkIjX9uUKsJcd4UIcj4TsRttvQURLRvJy1-fFKexf22sVeTO28k/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-015.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b>RELATED.....</b><br /><br /><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/2010/11/brutal-germans-in-russia.html"><b>Brutal Germans During WW2 :Part 1</b></a></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-9763599270114574722010-12-20T06:23:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.589-07:00The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A History of Nazi Germany by WILLIAM L. SHIRER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/S3egC0zmHjI/AAAAAAAAHqk/L5wqcUNsfb4/s1600-h/rise-and-fall-of-the-third-reich-a-history-of-nazi-germany.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/S3egC0zmHjI/AAAAAAAAHqk/L5wqcUNsfb4/s320/rise-and-fall-of-the-third-reich-a-history-of-nazi-germany.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671728687?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0671728687"><b>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany</b></a><br />by WILLIAM L. SHIRER</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>An indispensable book for those interested in Nazi Germany and WW2. Simple, gripping style of writing. Not like a history textbook. Wealth of information and facts.<br /><br /></b></i><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">What They say About The Book</span></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hugh Trevor-Roper</span> The New York Times Book Review<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">John Gunther</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">One of the most spectacular stories ever told.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Theodore H. White</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A monumental work, a grisly and thrilling story.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Orville Prescott</span> The New York Times<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">One of the most important works of history of our time.<br /><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671728687?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671728687">The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=incrwarimag-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0671728687" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></span></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">More On The Book</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br />Published in 1960 during the height of the Cold War, Rise and Fall represents one of<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> the first and most comprehensive analyses of Hitler’s Germany</span>. When reading the book, it is important to remember the subtitle. It is “a history” of Nazi Germany, not “the history.” Even in 1100 pages, Shirer gives the reader a summary of Hitler’s rise and the European theater of war.<br /><br />William Shirer was a newspaper correspondent in Germany during Hitler’s ascent to absolute power. On occasion, he editorializes and lets his rage show through. In this case, just because he is angry does not mean he is inaccurate. One also has to remember it was written in 1960 with the wounds of the Second World War still fresh.<br /><br />Shirer, as a newspaperman, makes his book an exciting read.<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> It is a page-turner with forward narrative momentum like the best of thrillers. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671728687?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671728687">The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=incrwarimag-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0671728687" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></span></div><br /></div></div><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">Excerpts From The Book</span></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">NAZI GERMANY<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;"><br />Hitler began a long speech with a sop to the industrialists. "Private enterprise," he said, "cannot be maintained in the age of democracy; it is conceivable only if the people have a sound idea of authority and personality . . . All the worldly goods we possess we owe to the struggle of the chosen . . . We must not forget that all the benefits of culture must be introduced more or less with an iron fist." He promised the businessmen that he would "eliminate" the Marxists and restore the Wehrmacht (the latter was of special interest to such industries as Krupp, United Steel and I. G. Farben, which stood to gain the most from rearmament). "Now we stand before the last election," Hitler concluded, and he promised his listeners that "regardless of the outcome, there will be no retreat." If he did not win, he would stay in power "by other means . . . with other weapons." Goering, talking more to the immediate point, stressed the necessity of "financial sacrifices" which "surely would be much easier for industry to bear if it realized that the election of March fifth will surely be the last one for the next ten years, probably even for the next hundred years."<br /><br />All this was made clear enough to the assembled industrialists and they responded with enthusiasm to the promise of the end of the infernal elections, of democracy and disarmament. Krupp, the munitions king, who, according to Thyssen, had urged Hindenburg on January 29 not to appoint Hitler, jumped up and expressed to the Chancellor the "gratitude" of the businessmen "for having given us such a clear picture." Dr. Schacht then passed the hat. "I collected three million marks," he recalled at Nuremberg.<br /><br /></span><br /><div style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">REICHSTAG FIRE<br /><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"> The coincidence that the Nazis had found a demented Communist arsonist who was out to do exactly what they themselves had determined to do seems incredible but is nevertheless supported by the evidence. The idea for the fire almost certainly originated with Goebbels and Goering. Hans Gisevius, an official in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior at the time, testified at Nuremberg that "it was Goebbels who first thought of setting the Reichstag on fire," and Rudolf Diels, the Gestapo chief, added in an affidavit that "Goering knew exactly how the fire was to be started" and had ordered him "to prepare, prior to the fire, a list of people who were to be arrested immediately after it." General Franz Halder, Chief of the German General Staff during the early part of World War II, recalled at Nuremberg how on one occasion Goering had boasted of his deed.</span> <br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 85%;">At a luncheon on the birthday of the Fuehrer in 1942 the conversation turned to the topic of the Reichstag building and its artistic value. I heard with my own ears when Goering interrupted the conversation and shouted: "The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!" With that he slapped his thigh with the flat of his hand.*</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><center><table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" style="height: 53px; width: 394px;"><tbody><tr> <td width="100%"><span style="font-size: 85%;">*Both in his interrogations and at his trial at Nuremberg, Goering denied to the last that he had any part in setting fire to the Reichstag.