Images of war
Following the massacre of more than 33,000 Jews by the Nazi Einsatzgruppe death squad, Soviet prisoners of war cover victims’ bodies with earth from the banks of a ravine at Babi Yar in Kyiv on 1 October 1941.
Photograph: Johannes Hähle/The Centre for Spatial Technologies & Forensic Architecture
Peoples of the internets: anyone know if a WWII-era “short snorter” roll that includes Charles Lindbergh’s signature is of interest to museums or collectors?
This is from my grandfather, who was a navigator for the Marines in WWII.
from the research files:
#WWII #Polish soldiers celebrate #Passover in Glasgow, #Scotland, 1943
contemporaneous news report:
https://www.jta.org/archive/jewsh-soldiers-in-polish-army-mark-passover-at-services-in-scotland
#WWII On April 12, 1945, CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murrow walked through the gates of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was unprepared for the horrors that waited inside the camp, just a day after it was liberated by U.S. forces. It took the veteran war correspondent three days to find the words to describe what he had seen and experienced. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/buchenwald-camp-liberation-wwii-edward-r-murrow-80-years-later/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8a&linkId=796049781
"Eighty years after the end of World War II, time is running out for the criminal prosecution of aging Nazi perpetrators"
https://p.dw.com/p/4t3q7
Militär Experten Carlo Masala und Sönke Neitzel geben auf der einen Seite zu, die #Ukraine hätte eigentlich längst verlieren müssen. Wenn Füße am Boden entscheidend wären, dann wäre die Ukraine längst überrannt. Ist die Ukraine aber nicht.
Bevor die Russen im #WWII in #Berlin einziehen konnten, war DE im Mehrfrontenkrieg mit Personal- + Materialunterlegenheit + Deutschland brannte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptNiEHpyzcE
Die Militärexperten kamen wie Blödköppe rüber.
Because the anniversary of the Düsseldorf #book burning comes on the eve of #Passover, I'll share the cover of this volume, produced for the first Passover celebration of #Holocaust survivors after the liberation, 1946. See alt text for explanation
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![book cover
PESSACH BUCH [PASSOVER BOOK]
5706
1946
image: burning books and scrolls, orange famle rising up
on a scroll with roller, spreading across the oage:
"Das Pergament verbrannte, aber die heilige Schrift schwang sich aufwärts"
[the parchment burned, but the Holy Scripture flew pward {to heaave}]
bottom in simulated script:
Zum ersten Freiheits- und Frühlingsfest der Überrreste Israels in Europa
[On the occasion of the first festival of freedom and spring of the remnants of Israel in Europe]](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/114/322/709/132/405/158/original/911cd16d2548203c.jpeg "book cover
PESSACH BUCH [PASSOVER BOOK]
5706
1946
image: burning books and scrolls, orange famle rising up
on a scroll with roller, spreading across the oage:
\"Das Pergament verbrannte, aber die heilige Schrift schwang sich aufwärts\"
[the parchment burned, but the Holy Scripture flew pward {to heaave}]
bottom in simulated script:
Zum ersten Freiheits- und Frühlingsfest der Überrreste Israels in Europa
[On the occasion of the first festival of freedom and spring of the remnants of Israel in Europe]")
100-year-old WWII veteran who hoped for 100 cards for his birthday receives 1,700+
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/wwii-veteran-birthday-cards-100th-birthday-1.7508114
'It's our duty today to say thank you,' says woman who sent birthday card from France
#MerchantMarine #CanadianNavy #WWII #BattleOfTheAtlantic #WeRemember #service #veterans #seniors 
A US Navy captain ordered a military funeral for a kamikaze pilot during WWII. Here's why
yahoo.com/news/us-navy-captain…
A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but none of the battleship's crew members were badly hurt. The Missouri's captain ordered a military burial at sea with full honors, marking one of the more unusual and little-known episodes of World War II. The pilot received the same funeral that the ship would have given one of its own sailors.
The Battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd, July 1942 to February 1943) was an attempt by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) to control the USSR's access to the Caucasus oil fields. #History #RedArmy #SecondWorldWar #SixthArmy #Stalingrad #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2696-en/
Remembering when the Commander of the Missouri battleship ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot that attacked his ship the day earlier.
#empathy #honour #war #wwii #japan #usa
https://apnews.com/article/uss-missouri-kamikaze-attack-sea-burial-wwii-07d2478ad1afcc5189a5249a3e3cd8c3?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles is struggling with subsidy cuts by the Elon Musk-led "Department of Government Efficiency," also known as DOGE. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/10/japan/museum-subsidy-cut/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #losangeles #us #donaldtrump #usjapanrelations #libraries #museums #wwii
>> Every once in a while I see #MarshallLaw trending on MAGA social media like Xitter. Does anyone know who that Marshall Law dude is?
He's the dude that came up with the reconstruction plan for #Europe after #WWII.
#Truman signed #MarshallPlan in 1948.
[sarcasm] Marshall Law is named after Truman's SecState George Marshall. It states that Europe owes #Trump $350 billion for the aid #US provided them to rebuild after #Hitler ravaged the continent.
Documents don't show #CIA confirmed #Hitler left Germany for South America after #WWII
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/germany-argentina-declassified-documents-hitler/
タミヤの1/35 ミリタリーミニチュアシリーズに「1/35 フランス軽戦車 H39」が登場!!ドイツ侵攻を迎え撃った軽戦車「H39」を実車取材に基づきリアルにプラモデル化！
https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/2558295/
Why Stupidity Is More Dangerous Than Evil via Lifehacker [Shared]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer knew more than you or I are likely to ever know about about the line between stupidity and outright evil. The Lutheran pastor and theologian had a front row seat as he watched the Nazis—history’s evilest stupid people (or stupidest evil people)—ascend to power and come to rule through terror during the 1930s and ‘40s.
In a letter to his friends, family, and followers written while he awaited execution at Flossenbürg concentration camp for his role in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler, Bonhoeffer detailed his thoughts on the root cause of the moral and intellectual infection that resulted in the Third Reich. His conclusion: It’s the stupidity, stupid.
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