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  German soldiers executing a Russian soldier and a civilian during the Operation Faustschlag, 1918. Today 106 years ago, on February 18, 1918, the last battle on the Eastern Front began with the Operation Faustschlag (Fist Punch), resulting in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Russia's exit from the First World War. By November 1917, the Bolsheviks had seized control of Russia and the Russian military was in a state of dissaray and political turmoil. The Bolsheviks and Central Powers began discussing peace negotiations in December 1917, but were unable to agree on peace terms, as the Bolsheviks believed the German terms were too harsh, and wanted to delay peace in case of a Communist revolution in Germany. The Germans wanted to move troops from the Eastern Front to the Western Front for their Spring Offensive, and thus sought to speed up the peace negotiations. Together with Austria-Hungary, they planned a large-scale offensive along the Eastern Front, called Operation Faustschlag....

  16-year-old Australian soldier Alec Campbell at Gallipoli in 1915 and later in life. . Today 22 years ago, on May 16, 2002, Alec Campbell passed away at the age of 103 - the last surviving Australian participant of the Battle of Gallipoli. . Alexander William Campbell, shortened to Alec Campbell, was born on February 26, 1899 in Tasmania, Australia. By 1915 the First World War had begun and Australian men were volunteering for service, being deployed in the Battle of Gallipoli in April 1915. . Campbell, aged only 16, left his job as a clerk at a fire insurance company to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force. He lied about being 18 years and 4 months old, and successfully enlisted in the 15th Battalion, AIF on July 2, 1915. .  Some reports claim he had the consent of his parents' while others claim he did not. His parents were nevertheless terrified of Campbell going off to war, as one of his cousins had already been killed at Gallipoli.  . Campbell embarked for Galli...

  Two Bhumihars kiIIed in the movement of “Bhura Baal Saaf Karo”. One of them is Jaynarayan Sing who was kidn@pped from his Gaushala in Muzaffarpur and h@nged publicly on 4 July 1994.  Jaynarayan Singh was abducted in front of his 12-year-old son Rajiv Ranjan. Rajiv Ranjan told us that no media ever speaks about it.  Thousands of Brahmins, Rajputs, Bhumihars and Kayastha were kiIIed in 1990s. This was the biggest Gen0cide of Independent India.  Still, these castes are facing persecution and threats. Rajiv Ranjan is now contesting the election as an independent candidate to end this Bhura Baal Saaf Kato movement.  He lost his father and family members at a very young age Thanks for reading leave your thoughts in the comments section below Read more on our Rare History Channel  

 British (Scottish) soldier inspecting fallen German machine-gunners near Méteren in Flanders, July 20, 1918. . The following is the diary entry of 21-year-old Danish-German machine-gunner I.J.I Bergholt reporting on a charge across a bridge on the Western Front in May 1918. Translated by myself:  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "We had been attacking since early morning, had advanced, withdrawn and advanced again, until we halted before a village. Our machine-guns were with us in the frontlines, so our men cleverly carried the heavy equipment. Suddenly the Infantry company with us in the frontlines was withdrawn. We were now alone and were to hold the front with the three machine-guns in our platoon. .  We had a new Feldwebel as platoon leader, one of whom had been recruited from the Landwehr. The Feldwebel was a nice fella; but it was the first attack he participated in, thus his war skills were non-existent. He was what we referred to as an aging gentleman, perhaps around the 40s. . In f...

  On this day in 1945, Pierre Laval, the puppet leader qq Nazi-occupied Vichy France, was executed by firing squad for treason against France. On this in 1945, Pierre Laval, the puppet leader of Nazi-occupied Vichy France, was executed by firing squad for treason against France. Laval, originally a deputy and senator of pacifist tendencies, shifted to the right in the 1930s while serving as minister of foreign affairs and twice as the French premier.  Seeking to contain Germany, Laval pursued foreign policies favorable to Italy and the Soviet Union, but his handling of the Abyssinia Crisis prompted his resignation as Prime Minister of France in 1936. Hostile to the declaration of war against Germany in 1939, Laval encouraged the anti-war faction in the French government, and with the German invasion in 1940 he used his political influence to force an armistice with Germany. Following the fall of France, Laval served in many prominent government positions in Henri Pétain's Vich...