<br /></span></td> </tr></tbody></table></center> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><br />Van der Lubbe, it seems clear, was a dupe of the Nazis. He was encouraged to try to set the Reichstag on fire. But the main job was to be done—without his knowledge, of course—by the storm troopers. Indeed, it was established at the subsequent trial at Leipzig that the Dutch half-wit did not possess the means to set so vast a building on fire so quickly. Two and a half minutes after he entered, the great central hall was fiercely burning. He had only his shirt for tinder. The main fires, according to the testimony of experts at the trial, had been set with considerable quantities of chemicals and gasoline. It was obvious that one man could not have carried them into the building, nor would it have been possible for him to start so many fires in so many scattered places in so short a time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">SURRENDER OF FRANCE</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>(Hitler's face) "is afire with scorn, anger, hate, revenge, triumph."</b><br /><br /><i>William Shirer was a radio reporter for CBS News. We join his story as he stands in a clearing in the forest of Compiegne next to the railroad car where the ceremony will take place. Hitler and his entourage arrive just moments before the ceremony:</i><br /><br />"The time is now three eighteen p.m. Hitler's personal flag is run up on a small standard in the centre of the opening.<br /><br />Also in the centre is a great granite block which stands some three feet above the ground. Hitler, followed by the others, walks slowly over to it, steps up, and reads the inscription engraved in great high letters on that block. It says:<br /><br />"HERE ON THE ELEVENTH OF NOVEMBER 1918 SUCCUMBED THE CRIMINAL PRIDE OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE... VANQUISHED BY THE FREE PEOPLES WHICH IT TRIED TO ENSLAVE."<br /><br />Hitler reads it and Goring reads it. They all read it, standing there in the June sun and the silence. I look for the expression on Hitler's face. I am but fifty yards from him and see him through my glasses as though he were directly in front of me. I have seen that face many times at the great moments of his life. But today! It is afire with scorn, anger, hate, revenge, triumph. He steps off the monument and contrives to make even this gesture a masterpiece of contempt. He glances back at it, contemptuous, angry - angry, you almost feel, because he cannot wipe out the awful, provoking lettering with one sweep of his high Prussian boot. He glances slowly around the clearing, and now, as his eyes meet ours, you grasp the depth of his hatred. But there is triumph there too - revengeful, triumphant hate. Suddenly, as though his face were not giving quite complete expression to his feelings, he throws his whole body into harmony with his mood. He swiftly snaps his hands on his hips, arches his shoulders, plants his feet wide apart. It is a magnificent gesture of defiance, of burning contempt for this place now and all that it has stood for in the twenty-two years since it witnessed the humbling of the German Empire.<br /><br />...It is now three twenty-three p.m. and the Germans stride over to the armistice car. For a moment or two they stand in the sunlight outside the car, chatting. Then Hitler steps up into the car, followed by the others. We can see nicely through the car windows. Hitler takes the place occupied by Marshal Foch when the 1918 armistice terms were signed. The others spread themselves around him. Four chairs on the opposite side of the table from Hitler remain empty. The French have not yet appeared. But we do not wait long. Exactly at three thirty p.m. they alight from a car. They have flown up from Bordeaux to a near-by landing field. ...Then they walk down the avenue flanked by three German officers. We see them now as they come into the sunlight of the clearing.<br /><br />...It is a grave hour in the life of France. The Frenchmen keep their eyes straight ahead. Their faces are solemn, drawn. They are the picture of tragic dignity. They walk stiffly to the car, where they are met by two German officers, Lieutenant-General Tippelskirch, Quartermaster General, and Colonel Thomas, chief of the Fuhrer's headquarters. The Germans salute. The French salute. The atmosphere is what Europeans call "correct." There are salutes, but no handshakes.<br /><br />Now we get our picture through the dusty windows of that old wagon-lit car. Hitler and the other German leaders rise as the French enter the drawing-room. Hitler gives the Nazi salute, the arm raised. Ribbentrop and Hess do the same. I cannot see M. Noel to notice whether he salutes or not.<br /><br />Hitler, as far as we can see through the windows, does not say a word to the French or to anybody else. He nods to General Keitel at his side. We see General Keitel adjusting his papers. Then he starts to read. He is reading the preamble to the German armistice terms. The French sit there with marble-like faces and listen intently. Hitler and Goring glance at the green table-top.<br /><br />The reading of the preamble lasts but a few minutes. Hitler, we soon observe, has no intention of remaining very long, of listening to the reading of the armistice terms themselves. At three forty-two p.m., twelve minutes after the French arrive, we see Hitler stand up, salute stiffly, and then stride out of the drawing-room, followed by Goring, Brauchitsch, Raeder, Hess, and Ribbentrop. The French, like figures of stone, remain at the green-topped table. General Keitel remains with them. He starts to read them the detailed conditions of the armistice.<br /><br />Hitler and his aides stride down the avenue towards the Alsace-Lorraine monument, where their cars are waiting. As they pass the guard of honour, the German band strikes up the two national anthems, Deutschland, Deutschland uber Alles and the Horst Wessel song. 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Their sacrifices, struggles, courage and compassion live on in the taut, gripping film Rolling Stone calls “unique and unforgettable” and which won – among 4 Academy Award nominations* including Best Picture – the Oscar for Best Sound Editing (2006).<br /><br /><div style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><b>TRAILER</b><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="283" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dr59K1j-P44?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>BUY DVD</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B003ASLJPY&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>BUY BLU RAY</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000O77RLE&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>2 DISC SPECIAL</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00005JPKE&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-726591473645680812010-12-17T01:05:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.600-07:00Best War Films: "HURT LOCKER"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQsm-oO37WI/AAAAAAAAJv0/JPpmOYzLEeo/s1600/BEST-WAR-FILMS-THE-HURT-LOCKER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQsm-oO37WI/AAAAAAAAJv0/JPpmOYzLEeo/s1600/BEST-WAR-FILMS-THE-HURT-LOCKER.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">War is a drug. Nobody knows that better than Staff Sergeant James, head of an elite squad of soldiers tasked with disarming bombs in the heat of combat. To do this nerve-shredding job, it’s not enough to be the best: you have to thrive in a zone where the margin of error is zero, think as diabolically as a bomb-maker, and somehow survive with your body and soul intact. Powerfully realistic, action-packed, unrelenting and intense, The Hurt Locker has been hailed by critics as “an adrenaline-soaked tour de force” (A.O. Scott, The New York Times) and “one of the great war movies.” (Richard Corliss, Time)</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><div style="color: blue;"><b>TRAILER</b></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="283" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2GxSDZc8etg?