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An Arrow-3 Interceptor missile during a flight test on July 19, 2019 (Image source: DVIDS)

The Long Arm of Retribution: 101-Year-Old Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

A court in Germany has found a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard guilty of participating in the murder of thousands during World War II, sentencing him to five years behind bars.

News Jul 01

Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune. (Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Chiune Sugihara: Japan’s Schindler and Remarkable Diplomat of WWII

Chiune Sugihara decided that he would stand and help the Jews during WWII. His main weapon? Travel visas.

History Apr 11

Danger Signage. (Photo by Edwin Hooper on Unsplash)

Syndrome K: The Cough That Saved Jews in WWII

It was in desperate times that some people rise up to help others, regardless of how risky it is. That was what Dr. Vittorio Sacerdoti, Professor Giovanni Borromeo, and Dr. Adriano Ossicini did— convincing the Nazis about a highly-contagious disease called Syndrome K.

History Apr 02

Nicholas Winton, the unsung Holocaust hero pictured with a Jewish Child in 1938 (Wikimedia Commons).

The British Holocaust Hero You’ve Never Heard Of

In observation of the recent International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we bring to you an unsung Holocaust hero that history books often leave out. This is a story of a British banker who took a two-week holiday to Prague in 1938 in what was then Czechoslovakia and left with over 669 Jewish children, saving them from […]

Europe Jan 28

Dutch Jews in prison uniforms imprisoned in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp (Wikimedia Commons)

Remembering The Millions of Victims of The Holocaust

We commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an occasion that memorializes the 6 million Jewish lives lost in WWII.

History Jan 27

August 1944, Anne Frank and her family are betrayed and arrested

During World War II, the Nazis tried to systematically eliminate the Jews from Europe with their “Final Solution.” Anne Frank’s family that had been hiding in Amsterdam from the Gestapo for more than two years was betrayed and arrested. Anne Frank and seven other Jews were sent to the Nazi death camps. Seven of them […]

Military History Aug 05

From the Holocaust to America’s Special Forces

For most people, surviving the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe would be the defining moment of their lives. Men like Major General Sidney Shachnow aren’t most people. The Lithuanian-born Shachnow survived a forced labor camp and went on to join the U.S. Army, serve in Vietnam, and lead the Army Special Forces’ ultra-secret World War III […]

Military History Jun 28

Weekend News Roundup: Girl locks boyfriend in suitcase, Scumbags rob holocaust survivor, More bottom-roamers and their CV-19 PPE

Girl locks boyfriend in suitcase for four hours This is terrible, I’ll throw that out there right now. It’s interesting to me because at face value I didn’t want to deride the story really, but then after reading it through, I became somewhat intoxicated by the raw, categorical, unadulterated, uncircumcised stupidity of some of our […]

Entertainment Apr 26

Photo of Auschwitz Gate (Works Makes You Free); U.S. Holocaust Museum

Auschwitz Liberation 75 Years Ago: “Never Again?” Think Again

Ceremonies in both Poland and Jerusalem marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the death camp run by the Nazis that was synonymous with the Holocaust. Over a million people were murdered there between 1940 and 1945, the vast majority of them Jews. Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Russian […]

History Jan 27

On this day in 1944, 800 Gypsy children are gassed at Auschwitz

During the Holocaust, it wasn’t just the Jews who suffered at the hands at the Nazis although they bore the brunt of the racism and extermination at the hands of the Germans and their allies during World War II. The Gypsies were also persecuted during the reign of Hitler and his henchmen. The Nazis at […]

History Oct 11

On This Date in 1962, Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann Hanged in Israel

Adolf Eichmann was a member of the Nazi Party, the SS, and the SD during Hitler’s reign of terror during the 1930s and 1940s. He was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved […]

Admin May 31

The World’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, “Never Again”

On April 12, the world remembers the millions who died in the Holocaust during World War II at the hands of the Nazis and their sympathizers. In the state of Israel, it is known as Yom HaShoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, where it is observed as Israel’s day of commemoration for the […]

