Posted on 10/16/2025 8:17:44 AM PDT by lowbridge
A German historian has utilized the omnipresent tech to glean the identity of a notorious Nazi executioner in a World War II photograph — over 80 years after it was taken.
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In the chilling photo, taken in today’s Ukraine, a bespectacled Nazi soldier aims a pistol at a man who’s kneeling before a mass grave as other SS troops look on.
Commonly known as the “Last Jew of Vinnitsa,” the pic remained a mystery for decades until Matthäus cracked the caper with the aid of AI, historical records and personal accounts.
According to the study published in the Journal of Historical Studies, the massacre took place July 28, 1941 in the citadel of Berdychiv and not Vinnitsa as previously thought. The regiment, Einsatzgruppe C, had reportedly been charged with eradication of “Jews and partisans” in the newly occupied Soviet region ahead of a visit by Adolf Hitler.
The gunman is believed to be Jakobus Onnen, a French, English and gym teacher who was born in 1906 in Tichelwarf, Germany, and joined the Nazi party in 1931.
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It’s not clear what prompted Onnen to radicalize, but he was reportedly a dedicated Nazi. In August 1939, just before the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the SS Death’s Head Unit at Dachau concentration camp and was working for the Nazi “Order Police” in occupied Poland by 1940, the Independent reported.
He then joined the Einsatzgruppe C — with whom he’d be snapped carrying out his horrific execution — in 1941, shortly after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The unit reportedly eliminated all but 15 of the 20,000 Jews that were there upon their arrival.
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Not unless Onnen crawls out of his grave and confirms that's him in the phot.
Waiting for this guy's descendants to come forward and sue over this.
Still a lot of NAZI’s in YouCraynee.
Did he go to Haaavaad or Yale?
No, but Dan Gryder has.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3DkEmL6aWc&list=PLSFLiSP0zf-btON5DAH8OTmiyv3VRDU-R
the nazi party enjoyed quite strong support in academia
(reference today’s USA campuses too ... there’s something about the college setting that attracts or creates communist/nazi/leftist insanity....??????)
No kidding. I used a free AI program to get a picture of a ‘55 Chevy. It looked as much like a farm tractor.
One of the reasons the Nazis wanted to make Sophie and Hans Scholl an example, was because they genuinely feared that universities would become hotbeds of resistance to the regime.
A few weeks before their arrest, at the campus where she distributed the leaflets, there was a speech by a local gauleiter, saying to the women students that they should be at home making babies instead of going to school, it caused a skirmish. Even Goebbels got pissed off at the gauleiter for what he said, but it did send an alarm to the authorities that they’d better clamp down, and make an example of anyone who dares state their opposition.
Basic facts like the French Englishman born in Germany.
It was a drawn out delivery and his mom was a busy tupperware lady.
College professors who teach topics other than math, science, or engineering don’t have to deal with reality. They get paid even when they contribute nothing of value and deal only in opinion..
“ the nazi party enjoyed quite strong support in academia”
Germany was the enlightened area of Europe. Many college educated people, and it was the birthplace of the Nazi’s.
Does that mean the more educated the more gullible to fanaticism? It sure looked that way to me.
Today we have all these crazy people, and where are the majority of them located?
Cities that are educated/indoctrinated. Democrat lunacy run amuck…
Berlin was much more Communist, than Nazi.
Nazis main support came from Bavaria.
My dad is a WWII veteran. In his photographs, a friendly looking soldier appears many times. Wonder if AI might help identify him?
According to Tucker Carlson’s favorite “historian,” this was a “good guy.” According to Candace Owens, this never happened.
Interesting. Thanks
Or sit 30 hours a week on mostly- useless committees
It is indeed an interesting question
A relative recognized him.
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