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>BUY BLU RAY</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00275EGX8&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>BUY DVD</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00275EGWY&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-10831316974231076962010-12-17T00:22:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.603-07:00Best War Films: BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004XPPC?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00004XPPC"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQsbfb7IHII/AAAAAAAAJvw/XjsJXvnwNWI/s1600/best-war-films-bridge-on-the-river-kwai.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Director David Lean's masterful 1957 realization of Pierre Boulle's novel remains a benchmark for war films, and a deeply absorbing movie by any standard--like most of Lean's canon, The Bridge on the River Kwai achieves a richness in theme, narrative, and characterization that transcends genre.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes obsessed with building that bridge, provides the story's thematic spine; the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the project, led by a British major (Jack Hawkins) and guided by an American escapee (William Holden), supplies the story's suspense and forward momentum.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shot on location in Sri Lanka, Kwai moves with a careful, even deliberate pace that survivors of latter-day, high-concept blockbusters might find lulling--Lean doesn't pander to attention deficit disorders with an explosion every 15 minutes. Instead, he guides us toward the intersection of the two plots, accruing remarkable character details through extraordinary performances. Hayakawa's cruel camp commander is gradually revealed as a victim of his own sense of honor, Holden's callow opportunist proves heroic without softening his nihilistic edge, and Guinness (who won a Best Actor Oscar, one of the production's seven wins) disappears as only he can into Nicholson's brittle, duty-driven, delusional psychosis. His final glimpse of self-knowledge remains an astonishing moment--story, character, and image coalescing with explosive impact.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Like Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai has been beautifully restored and released in a highly recommended widescreen version that preserves its original aspect ratio.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><div style="color: blue;"><b>TRAILER</b></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="283" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/t5hZ4Xv5VjE?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>BLU RAY</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0017OB12O&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>DVD</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00004XPPC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>2 DISC COLLECTOR'S ITEM</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0016K40KO&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-53213795403558242362010-12-16T23:58:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.605-07:00Best War Films: "BRAVEHEART"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQsV_wqwT5I/AAAAAAAAJvs/__s91-e_kkM/s1600/best-war-films-braveheart-mel-gibson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQsV_wqwT5I/AAAAAAAAJvs/__s91-e_kkM/s1600/best-war-films-braveheart-mel-gibson.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: blue;">Mel Gibson fights for the independence of Scotland form English rule</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson.<br /><br />He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed.<br /><br />There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. Extremely moving, it reveals Gibson as a multitalented performer and remarkable director with an eye for detail and an understanding of human emotion. (His first directorial effort was 1993's Man Without a Face.)<br /><br />The film is nearly three hours long and includes several plot tangents, yet is never dull. This movie resonates long after you have seen it, both for its visual beauty and for its powerful story.<br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>TRAILER</b></div><br /><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vBXBtORI7pE?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>BUY DVD</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000W8OM5Y&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>BLU RAY</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000NQRE0K&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>VHS</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=079213690X&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_873901493"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I3PERS?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000I3PERS"><b>RENT THE FILM</b></a></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-17111884297170035422010-12-16T23:35:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.608-07:00Best War Films: "GLORY"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000051YMQ?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000051YMQ"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQsRITrGBFI/AAAAAAAAJvo/mWu51nsIdMk/s1600/best-war-films-glory-american-war-of-independence.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One of the very best films about the Civil War, this instant classic from 1989 is also one of the few films to depict the participation of African American soldiers in Civil War combat. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Based in part on the books Lay This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard, the film also draws from the letters of Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick), the 25-year-old son of Boston abolitionists who volunteered to command the all-black 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Their training and battle experience leads them to their final assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina, where their heroic bravery turned bitter defeat into a symbolic victory that brought recognition to black soldiers and turned the tide of the war. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With painstaking attention to historical detail and richness of character, the film boasts superior performances by Denzel Washington (who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, and Andre Braugher. Directed by Edward Zwick (cocreator of the TV series thirtysomething), this unforgettable drama is as important as Schindler's List in its treatment of a noble yet little-known episode of history.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #990000;">TRAILER </b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="283" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8XuUGD7aa3E?