Today in WW2 History, 10 May 1945: [Photo] Soviets celebrating in Berlin #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=22441
Plugin the wings for a test, the lower side of the plane will be black.
(2/2) Despite the risks, Alfreda Markowska became involved in saving Jews and Roma, particularly children, from death at the hands of the Nazis. She saved 50 children from death. She survived the war and, in October 2006, she was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta for her actions. She died at age 94 on Jan 30, 2021.
May 10, 1926: On this date, Alfreda Markowska was born near Stanisławów, Second Polish Republic. She was ethnically Polska Roma. In 1941 the Germans murdered all the members of her family (65 to 85 people), including her parents and siblings. She survived but was later arrested by the SS. She escaped not only the SS, but also imprisonment in the ghettos of Lublin, Lodz, and Belze. (1/2)
Of the 85 million lives lost in #WW2, 8.5 million were #Ukrainian.
Our people fought on every front, resisted occupation, and paid an enormous price for victory.
Today, #Russia tries to erase this truth—stealing our legacy to justify a new #war.
We remember. We stand. We will not let history be rewritten.
May 1st 1941, when #Hitler's highest generals came to celebrate two years of the Moscow/Berlin alliance in which #Nazi Germany and #Stalin's Russia jointly waged war all over #Europe.
In this partnership, from 1939-1941, #Russia invaded Poland, Finland and the Baltics, also annexing parts of Romania.
These inconvenient facts are the core reason why Moscow puts so much #propaganda into convincing the world that #WW2 was from 1941-1945.
Months before WWII, British elites actively pursued a global Anglo-Nazi economic empire, even after Kristallnacht. Secret documents known as the Dirksen Papers reveal.
Buried for decades, these papers expose how Britain’s ruling class saw Hitler as a business partner until geopolitics forced their hand. the papers are damning challenge to Western WWII narratives.
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/the-anglo-nazi-global-empire-that
https://myshetland.co.uk/a-bit-of-shetland-history/
The Shetland Bus (Norwegian Bokmål: Shetlandsbussene) was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between Mainland Shetland in Scotland and German-occupied Norway from 1941 to 1945.
The world marks 80 years since Victory in Europe Day under the shadow of war.
Victory in Europe Day events this year take place under the shadow of the war in Ukraine and shifting global allegiances.
While Emmanuel Macron presides over solemn tributes in Paris, China's Xi Jinping and Brazil’s Lula da Silva travelled to Moscow for Russia’s Victory Day parade – a reminder of the deepening rifts reshaping the post-war world order.
“An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”
—The novelist George MacDonald Fraser – then a lance-corporal in the Border Regiment in the British Fourteenth Army – spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma. From his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE
Cantie in seaside simmer on the dunes,
I fling awa my dowp of cigarette
whaur bairns hae biggit castles out of sand
and watch the reik rise frae the parapet…
—Robert Garioch Sutherland (1909–1987), “During a Music Festival”
Today, 8 May, is the 80th anniversary of VE Day
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#DeclassifiedUK | UK leaders have betrayed those who fought in WW2
"Once the Nazis were defeated, the postwar world established a key principle. At the Nuremberg trials in 1945/46, the German leaders who were executed were convicted primarily of waging aggressive war. As the International Military Tribunal noted, aggression “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime.”
Since 1945, British leaders have dispensed with the notion that invasions constitute such a crime.
The UK has itself deployed its military forces for combat over 80 times in 47 countries since the end of WW2. These episodes include outright invasions – notably Egypt (1956), Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003) – and interventions to remove governments that were tantamount to invasions – such as British Guiana and Iran (both in 1953), Indonesia (1957), Libya and Syria (2011)."
Am 80. #Jahrestag des #Kriegsendes in Europa erinnern wir an einen Vortrag, der zum 50. Jahrestag gehalten wurde & der sich mit dem deutschen Umgang mit dem 8.5.1945, aber auch mit der 1995 „jüngsten Auseinandersetzung um das richtige Erinnern“ des Datums befasst:
Bernd Weisbrod, Der 8. Mai in der deutschen #Erinnerung, #WerkstattGeschichte 13/1996, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/konzentrationslager-und-erinnerung/
One of the most-interesting stories from #WW2 is how the world's most-powerful and technically-advanced battleship was rendered unnavigable through an attack by fabric-covered biplanes.
The biplanes flew so slowly and jigged around so much that the German gunners didn't even know how to track them.
The life lesson here (outside of war) is that more powerful doesn't always mean more successful. Apparent weakness can be a strength of its own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck#Chase