German General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in the Aversa stockade. The General was convicted and sentenced to death by an American military tribunal after ordering the execution of 15 US soldiers on 26th March 1944. General Anton Dostler was a general of the infantry in the regular German Army during World War II. In the first Allied war trial after the war, Dostler was found guilty of war crimes and executed by firing squad.  He ordered and oversaw the unlawful execution of fifteen captured U.S. soldiers. The soldiers were sent behind the German lines with orders to demolish a tunnel that was being used by the German army as a supply route to the front lines.  They were captured and upon learning of their mission, Dostler ordered their execution without trial. The U.S. soldiers were wearing proper military uniforms and carried no civilian or enemy clothing and were in compliance with Hague Convention to be considered non-combatants ...

In the early days of World War II, Germany's policy towards the Soviet Union was to attack the Soviet Union at a distance, and because the Soviet authorities believed that due to the strength of the Soviet armament, Germany would never take the initiative to attack the Soviet Union. Therefore, at the beginning of the war, the Soviet Union did not actively help other countries resist German aggression. The actual result was that the German Lightning Forces quickly moved into the Soviet Union. Of course, the old men were caught off guard, and the battle was retreating steadily, and the army suffered heavy casualties. The most indispensable thing for a fighting nation is people who can fight. When a man is dead, a woman can also go to the battlefield.  Those women who were only waiting for the return of their husbands and sons took up their weapons unwillingly. Since then, 800,000 female Soviet soldiers have been on the battlefield full of artillery fire. They lived enthusiastically a...

Hundreds of Minna residents living around Fadikpe and Dutsen Kura Gwari in Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State on Monday gathered to watch a drowned baby pulled out from the river. New Telegraph gathered that the unknown mother who carried the pregnancy for nine months may have dumped the baby after delivery into the river in the wee hours. Some of the people who reacted to the ugly incident condemned the ungodly act and call on the relevant authorities to search for the mother and make her pay for her actions. According to one of the eyewitnesses who simply gave her name as Hassana, “When I got here, I saw people gathered and pointing towards the child. But we were not sure because some people thought it was a dead animal. “The dead baby was floating on the river with hundreds of flies on it. It took the courage of this man (Ibrahim) to clear our doubts. “He brought a shovel to remove it, and lo and behold, it is a newborn baby boy with his placenta still dangling”. Another...

 John Dury New of Mobile, Alabama, a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on September 25, 1944,  on Peleliu Island, Palau Islands. New enlisted in the Marine Corps on December 8, 1941, the first Mobile, AL man to enlist after Pearl Harbor. On December 12, he joined the 4th Recruit Battalion at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, and following recruit training served at Quantico, Virginia. In September 1942, Pvt New joined the 4th Replacement Battalion, Fleet Marine Force, Training Center, in San Diego, California. He sailed for duty overseas the following month and participated in the Guadalcanal campaign as a member of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division.  He shared in the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to the Division on Guadalcanal. He later took part in the seizure and occupation of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, and in the defense of the airfield...

  Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg [de] hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees. Prisoners came from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically disabled, political prisoners, Romani people, Freemasons, and prisoners of war. There were also ordinary criminals and sexual deviants.  All prisoners worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. The insufficient food and poor conditions, as well as deliberate executions, led to 56,545 deaths at Buchenwald of the 280,000 prisoners who passed through the camp and its 139 subcamps. The camp gained notoriety when it was liberated by the United States Army in April 1945; Allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower visited one of its subcamps. From ...

The boy who vanished in the mountains, 1969. Dennis Lloyd Martin was a six-year-old boy who disappeared in the Smoky Mountains with his family on a yearly camping trip in June of 1969. The Martins met with family friends on the second day of their trip and made their way to Spence Field, a spot known for its good views.  Dennis, his brother William, and 2 children from the family they met on the second day decided to run ahead of the adults and hide in the woods around Spence field to scare the adults when they arrived. The children had left the supervision of the adults for 5 minutes.  The 2 kids from the family friends and William hid in one location, but Dennis hid nearby because the red shirt Dennis wore would have given away their location. Dennis was last seen running behind a tree along the forest boundary.  At 16:30, when the adults arrived, the kids jumped out of their hiding spots. When the adults asked where Dennis was, no one knew. Dennis's father, Bill Martin...