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="color: #990000;"><b>BUY DVD</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0800177967&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>BLU RAY</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000KX0ISQ&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: blue;"><b>SPECIAL EDITION</b></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000JRYOP6&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-13152693785195836922010-12-16T22:49:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.611-07:00Best War Films: "FULL METAL JACKET"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQsFXSgYPgI/AAAAAAAAJvk/wAZiyGy6GhM/s1600/full-metal-jacket-best-war-films-stanley-kubrick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQsFXSgYPgI/AAAAAAAAJvk/wAZiyGy6GhM/s1600/full-metal-jacket-best-war-films-stanley-kubrick.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b>TRAILER</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WAvWQa64B8M?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />BUY DVD<br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000P0J09C&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br />BUY IN BLU-RAY<br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000UJ48UO&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br />DELUXE WIDE SCREEN<br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000YAG00A&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AMNL2Q?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B001AMNL2Q"><u><b>RENT THE FILM</b></u></a></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-47596504942462537882010-12-15T23:07:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.614-07:00Best War Films: 'SAVING PRIVATE RYAN'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQm40Mtv-9I/AAAAAAAAJvg/aWi57OUlyUo/s1600/best-war-movies-saving-private-ryan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQm40Mtv-9I/AAAAAAAAJvg/aWi57OUlyUo/s1600/best-war-movies-saving-private-ryan.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Steven Spielberg's new picture, one of his best, is a sandwich. The meat of the tale concerns a bunch of U.S. Army Rangers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), who are sent into Normandy to rescue Ryan (Matt Damon), the sole survivor of four brothers. On either side of this bold endeavor you get half an hour of unyielding combat: first, the D Day landings on Omaha Beach and, later, a consummate last stand in which too few Americans try to hold an inland bridge against too many Germans and too many tanks. Most viewers will be impressed but unsurprised by the central section; it feels wrought, and finely scripted (by Robert Rodat), and nudged by sentimentality. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The reason that they will carry the movie lodged in their minds is the infernal, brain-shaking quality of the battle scenes; Spielberg obviously decided that blood and guts meant just that, and so he arranged his violence into a semblance of pure disorder. The illusion holds, complete with severed limbs and wellsprings of blood, and it feels honorable; Spielberg's preachy movies can be an awful grind, but, apart from a disposable coda, this new work is too swift (and often too inaudible) to weigh you down. 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Director Jean-Jacques Annaud captures this madness with urgent authenticity, creating a massive context for a more intimate battle waged amid the city's ruins. Embellished from its basis in fact, the story shifts to an intense cat-and-mouse game between a Russian shepherd raised to iconic fame and a German marksman whose skill is unmatched in its lethal precision. Vassily Zaitzev (Jude Law) has been sniping Nazis one bullet at a time, while the German Major Konig (Ed Harris) has been assigned to kill Vassily and spare Hitler from further embarrassment.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There's love in war as Vassily connects with a woman soldier (Rachel Weisz), but she is also loved by Danilov (Joseph Fiennes), the Soviet officer who promotes his friend Vassily as Russia's much-needed hero. This romantic rivalry lends marginal interest to the central plot, but it's not enough to make this a classic war film. Instead it's a taut, well-made suspense thriller isolated within an epic battle, and although Annaud and cowriter Alain Godard (drawing from William Craig's book and David L. Robbins's novel The War of the Rats) fail to connect the parallel plots with any lasting impact, the production is never less than impressive. Highly conventional but handled with intelligence and superior craftsmanship, this is warfare as strategic entertainment, without compromising warfare as a manmade hell on Earth.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #990000;">TRAILER </b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dUVqSCH8Fho?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="color: #990000;"><u><b>BUY DVD</b></u></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00003CXRA&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: red;"><u><b>BUY BLU-RAY</b></u></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B001U0HAZC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: red;"><u><b>WIDE SCREEN</b></u></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B001S3M26I&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035JPVXY?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B0035JPVXY"><u><b>RENT THIS FILM</b></u></a></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-90449812946780529992010-12-15T22:30:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.621-07:00Best War Films: 'BLACK HAWK DOWN'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMLJhHTNbpcchcLPptFubK9gr3WLzvgDdAZNOr37mCpo2f-0CGb154fpY37prPSxmBPaWXIHNH3R6l-oQz50NEkAYlgKaEqXNzbf7xRzKq9GlGBPwiPWydX8BrsnERRpSdNaAKVX-wMw/s1600/BEST-WAR-FILMS-BLACK-HAWK-DAWN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMLJhHTNbpcchcLPptFubK9gr3WLzvgDdAZNOr37mCpo2f-0CGb154fpY37prPSxmBPaWXIHNH3R6l-oQz50NEkAYlgKaEqXNzbf7xRzKq9GlGBPwiPWydX8BrsnERRpSdNaAKVX-wMw/s1600/BEST-WAR-FILMS-BLACK-HAWK-DAWN.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Based on author Mark Bowden's bestselling account of the battle, Scott's riveting, action-packed film follows a sharp ensemble cast in some of the most authentic battle sequences ever filmed. 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Defiance is a riveting adventure that showcases the extraordinary true story of the Bielski brothers, simple farmers –outnumbered and outgunned- who turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters. Tuvia, along with his unyielding brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), motivate hundreds of civilians to join their ranks against the Nazi regime. Their “Inspirational story”* is a true testament to the human spirit. - <b>David Densby, The New Yorker</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><div style="color: red;"><b>TRAILER</b></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WYZ2oYDSKHA?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></b></div><br /><div style="color: #990000; text-align: center;"><u><b>BUY DVD</b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B001FB55J4&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #990000; text-align: center;"><u><b>BUY BLU-RAY</b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B001FB55JO&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #990000; text-align: center;"><u><b>BUY 'DEFIANCE' AND 'ENEMY AT THE GATE'</b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0039OD6OQ&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-56357980234395644722010-12-13T00:40:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.626-07:00Best War Movies: 'VALKYRIE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TUZG4K?ie=UTF8&tag=incrwarimag-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B001TUZG4K"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXZjqi8k_I/AAAAAAAAJuo/5vhIyrqPJGk/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-007.