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  • The shout of 'Heil Hitler' became a catchword which rang insolently over all [Arab] Palestine (1938 book)

    09/25/2022 2:55:00 AM PDT · by Conservat1 · 8 replies
    Ziff, William Bernard. The Rape of Palestine. 1938. p.403 Like many other informed men, Duff gave blunt warning that "as soon as the Palestinian leaders understood that Great Britain had really left them to their own devices ... a general massacre of the Jews and the destruction of their colonies would occur." It need occasion no surprise that the words 'Heil Hitler' proved a magic pass- word during the recent rebellion, protecting Europeans against attack.p. 413: All over Palestine groups of brown-clad storm troops were marching, shouting 'Heil Hitler.' At Nablus, boldly operating in the open, was a military training...
  • From Marianne magazine 1938 & 1940 on Hitler

    09/22/2022 5:03:34 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 5 replies
    Various ^ | 1938+
    Description Cover of “” The Laughter””, Satirical in Colours, 1938_4_1: The Great Game - - Marianne, Hitler, Hairy - Illustration by CanivetlinkDeath as Hitler's last allylink Sein letzter Verbündeter / Hitlerkarikatur Hitler, Adolf; Politiker (NSDAP), 1889–1945. “Son dernière alliée” (Der Tod als der letzte Verbündete Hitlers). Fotomontage von Marinus Jacob Kjeldgaard (1884–1964) (Zuschreibung) (veröffentlicht in der frz. Wochenzeitung “Marianne”, Paris, 21.2.1940).
  • AP 28 Nov 1936: 'Arabs Read Hitler' - Mein Kampf bestseller among Arabs in Palestine

    09/18/2022 10:43:07 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 13 replies
    AP ^ | November 28, 1936
    Arabs Read Hitler "My Struggle" Becomes Best Seller Among Anti-Semitics. BERLIN. November 26 (AP). -- Arabs, who join with Nazi Germany in antagonism to Jews, are reading Adolf Hitler's book "My Struggle." The Fuehrer's autobiography, with its anti-Semitic theroies, has been translated into Arabic and already is a best seller in Palestine, German newspapers say. The German edition once was barred in Palestine during the high point of Jewish immigration there, but Arabs who fought the Jewish influx, are reported much interested in the new translation.Nebraska State Journal Archives, Nov 26, 1936, p. 2 - NewspaperArchive
  • Record-Breaking WWII Fighter Pilot Dean Laird Dies At Age 101, According To Family

    08/31/2022 12:06:49 PM PDT · by Twotone · 20 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | August 30, 2022 | Alyssa Blakemore
    The only known World War II Navy pilot to shoot down both German and Japanese enemy aircraft died Aug. 10, according to the veteran’s family. Retired Navy Commander Dean “Diz” Laird died in Walnut Creek, California, with family by his side just weeks after embarking on his final flight, CNN reported. The 101-year-old former pilot was joined on a Dream Flights flight by another fighter pilot, Clarence “Bud” Anderson. --snip-- Laird’s storied career as a Navy aviator includes 5.75 confirmed planes shot down, according to his obituary on legacy.com. He was also the only Navy ace to down both German...
  • Once thought to be unmovable, the Battleship Texas heads to Galveston for repairs

    08/31/2022 6:07:17 AM PDT · by CodeToad · 65 replies
    KUT, Austin, Texas ^ | 8/30/2022 | Michael Marks
    While in service, the USS Texas sailed through some of the globe’s most treacherous waters. The Texas is one of only eight ships to serve in both world wars. Its crew supported American troops on D-Day and on Iwo Jima. After being decommissioned, the Texas became a floating museum, docked beside the old San Jacinto Battleground near Houston. On Wednesday, the Texas will once again set out into open waters when a group of tugboats tows it to a dry dock in Galveston, where the ship will undergo extensive repairs on its hull as part of a long-term plan to...
  • 1945 and Sport - Can We Restore the Shared Ground Nations Need to Survive

    08/28/2022 9:42:15 PM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 4 replies
    https://tujuhbelasan.com/ ^ | 29th August, 2022 | Ozguy1945
    In most fields of endeavor, modern life in The West is poisoned by bullying and fear. Sometimes sporting people can still rise above that.
  • Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans in 1945 When utopias fail.

