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June122013
June 12th 1942: Anne Frank receives her diary
On this day in 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday. She had seen the book, bound with red and white checkered cloth, a few days before and her father gave it to her for her birthday. Frank, a Jewish German national, lived in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her family went into hiding in 1942 to escape the persecution of the Jewish population, and Frank documented her experiences. Her group was eventually betrayed after two years in hiding and Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from typhus in March 1945. Her father survived, and upon his return to Amsterdam found his daughter’s diary, which documented her life from 14th June 1942 to 1st August 1944, and had it translated and published.Anne Frank would have turned 84 today
June52013
“As we helped each other aboard the trucks, it never occurred to us why so many were being assigned to infantry. We were destined to take the places of the ever mounting numbers of casualties in the rifle or line companies in the Pacific. We were fated to fight the war first hand. We were cannon fodder.”
Eugene Sledge, on the infantry in World War II. Infantry were only 14% of the troops overseas. But they bore the brunt of the fighting wherever they went, suffering extraordinarily high casualty rates at about seven of every ten men. (via historical-nonfiction)
(Source: pbs.org, via historical-nonfiction)
May112013
Interesting Things Rationed During WWII
What it says on the tin, folks:
- corduroy
- bicycles
- cheese
- typewriters
- silk
- rubber footwear
- baby food
- coffee
(Source: ameshistoricalsociety.org)
May82013
The name Adolf was actually quite popular, as well as common, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a compound derivation from the Old High German word “adal” or “athal,” meaning “noble” or “high,” and the word “wulf” meaning “wolf.” So Adolf essentially translates to “Noble Wolf,” a strong, upstanding sort of name. However, being associated with Hitler has, seemingly forever, demonized the meaning of Adolf. Since World War II, almost no babies have been given this once popular name.
April182013
So this guy is Captain America in real life. When war broke out after Pearl Harbor in 1942, Audie Murphy saw the armed forces as a way to help support his family and serve his country. He tried to enlist, but was still to young for the service. As soon as he turned 18 he went to the Marine Corps recruiter begging to join up. The Marines took one look at little Audie - he was five feet five inches tall and one hundred ten pounds - and determined that he was too small for the service. The Navy guys told him the same thing. The Army had no qualms about throwing Murphy into the meat grinder however, and shipped him off to North Africa as part of the US 3rd Infantry Division.
He played around in the desert in North Africa, then helped invade Sicily, then got medals for bravery on D-Day and in the subsequent liberation of France. His actions also got him promoted to Second Lieutenant. While fighting in the Holzwihr forest in January 1945, he was told to defend a critical pocket from the Germans with 19 men, all that was left of his 128-man company. Against two Nazi companies and six tiger tanks. And he did it, because he is Captain America. When Audie returned home, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
He served some time in the Texas National Guard, retiring at the rank of Major. After his military service, Audie Murphy went on to be a badass movie action hero, starring in a number of Westerns and even playing himself in the autobiographical To Hell and Back. He was eventually given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
April132013
The immediate reaction of German POWs upon being forced by the US Army to watch to the uncensored footage of the concentration camps shot by the US Signal Corps.
People often forget that most of the German troops had no idea about what was going on, they weren’t all fanatic Nazis bent on genocide, they were just regular soldiers who answered the call when their country went to war.
There’s a great movie about this idea is called, “As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me”. It’s in German, but it is an amazing movie.
Go and watch it now. I’ll wait.
(via hoop-skirts-and-corsets)
April92013
My Zedies Numbers #Holocaust #NeverAgain #YomHashoah
holocaust rememberance day
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