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> Tom Cruise plays von Stauffenberg, the Wehrmacht officer who almost assassinated Hitler</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXZoma1u9I/AAAAAAAAJus/zl4I-MQRpnQ/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXZoma1u9I/AAAAAAAAJus/zl4I-MQRpnQ/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-001.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unpretentious and dramatically straightforward, Valkyrie is a suspenseful yet ennobling story about the last attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler prior to the end of World War II. Tom Cruise is effective if a little opaque as hero Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who channels his anger at Hitler's atrocities and mismanagement of the war by joining a secret organization bent on killing the Führer. When the outspoken Stauffenberg hits on the idea of linking Hitler's death with an official policy to safeguard Berlin during a government crisis--a contingency plan called "Valkyrie"--the group realizes a post-assassination coup could be covered by rapidly implementing the plan. History tells us the plot failed, of course, and Hitler killed himself months later. But that doesn't stop Cruise or director Bryan Singer from approaching the film as a thinking person's thriller, told from inside the conspirators' camp, where the outcome of their deeds were uncertain for several tense hours.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXZpijP55I/AAAAAAAAJuw/y3M_IDMOmHo/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXZpijP55I/AAAAAAAAJuw/y3M_IDMOmHo/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-002.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the tradition of <i>The Great Escape</i>, <i>Valkyrie</i> is a war movie full of famous faces, including Kenneth Branagh, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard. (The lesser-known David Bamber is very good as Hitler, hunched and cracking under pressure.) The film's gravity is offset a bit by the fun of seeing all these actors in a factually-based slice of history, and by a few, interesting stylistic flourishes on Singer's part, including the peculiarly unsettling image of a mosquito sizzled to death in close-up.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYsBq3-IlngkdISZ4SfTdidYiBe2zao_4tkbALhZxJCNlOQCR3J0M38tD7a-vxaZFpGakddLFxfZfFq_DoYhY2px_OyrT_x0RWXYH25ZFfDVttMiHXMv8tQeEH9Y04TVPuyHw6VVwg87Y/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYsBq3-IlngkdISZ4SfTdidYiBe2zao_4tkbALhZxJCNlOQCR3J0M38tD7a-vxaZFpGakddLFxfZfFq_DoYhY2px_OyrT_x0RWXYH25ZFfDVttMiHXMv8tQeEH9Y04TVPuyHw6VVwg87Y/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-003.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As a history buff, I was compelled to see this film from the get go. The fact that critics were particularly brutal led me to believe this was indeed an excellent film. I was very pleased to see it stuck to the facts even if some of the details are rather mundane. The cinematography does an excellent job at placing you in the era as if you were a bystander to the events before you.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXZr21d6JI/AAAAAAAAJu4/Xys1snhXXlY/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXZr21d6JI/AAAAAAAAJu4/Xys1snhXXlY/s1600/valkyrie-best-war-movies-004.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The acting was simply top notch. Tom Cruise elevated himself with his performance. He was quite believable and true to the accounts of Colonel Stauffenberg. I reject the accounts by critics that this was a Gerry McGuire performance in uniform. The supporting cast is award worthy. it is rare to find a cast that works so seamlessly together. I believe the director deserves particular credit for this achievement.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bottom line, Valkyrie is a top quality film worthy of your time. 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Bruno (Asa Butterfield) knows that his father is a soldier and that they have to move to a new house in the country... a house near what he thinks is a farm. But his father isn't just a soldier; he's a high-ranking officer in Hitler's elite SS troops who's just been placed in command of Auschwitz. As Bruno explores the woods around the house, he discovers the concentration camp's perimeter fence. On the other side sits a boy his own age, with whom Bruno strikes up a friendship--a friendship that will have tragic consequences.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is most powerful in the details: The casual brutality of a Nazi lieutenant; the uncomfortable juxtaposition of the family's domestic life with glimpses of the treatment of the imprisoned Jews; a ghastly propaganda film suggesting that life at Auschwitz was like a holiday. 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Broadly based on the book by Australian writer Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List gets underway in 1939 after Hitler's army conquers Poland. Nazi supporter Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson, delivering the standout performance of his career) arranges to staff a major company with unpaid Jews ultimately destined for extermination, among them accountant Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), who becomes his right-hand man. The initially mercenary Schindler gradually becomes attuned to the plight of his workers and arranges to employ nearly 1,000 Jews in his crockery plant -- an effort that requires his careful handling of ghastly Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), who runs the forced-labor camp housing the doomed people. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>For this film Spielberg eschews his customary storytelling techniques, using black-and-white film for a gritty look and shooting much of the footage with handheld cameras, documentary style. </b>Period detail is replicated with astonishing accuracy, and you'll get the sense of being right there alongside the characters. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The film is extremely long -- well over three hours -- but it unfolds with such urgency that you're never conscious of its length. 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Through interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archive film and records, this six-part series unveils a more chilling reality.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"> <b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">BUY DVD </b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00097DY66&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-57675112164956637012010-12-12T22:44:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.636-07:00BEST SELLING WW2 DVDS: 'The World At War'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXAfl2k4eI/AAAAAAAAJuY/htj_6O0L5vc/s1600/the-world-at-war-laurence-olivier-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQXAfl2k4eI/AAAAAAAAJuY/htj_6O0L5vc/s1600/the-world-at-war-laurence-olivier-001.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">More than 30 years after its initial broadcast, THE WORLD AT WAR remains the definitive visual history of World War II. Narrated by Academy Award winner Laurence Olivier and digitally re-mastered for DVD, this is epic history at its absolute best.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unsurpassed in depth and scope, its 26 hour-long programs feature an extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished perspective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants--from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines--add spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already unforgettable viewing experience.