    08/27/2022 6:53:14 AM PDT · by rktman · 64 replies
    frontpagemag.com ^ | 8/26/2022 | Danusha V. Goska
    Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself is one of the best books about Nazi Germany I've read. The author is 55-year-old Nuremberg native Florian Huber, who wrote his PhD on British policy regarding the postwar occupation of Germany. The book was first published in Germany in 2015. It became a bestseller. Penguin published an English translation in 2019. Huber's writing is as crisp and gripping as prize-winning fiction. His style is a bit like Hemingway's. The main text of the book is 267 pages, followed by 20 pages of notes. Promise Me is a quick read that covers an astounding amount...
  • Hitler youth WW2 documentary

    08/24/2022 7:26:03 AM PDT · by Morgana · 26 replies
    In respect of Maurice De Wilde ^ | July 2022 | In respect of Maurice De Wilde
    Hitler youth WW2 documentary Video is over 2 hours long. May want to book mark for later.
  • ‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on

    08/23/2022 4:50:09 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 65 replies
    The Second World War’s deadliest battle – and one of the most brutal of all time – started on August 23, 1942, when Adolf Hitler’s forces went all out to seize the city bearing Joseph Stalin’s name. If ever a battle was like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object, it was Stalingrad. But when the USSR finally prevailed amid inhuman circumstances, it unleashed their inexorable momentum towards the moment three years later when troops raised the Soviet flag over the Reichstag as a devastated Berlin smouldered. The most vivid chronicler of Stalingrad was the Soviet novelist and journalist Vasily...
  • How cold did it get in WW2 bombers? WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES:

    08/23/2022 5:54:19 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 50 replies
    Quora.com ^ | Aug 12,2022 | Profile photo for Pete Feigal Pete Feigal · Follow Former Pro Military Artist for 25 Years
    See this waist gunner in a B-17, flying at 28,000 feet? It’s -42 degrees below zero heading for -60 below and his fingers will start to freeze in one minute if unprotected! And if his M2 .50 jams, or needs to have a new ammo belt, to continue to protect his segment of the bomber’s defensive “box”, he WILL have to take off those gloves, and he WILL lose the tips of his fingers, guaranteed. And if this young man, aprox. 20 years old, ever gets back home to Yourtown, USA…he won't have the tips of his fingers and all...
  • The Nazi Roots of Islamist Hate (broad research by famed historian)

    08/21/2022 8:07:37 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 20 replies
    Tablet ^ | Jul 6, 2022 | Jeffrey Herf
    The Nazi Roots of Islamist Hate A review of recent scholarship on the shaping of the modern Middle East in the aftermath of the Holocaust BY JEFFREY HERF JULY 06, 2022 TABLET MAGAZINE In early June 1946, Haj Amin el-Husseini, also known as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, escaped from a year of pleasant house arrest in France and flew to Cairo. Husseini, by then often referred to in Egypt simply as “the Mufti,” was internationally renowned as a collaborator with Nazi Germany as a result of his meeting with Adolf Hitler in Berlin in November 1941, and his Arabic...
  • Graffiti with a swastika in the Old City of Jerusalem 1936 (done by Arabs, apparently)

    08/20/2022 9:39:38 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 22 replies
    jfc.org.il ^ | (Original in Jan 1, 1936) publicized in 2022
    Graffiti with a swastika in the Old City of Jerusalem 1936 The Old City of Jerusalem, a view of the Dormition Abbey, Jaffa Gate, Zion Gate, Guest embryos Looking at the Graffiti of a swastika and the inscription Hitler in English on a stone wall. Old City alleys, Policemen patrol the place. (From the Sherman Greenberg film collection) [Jan 1, 1936]https://jfc.org.il/news_journal/112166-2/114002-2/[Note:Hitler spelled Hiteler and the swastika spray painted at Zion gate. Beneath, the Star of David is deleted. Hence, done by Arabs]
  • Low water levels on Danube reveal sunken WW2 German warships

    08/19/2022 11:40:34 PM PDT · by texas booster · 25 replies
    Times of India ^ | Aug 19 2022 | staff
    Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War Two near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo.
  • The Dieppe Raid: ‘Canada’s single bloodiest day’ of World War II, 80 years on The Dieppe Raid: ‘Canada’s single bloodiest day’ of World War II, 80 years on

