The CHagui’an Memorial site, on the north-central plateau of Guam, is where the largest known single act of violence on Guam occurred, just at the end of World War II. Among the thousands of CHamorus held at the Manenggon concentration camp, 45 men were taken and forced to carry sup...
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These experiments killed an estimated 10,000 prisoners, and testing of the biological weaponry on Chinese villages resulted in an additional 300,000 deaths [source: McNaught]. Experiments carried out by Nazi doctors were no less horrifying. They pushed prisoners of concentration camps up to — and...
They treat this as if it is all new, headline stuff, the shock of civilian deaths, the coverup, the whistleblower himself the new target. But we refuse in our new righteousness over the cindered bodies of women and children to acknowledge it is closer to the norm than the exception. ...
mushroom cloud rising into the sky was the visual effect of 80,000 instant civilian deaths (tens of thousands more in the following weeks from radiation exposure). Three days later a second bomber was sent with the same outcome over the city of Nagasaki, resulting in another 40,000 lives ...
Kulski was sentenced to Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp from which few would leave alive. But his rescue would change his fate. He was accepted into a commando unit of the Underground Army. At age 15, Kulski found himself fighting on the frontlines in the Warsaw Uprising of 19...
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Concentration Camps Definition: Prison or location to house people, with poor conditions such as starvation, pests, diseases, and unsafe, long, and arduous work hoursHistorical Significance: Led to many deaths of the Holocaust either due to conditions or being killed once unable to work. Went wid...
4. Trainingexplores photographs of soldiers in boot camp or more-advanced phases of instruction and exercise. World War II Royal Navy officers gather around a desk to study different types of aircraft in a photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton. Also included is the iconic Vietnam-era photograph of ...
The number of Chamorro deaths in Yigo was never accurately determined but the mutilated bodies of 51 Chamorros were found by American patrols. The beheaded bodies of 30 men were found stacked in a truck near Chaquina, and the bodies of 21 others were found in the jungle near Mount Mata...