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQW-DpVDPfI/AAAAAAAAJuU/lCa8Wpy9ghY/s1600/the-world-at-war-laurence-olivier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TQW-DpVDPfI/AAAAAAAAJuU/lCa8Wpy9ghY/s1600/the-world-at-war-laurence-olivier.jpg" /></a></div>Informative and unbiased, THE WORLD AT WAR is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an International Emmy Award, The National Television Critic's Award for Best Documentary, and knighthood for its creator, Sir Jeremy Isaacs. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> BUY DVD </b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=incrwarimag-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0002F6AH0&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div>embekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03371080795553287695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273762337771341173.post-28010366873409180002010-11-30T23:46:00.000-08:002011-04-03T06:33:09.639-07:00Brutal Japanese: Rape Of Nanking 1937<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><i>The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, is a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period, hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.</i></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1vv8w8NI/AAAAAAAAJrE/wWG4agChqZo/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1vv8w8NI/AAAAAAAAJrE/wWG4agChqZo/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-001.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">HOW IT HAPPENED</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In August 1937, the Japanese army invaded Shanghai and there they met strong resistance and suffered heavy casualties. The battle was bloody as both sides faced attrition in urban hand-to-hand combat. By mid-November the Japanese had captured Shanghai with the help of naval bombardment. The General Staff Headquarters in Tokyo initially decided not to expand the war due to heavy casualties incurred and the low morale of the troops. However, on December 1, headquarters ordered the Central China Area Army and the 10th Army to capture Nanking, then-capital of the Republic of China.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After losing the Battle of Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek knew the fall of Nanking would be simply a matter of time. He and his staff realized that he could not risk annihilation of their elite troops in a symbolic but hopeless defense of the capital. In order to preserve the army for future battles, most of them were withdrawn. Chiang Kai-shek's strategy was to follow the suggestion of his German advisers to draw the Japanese army deep into China utilizing China's vast territory as a defensive strength. Chiang planned to fight a protracted war of attrition by wearing down the Japanese in the hinterland of China.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Leaving General Tang Shengzhi in charge of the city for the Battle of Nanking, Chiang and many of his advisors flew to Wuhan, where they stayed until it was attacked in 1938.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In a press release to foreign reporters, Tang Shengzhi announced the city would not surrender and would fight to the death. Tang gathered about 100,000 soldiers, largely untrained, including Chinese troops who had participated in the Battle of Shanghai. To prevent civilians from fleeing the city, he ordered troops to guard the port, as instructed by Chiang Kai-shek. The defense force blocked roads, destroyed boats, and burnt nearby villages, preventing widespread evacuation.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Chinese government left for relocation on December 1, and the president left on December 7, leaving the fate of Nanking to an International Committee led by John Rabe.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The defense plan fell apart quickly. Those defending the city encountered Chinese troops fleeing from previous defeats such as the Battle of Shanghai, running from the advancing Japanese army. This did nothing to help the morale of the defenders.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc9f731PWI/AAAAAAAAJsE/wtWJujY83uk/s1600/rape-massacre-nanjing-nanking-1937-brutal-japanese-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc9f731PWI/AAAAAAAAJsE/wtWJujY83uk/s1600/rape-massacre-nanjing-nanking-1937-brutal-japanese-001.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>The Japanese army enters Nanking</b></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eyewitness accounts of Westerners and Chinese present at Nanking in the weeks after the fall of the city state that over the course of six weeks following the fall of Nanking, Japanese troops engaged in rape, murder, theft, arson, and other war crimes. Some of these accounts came from foreigners who opted to stay behind in order to protect Chinese civilians from harm, including the diaries of German John Rabe and American Minnie Vautrin. Other accounts include first-person testimonies of the Nanking Massacre survivors, eyewitness reports of journalists (both Western and Japanese), as well as the field diaries of military personnel. An American missionary, John Magee, stayed behind to provide a 16 mm film documentary and first-hand photographs of the Nanking Massacre.<br /><br />A group of foreign expatriates headed by John Rabe had formed the 15-man International Committee on November 22 and mapped out the Nanking Safety Zone in order to safeguard civilians in the city, where the population numbered from 200,000 to 250,000. Rabe and American missionary Lewis S. C. Smythe, secretary of the International Committee and a professor of sociology at the University of Nanking, recorded the actions of the Japanese troops and filed complaints to the Japanese embassy.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPdGkhS7AyI/AAAAAAAAJsQ/iKBJEtZQtqk/s1600/rape-massacre-nanjing-nanking-1937-brutal-japanese-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPdGkhS7AyI/AAAAAAAAJsQ/iKBJEtZQtqk/s1600/rape-massacre-nanjing-nanking-1937-brutal-japanese-003.jpg" /></a></div><b style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Japanese tanks enter Nanking</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1w0Y434I/AAAAAAAAJrI/9_3cBQxT3pY/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1w0Y434I/AAAAAAAAJrI/9_3cBQxT3pY/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-002.jpg" /></a></div>The International Military Tribunal for the Far East estimated that 20,000 women were raped, including infants and the elderly. A large portion of these rapes were systematized in a process where soldiers would search door-to-door for young girls, with many women taken captive and gang raped. The women were often killed immediately after the rape, often through explicit mutilation or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina.<br /><br />On 19 December 1937, Reverend James M. McCallum wrote in his diary:<br /><br /><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know not where to end. Never I have heard or read such brutality. Rape! Rape! Rape! We estimate at least 1,000 cases a night, and many by day. In case of resistance or anything that seems like disapproval, there is a bayonet stab or a bullet ... People are hysterical ... Women are being carried off every morning, afternoon and evening. The whole Japanese army seems to be free to go and come as it pleases, and to do whatever it pleases.