If they do not cover exactly the questions you ponder, then probably the only solution is to track down one of the survivors and ask his opinion. The POW camp in my town had many Russian soldiers. And they were treated very badly. I think if any of them were released home, their lead...
So for Erich Holm, the entire Holocaust should just be something the Jews should get over and move on, notwithstanding the fact it’s still in living memory of many Nazi Holocaust survivors in 1987, including many in South Africa Holm bitterly recalled that the imprisonment of Hess was because...
Glen never married and had no children and left his farm to his niece and nephew who later sold it. As far as I know they are still alive but know nothing about their whereabouts. All of the structures on both farms that were in place at that time are now gone.“ That Glen Just wa...
Soviet Union (1920) Light Tank – 15 Built On March 19, 1919, the young Soviet state acquired its first FT tanks. This acquisition followed the victory of General Grigoriyev Nikifor’s 2nd Ukrainian Soviet Army over the Interventionist White Forces in a battle near the German colony of Worms...
Mannix refused to let Gable go on the rescue party climbing the mountain—convincing him Carole, Otto, and Bettie might have survived and were now walking to the city. So the star stayed behind and drank. The next morning, he received a cable from Mannix. “NO SURVIVORS. ALL KILLED INSTAN...
The light cruiser Birmingham (CL-62) came alongside to take off survivors when a huge secondary explosion swept the would-be rescuer, inflicting nearly seven hundred casualties. Princeton was scuttled after an eight-hour ordeal, losing 108 men. She was the first American fast carrier sunk since...
all eleven survivors had made it to the island after having spent a total of fifteen hours in the water. Kennedy had given McMahon a life-jacket and had towed him all three miles with the strap of the device in his teeth. After finding no food or water on the island, Kennedy concluded...
That is the question which the survivors of the twice desolated regiments are asking. And the enemy's superiority as meanwhile not become smaller, but bigger. After hard fighting and bitter disappointments the last soldier of the 716th Infantry Division must realize today: They comes a time ...
The third ship to be lost was the HMSAS Parktown’s sister ship, the HMSAS Bever which went down later in the war during the liberation of Greece when it struck a mine, and carries with its story a tale of miraculous survivors (see this link for a full story – click here“Under ...
had been worked to death,the survivors and ghetto leaders themselves were transported to extermination camps and the ghetto destroyed.Similar the Ukrainians,as Slavs, regarded as the untermenchen were enticed into Third Reich service with a promise of independence when the Russians had been defeated...