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June 28, 2022 · Crime
In August 1937, in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army faced strong resistance and suffered heavy casualties at the Battle of Shanghai. The battle was very bloody, as both sides turned to hand-to-hand fighting due to exhaustion. On August 5, 1937, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito ratified an army proposal to […]
June 28, 2022 · War
Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in the German Empire and was known as the ‘Angel of Death’ or the ‘Nazi Doctor’. He was mostly known for his experiments on people in the deadly Nazi concentration camps. Mengele was also partially responsible for the victims of the gas chambers. Mengele’s Early Life As stated above, he […]
June 28, 2022 · Crime
In 1941 the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was attacked by the Germans and its alliances in World War Two. These were called “The Axis Powers”. After Adolf Hitler announced his plans to annex Yugoslavia, the government that was pro-axis was overthrown in a coup. Yugoslavia was attacked from all sides of the country and didn’t have […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Hermann Göring, also known as “Der Dicke” because of his stocky build, was a notorious Nazi leader. During the First World War, he was a celebrated fighter pilot. When the Nazis came to power, Göring became Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe. In 1939, Adolf Hitler appointed him as his successor and deputy. During the Second World […]
June 28, 2022 · Art
When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933 with Hitler as their leader, the NSDAP (Nazi Party) immediately abolished all types of art that didn’t properly fit into their image art. They called it: “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art), and this term made a lot of artists being defined it as “Not good for the […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Jacob Nacken, born Jakob Hudson Nacken, was a German circus performer who performed throughout Europe and the United States in the early twentieth century. He began his professional career as a performer in a traveling circus as a child, and he made his debut as an abnormally tall person during the 1939 New York World’s […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Did you know that Hitler was obsessed with the occult? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke published a book about this in 1985, called: The Occult Roots of Nazism. In this book, Clarke analyzed the occultism in Hitler’s ideology. The most important conclusion that he formed was that many of the stories about occultism in Nazism or a certain […]
June 28, 2022 · War
Elizabeth II, also known as the Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, is the last surviving head of state from World War II. I didn’t know about this as I stumbled on a picture of the longest-reigning monarch and started to dig into this story. In this article, I’ll tell you when, […]
June 28, 2022 · War
Adolf Hitler’s paintings are pretty good. Okay, they’re not mind-blowing, but they’re so much better than what I had expected after hearing all the stories about him being rejected from art school and starting a world war. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. He failed the entry test for the Academy of Fine […]
June 28, 2022 · Crime
Many things caused World War I, like Big Militarism, Imperialism, or the many defense alliances. But the thing that made the tension in Europe really explode was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian Black Hand. He was murdered on the 28th of June 1914 by a terrorist group called the Black Hand. […]