<br /><br />On March 7, 1938, Robert O. Wilson, a surgeon at the American-administered University Hospital in the Safety Zone, wrote in a letter to his family, "a conservative estimate of people slaughtered in cold blood is somewhere about 100,000, including of course thousands of soldiers that had thrown down their arms".</blockquote><br />Here are two excerpts from his letters of 15 and 18 December 1937 to his family:<br /><blockquote><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The slaughter of civilians is appalling. I could go on for pages telling of cases of rape and brutality almost beyond belief. Two bayoneted corpses are the only survivors of seven street cleaners who were sitting in their headquarters when Japanese soldiers came in without warning or reason and killed five of their number and wounded the two that found their way to the hospital.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Let me recount some instances occurring in the last two days. Last night the house of one of the Chinese staff members of the university was broken into and two of the women, his relatives, were raped. Two girls, about 16, were raped to death in one of the refugee camps. In the University Middle School where there are 8,000 people the Japs came in ten times last night, over the wall, stole food, clothing, and raped until they were satisfied. They bayoneted one little boy of eight who have [sic] five bayonet wounds including one that penetrated his stomach, a portion of omentum was outside the abdomen. I think he will live.</div></blockquote><br />In his diary kept during the aggression to the city and its occupation by the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Safety Zone, John Rabe, wrote many comments about Japanese atrocities. For the 17th December:<br /><blockquote><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Two Japanese soldiers have climbed over the garden wall and are about to break into our house. When I appear they give the excuse that they saw two Chinese soldiers climb over the wall. When I show them my party badge, they return the same way. In one of the houses in the narrow street behind my garden wall, a woman was raped, and then wounded in the neck with a bayonet. I managed to get an ambulance so we can take her to Kulou Hospital ... Last night up to 1,000 women and girls are said to have been raped, about 100 girls at Ginling College Girls alone. You hear nothing but rape. If husbands or brothers intervene, they're shot. What you hear and see on all sides is the brutality and bestiality of the Japanese soldiers.</div></blockquote><br />There are also accounts of Japanese troops forcing families to commit acts of incest. Sons were forced to rape their mothers, fathers were forced to rape daughters. One pregnant woman who was gang-raped by Japanese soldiers gave birth only a few hours later; although the baby appeared to be physically unharmed (Robert B. Edgerton, Warriors of the Rising Sun). Monks who had declared a life of celibacy were also forced to rape women.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1x8uzk5I/AAAAAAAAJrM/Hu6T3zUvuRQ/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1x8uzk5I/AAAAAAAAJrM/Hu6T3zUvuRQ/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-003.jpg" /></a></div><br />On 13 December 1937, John Rabe wrote in his diary:<br /><br /><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is not until we tour the city that we learn the extent of destruction. We come across corpses every 100 to 200 yards. The bodies of civilians that I examined had bullet holes in their backs. These people had presumably been fleeing and were shot from behind. The Japanese march through the city in groups of ten to twenty soldiers and loot the shops (...) I watched with my own eyes as they looted the café of our German baker Herr Kiessling. Hempel's hotel was broken into as well, as almost every shop on Chung Shang and Taiping Road.</blockquote><br />On 10 February 1938, Legation Secretary of the German Embassy, Rosen, wrote to his Foreign Ministry about a film made in December by Reverend John Magee to recommend its purchase. Here is an excerpt from his letter and a description of some of its shots, kept in the Political Archives of the Foreign Ministry in Berlin.<br /><blockquote><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">During the Japanese reign of terror in Nanking – which, by the way, continues to this day to a considerable degree – the Reverend John Magee, a member of the American Episcopal Church Mission who has been here for almost a quarter of a century, took motion pictures that eloquently bear witness to the atrocities committed by the Japanese .... One will have to wait and see whether the highest officers in the Japanese army succeed, as they have indicated, in stopping the activities of their troops, which continue even today.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On December 13, about 30 soldiers came to a Chinese house at #5 Hsing Lu Koo in the southeastern part of Nanking, and demanded entrance. The door was open by the landlord, a Mohammedan named Ha. They killed him immediately with a revolver and also Mrs. Ha, who knelt before them after Ha's death, begging them not to kill anyone else. Mrs. Ha asked them why they killed her husband and they shot her. Mrs. Hsia was dragged out from under a table in the guest hall where she had tried to hide with her 1 year old baby. After being stripped and raped by one or more men, she was bayoneted in the chest, and then had a bottle thrust into her vagina. The baby was killed with a bayonet. Some soldiers then went to the next room, where Mrs. Hsia's parents, aged 76 and 74, and. The soldiers killed her with a revolver. The grandfather grasped the body of his wife and was killed. The two girls were then stripped, the elder being raped by 2–3 men, and the younger by 3. The older girl was stabbed afterwards and a cane was rammed in her vagina. The younger girl was bayoneted also but was spared the horrible treatment that had been meted out to her sister and mother. The soldiers then bayoneted another sister of between 7–8, who was also in the room. The last murders in the house were of Ha's two children, aged 4 and 2 respectively. The older was bayoneted and the younger split down through the head with a sword.</div></blockquote><br />Pregnant women were a target of murder, as they would often be bayoneted in the stomach, sometimes after rape. Tang Junshan, survivor and witness to one of the Japanese army’s systematic mass killings, testified:<br /><br /><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The seventh and last person in the first row was a pregnant woman. The soldier thought he might as well rape her before killing her, so he pulled her out of the group to a spot about ten meters away. As he was trying to rape her, the woman resisted fiercely ... The soldier abruptly stabbed her in the belly with a bayonet. She gave a final scream as her intestines spilled out. Then the soldier stabbed the fetus, with its umbilical cord clearly visible, and tossed it aside.</blockquote><br />According to Navy veteran Sho Mitani, «The Army used a trumpet sound that meant "Kill all Chinese who run away"». Thousands were led away and mass-executed in an excavation known as the "Ten-Thousand-Corpse Ditch", a trench measuring about 300m long and 5m wide. Since records were not kept, estimates regarding the number of victims buried in the ditch range from 4,000 to 20,000. However, most scholars and historians consider the number to be more than 12,000 victims.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1yyBw3nI/AAAAAAAAJrQ/mpaL5mY-tVM/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1yyBw3nI/AAAAAAAAJrQ/mpaL5mY-tVM/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-004.jpg" /></a></div>On August 6, 1937, Hirohito had personally ratified his army's proposition to remove the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners. This directive also advised staff officers to stop using the term "prisoner of war".