Admin Apr 13

Poland President signs Holocaust speech bill, strongly criticized by the US and Israel

Warsaw, Poland — Poland’s President, Andrzej Duda, has signed a bill outlawing speech that blames Poland for Nazi Germany’s war crimes against the Polish in WWII. Though Duda has already signed it, it still has to pass Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal before it can take effect. The law permits authorities to imprison anyone for up to three […]

Foreign Policy Feb 08

On this day in history: The ‘Angel of Death’ dies swimming in Brazil

He was not punished for his war crimes, he was not hung or condemned to the electric chair. He lived in hiding and on February 7, 1979 he drowned in a swimming accident off the coast of Brazil. He was 67 years old. Josef Mengele earned his title, “The Angel of Death.” He fully embraced […]

Military History Feb 07

Germany: 96-year-old Auschwitz guard goes to jail

Germany, Berlin—A 96-year-old former Auschwitz administrator will spend the next four years in jail for his role in the mass killings conducted at the concentration camp during WWII. Oskar Groening, AKA Auschwitz’s bookkeeper, had been responsible for collecting and counting the cash that was stripped from the death-factory’s unfortunate victims. He had received his sentence […]

Military History Dec 31

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Historic Deal: Germany, Israel Ink $3.5B Missile Shield Pact

Nazi Germany’s Bloodiest Years: Unmasking the Cruelty of Hitler’s Regime

Armin Wegner: The German Officer Who Fought Against Genocides

Dwight D. Eisenhower In Preserving Dark Truths About The Holocaust

Oskar Schindler: The German Whose Mission Was to Save the Jews

The Long Arm of Retribution: 101-Year-Old Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

Chiune Sugihara: Japan’s Schindler and Remarkable Diplomat of WWII

Syndrome K: The Cough That Saved Jews in WWII

The British Holocaust Hero You’ve Never Heard Of

Remembering The Millions of Victims of The Holocaust

August 1944, Anne Frank and her family are betrayed and arrested

From the Holocaust to America’s Special Forces

Weekend News Roundup: Girl locks boyfriend in suitcase, Scumbags rob holocaust survivor, More bottom-roamers and their CV-19 PPE

Auschwitz Liberation 75 Years Ago: “Never Again?” Think Again

On this day in 1944, 800 Gypsy children are gassed at Auschwitz

On This Date in 1962, Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann Hanged in Israel

The World’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, “Never Again”

Poland President signs Holocaust speech bill, strongly criticized by the US and Israel

On this day in history: The ‘Angel of Death’ dies swimming in Brazil

Germany: 96-year-old Auschwitz guard goes to jail

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Historic Deal: Germany, Israel Ink $3.5B Missile Shield Pact

Nazi Germany’s Bloodiest Years: Unmasking the Cruelty of Hitler’s Regime

Armin Wegner: The German Officer Who Fought Against Genocides

Dwight D. Eisenhower In Preserving Dark Truths About The Holocaust

Oskar Schindler: The German Whose Mission Was to Save the Jews

The Long Arm of Retribution: 101-Year-Old Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

Chiune Sugihara: Japan’s Schindler and Remarkable Diplomat of WWII

Syndrome K: The Cough That Saved Jews in WWII

The British Holocaust Hero You’ve Never Heard Of

Remembering The Millions of Victims of The Holocaust

August 1944, Anne Frank and her family are betrayed and arrested

From the Holocaust to America’s Special Forces

Weekend News Roundup: Girl locks boyfriend in suitcase, Scumbags rob holocaust survivor, More bottom-roamers and their CV-19 PPE

Auschwitz Liberation 75 Years Ago: “Never Again?” Think Again

On this day in 1944, 800 Gypsy children are gassed at Auschwitz

On This Date in 1962, Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann Hanged in Israel

The World’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, “Never Again”

Poland President signs Holocaust speech bill, strongly criticized by the US and Israel

On this day in history: The ‘Angel of Death’ dies swimming in Brazil

Germany: 96-year-old Auschwitz guard goes to jail

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