    08/19/2022 5:42:26 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 31 replies
    Canada is one of many overlooked Allied countries that helped turn the tide of World War II from the autumn of 1942 onwards. Although the Canadian-led Dieppe Raid of that year ultimately failed, the Allies reaped important lessons that later helped to ensure the success of the Normandy D-Day landings. FRANCE 24 looks back at the Dieppe Raid, 80 years later. On August 19, 1942, the Dieppe Raid or Operation Jubilee, as it was codenamed, was launched as Stalin believed that the Western allies were not carrying their fair share of the burden of the war and so demanded that...
  • Behind racist Abu Mazen's belitting (again) the Holocauat Aug 2022

    08/17/2022 5:33:25 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 4 replies
    DP ^ | Aug 17, 2022
    1. The sweeping under the carpet of: a. His own involvement in the 1972 Munich massacre. b. And the Neo-Nazi Palestinian corporation at the 1972 crime. 2. Belitting the Holocaust, part of Abu Mazen's own long history of Holocaust denial since the 1980s, at least. 3. Attempts to rewrite history of: a. The Arab massacre of Jews in 1920, 1921, 1929, 1938, 1947; the massacres by Fedayeen in the 1950s (which Adolf Eichmann assisted in weapons supplies). b. Arab Palestinians, pro-Hitler as German official reported in 1937; in that year 'All' of Palestine celebrated Muhamnad's birthday with flying Nazi swastika...
  • History Lesson: 5 Best Guns Of World War II

    08/16/2022 7:30:40 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 39 replies
    1945 ^ | August 16, 2022 | Peter Suciu
    5 Best Guns of World War II: Literally tens of millions of firearms were produced during the Second World War. Some of the designs performed better than others, while a mere few stood out as masterpieces. Of those, five truly were the best of the best
  • August 1945: ‘An Eventful Month in World History’

    08/15/2022 7:06:07 PM PDT · by Conservat1
    American Thinker ^ | Aug 12, 2022 | Barrett Tillman
    In a 1945 summary, a U.S. Army Air Forces unit on Okinawa described August as “an eventful month in world history.” That understatement holds up 77 years later. Events had accelerated in the spring and summer of 1945. Germany surrendered on May 8 but Russia already was shipping massive amounts of men and materiel eastward. Moscow and Tokyo had a non-aggression treaty that Soviet premier Joseph Stalin cancelled on August 9. That night a massive Russian assault into Japanese-held Manchuria opened the Far East end game, briefly overlapping impending Japan’s surrender to the Allies. American forces began deploying from Europe...
  • The Destruction of Fort Drum, the Famous Concrete Battleship of Manila Bay

    08/13/2022 8:22:24 PM PDT · by Antoninus · 11 replies
    Gloria Romanorum ^ | August 13, 2022 | Florentius
    The United States is credited with building a battleship that, to this day, is certified as completely unsinkable. It sported four 14-inch naval rifles in two turrets with impressive arcs of fire, along with a variety of smaller guns in casemates along the sides. Though completely unsinkable, this battleship had one major drawback — it could not move. In fact, it was fixed in place in Manila Bay in the Philippines. It was also made of concrete. The name of this battleship was not New Jersey, or Missouri, or North Carolina. It was Fort Drum. If you visit the Philippines...
  • Samuel Sandoval, among last Navajo Code Talkers, dead at 98

    08/01/2022 4:58:18 AM PDT · by DFG · 15 replies
    NY Post ^ | 08/01/2022 | Anders Hagstrom
    Samuel Sandoval, one of the last members of the Navajo Code Talkers who encrypted critical U.S. messages during World War II, has died at 98. Navajo Code Talkers famously used language based on the Navajo Nation’s native tongue to transmit messages regarding Japanese troop placements and movements during U.S. Marine assaults throughout the Pacific. The Navajo language was unwritten at the time and U.S. enemies had virtually no means of deciphering the code. Sandoval was among four remaining code talkers still alive today, from the hundreds who had been recruited during the war. The three others who are living include...
  • Explorers find WWII Navy ship, deepest wreck discovered

    07/27/2022 11:17:30 AM PDT · by DFG · 25 replies
    AP via Yahoo ^ | 06/26/2022 | AP
    Scroll back up to restore default view. Associated Press Explorers find WWII Navy ship, deepest wreck discovered June 26, 2022 In this article: Samuel B. Roberts Recipient of the Navy Cross (1921-1942) Robert W. Copeland United States admiral MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A U.S. Navy destroyer escort that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of World War II in the Philippines has become the deepest wreck to be discovered, according to explorers. The USS Samuel B. Roberts, popularly known as the “Sammy B," was identified on Wednesday broken into two pieces on a slope at a...