<br /><br />Immediately after the fall of the city, Japanese troops embarked on a determined search for former soldiers, in which thousands of young men were captured. Many were taken to the Yangtze River, where they were machine-gunned. What was probably the single largest massacre of Chinese troops occurred along the banks of the Yangtze River on December 18 in what is called the Straw String Gorge Massacre. Japanese soldiers took most of the morning tying all of the POWs hands together and in the dusk divided them into 4 columns, and opened fire at them. Unable to escape, the POWs could only scream and thrash in desperation. It took an hour for the sounds of death to stop, and even longer for the Japanese to bayonet each individual. Most were dumped into the Yangtze. It is estimated that at least 57,500 Chinese POWs were killed.<br /><br />The Japanese troops gathered 1,300 Chinese soldiers and civilians at Taiping Gate and killed them. The victims were blown up with landmines, then doused with petrol before being set on fire. Those that were left alive afterward were killed with bayonets.<br /><br />F. Tillman Durdin and Archibald Steele, American news correspondents, reported that they had seen bodies of killed Chinese soldiers forming mounds six feet high at the Nanking Yijiang gate in the north. Durdin, who was working for the New York Times, made a tour of Nanking before his departure from the city. He heard waves of machine-gun fire and witnessed the Japanese soldiers gun down some two hundred Chinese within ten minutes. Two days later, in his report to the New York Times, he stated that the alleys and street were filled with civilian bodies, including women and children.<br /><br />According to a testimony made by missionary Ralph L. Phillips to the U.S. State Assembly Investigating Committee, he was "forced to watch while the Japs disembowled a Chinese soldier" and "roasted his heart and liver and ate them"<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc10Agff5I/AAAAAAAAJrU/YLxB2PqPWa0/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc10Agff5I/AAAAAAAAJrU/YLxB2PqPWa0/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-005.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">HOW LONG DID THE MASSACRE LAST?</div><br />The Battle of Nanking ended on December 13, when the divisions of the Japanese Army entered the walled city of Nanking. The Tokyo War Crime Tribunal defined the period of the massacre to the ensuing six weeks. More conservative estimates say the massacre started on December 14, when the troops entered the Safety Zone, and that it lasted for six weeks.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc12Tw_GUI/AAAAAAAAJrY/huPoUumB_hA/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc12Tw_GUI/AAAAAAAAJrY/huPoUumB_hA/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-006.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The roots of the agressive China of today perhaps lies partly in the Nanking Massacre in 1937.</i></span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc13VZbdZI/AAAAAAAAJrc/oQfcF6NLQ1o/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc13VZbdZI/AAAAAAAAJrc/oQfcF6NLQ1o/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-007.jpg" /></a></div><br />VODEO: BLACK SUN MASSACRE<br /><br /><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6D8s8iowvUo?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1507jx1I/AAAAAAAAJrg/9U658M82RIM/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc1507jx1I/AAAAAAAAJrg/9U658M82RIM/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-008.jpg" /></a></div><b><u>VIDEO;Nanking Massacre-Japanese Atrocities filmed by John Magee </u></b><br /><br /><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="374" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YeIxDezImGM?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="459"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc17O4cyPI/AAAAAAAAJrk/__Sw6Z0dUZA/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc17O4cyPI/AAAAAAAAJrk/__Sw6Z0dUZA/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-009.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc18s5f-rI/AAAAAAAAJro/K1ftvCKhhpE/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc18s5f-rI/AAAAAAAAJro/K1ftvCKhhpE/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-010.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chinese being buried alive</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2BqM3BnI/AAAAAAAAJrs/akiKCZqHBEs/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2BqM3BnI/AAAAAAAAJrs/akiKCZqHBEs/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-012.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2CeMbJMI/AAAAAAAAJrw/E6AHX7bvNdQ/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2CeMbJMI/AAAAAAAAJrw/E6AHX7bvNdQ/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-013.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2DBoLhFI/AAAAAAAAJr0/x1AMDmwY3p0/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2DBoLhFI/AAAAAAAAJr0/x1AMDmwY3p0/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-014.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2Dq_QmSI/AAAAAAAAJr4/GXUcYaDMg50/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2Dq_QmSI/AAAAAAAAJr4/GXUcYaDMg50/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-015.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>A Chinese POW about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a shin gunto during the Nanking Massacre.</b></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc8bSTtJFI/AAAAAAAAJsA/XvOkmJedqT8/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc8bSTtJFI/AAAAAAAAJsA/XvOkmJedqT8/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-016.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>One of articles on the "Contest to kill 100 people using a sword" published in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun. The headline reads, "'Incredible Record' (in the Contest to Cut Down 100 People) —Mukai 106 – 105 Noda—Both 2nd Lieutenants Go Into Extra Innings"</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2ElZPnZI/AAAAAAAAJr8/z6f_E5FC9Bk/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPc2ElZPnZI/AAAAAAAAJr8/z6f_E5FC9Bk/s1600/rape-of-nanking-nanjing-ww2-brutal-japanese-017.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>The sheer volume of murdered civilians posed a formidable logistical challenge when it came to disposing of the bodies. Many Chinese were conscripted into "burial teams</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPdGSWinn1I/AAAAAAAAJsI/pBB28x6uLzo/s1600/rape-massacre-nanjing-nanking-1937-brutal-japanese-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPdGSWinn1I/AAAAAAAAJsI/pBB28x6uLzo/s1600/rape-massacre-nanjing-nanking-1937-brutal-japanese-004.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPdGTjhRMfI/AAAAAAAAJsM/tWokS5SDTTw/s1600/rape-massacre-nanjing-nanking-1937-brutal-japanese-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TPdGTjhRMfI/AAAAAAAAJsM/tWokS5SDTTw/s1600/rape-massacre-nanjing-nanking-1937-brutal-japanese-005.jpg" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">VIDEO: RAPE OF NANKING</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YoW2WYdOsvg?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="450"></iframe></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Please note that there are many more images available on the rape and massacre that occurred at Nanking. 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