 William Smiley (or Smylie)  was hanged to death for the Armoy murders. Sisters Margaret and Sarah Macauley were spinsters, aged 48 and 43 respectively, who lived on the family farm at Mullaghduffbeg near Armoy in Co. Antrim with their brothers, Andrew and Leslie.  On the afternoon of Thursday the 24th of May 1928, both sisters were murdered in the farmhouse kitchen, by shotgun blasts to the head fired at close range. The farm employed two labourers, 33 year old William Smiley and Thomas McCaughan, plus a maid servant, Kate Murdoch.  All three went to the farmhouse for lunch at around 12.50 p.m.  Sarah Macauley took lunch out to her brothers who were repairing fences, leaving Margaret alone in the house. After lunch Kate Murdoch returned to her duties and at about 2 p.m. heard a shot ring out.  She was not alarmed by this as it was not an uncommon sound in the countryside.  She returned to the farmhouse about an hour later to find the Macauley sisters ...

War crime hangings at Landsberg in May 1946. With special thanks to Traugott Vitz for his help with this article. Over two days at the end of May 1946, 28 German war criminals were hanged at Landsberg am Lech prison in Germany (US War Criminals Prison No. 1). The Dachau concentration camp was liberated by two divisions of the U.S. Seventh Army on the 29th of April, 1945.  40 members of it staff were tried at the camp by a US General Military Court, presided over by Brigadier General John Lenz. The trials lasted from the 15th of November to the 13th of December 1945.   36 defendants received the death sentence. Eight of these sentences were reduced to terms of imprisonment by the Reviewing Authority, the remaining 28 death sentences being confirmed. The trial went under the designation “USA against Martin Gerhard Weiß (Weiss) et al.”, Case No. 000-50-2. Martin Gerhard Weiss was the camp commandant at Dachau.  This trial became the “Parent Case” for 488 other trials (a...

Considered the deadliest natural disaster in American history, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 left one in four city residents homeless and killed up to 12,000 people. On September 8, 1900, the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, was hit by a hurricane like none that the United States had ever experienced before. Winds of 120 miles per hour slammed the city with flying debris that cut through homes like shrapnel. Waves crashed onto the streets, leaving the city 15 feet underwater at one point. And, worst of all, virtually nobody had the foresight to evacuate. Galvestonians had experienced ocean floodwaters from storms before, but they hadn’t ever done much more than board up windows and build beach houses up off the ground as prevention. This lack of preparation would cost them dearly. A house sits on its side, uprooted from its foundation by the Galveston Hurricane's powerful winds and floodwaters.Wikimedia Commons A victim of the storm lies among the wreckage of destroyed houses.Wi...

Galvarino was heralded as a fearsome warrior, though it probably had something to do with the sharpened knives secured to the ends of his arms where his hands used to be.  CommonsA depiction of Galvarino just after the Spanish cut off his hands. Galvarino was the Mapuche’s version of William Wallace. A chieftain and warrior, Galvarino sought to free his people from Spanish domination in the mid-1500s. The Mapuche inhabited present-day Chile and much of Argentina in the 1500s when the Spanish conquered the Incas with their superior forces and firepower. After the Spanish conquered Peru, they turned their attention to the rest of the continent. The Spanish then met the Mapuche. From 1536 to the early 1800s, the Mapuche fought the Spanish as part of the Arauco War that lasted more than 250 years. The Origin Of The Legend Of Galvarino The legend of Galvarino likely kept the Mapuche in the war much longer than anticipated. The Mapuche still exist today, unlike the Aztecs and Incas who w...

🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: Earl L. Stier of the 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group On February 3, 1945 First Lieutenant Earl L. Stier of the 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, was involved in supporting a mission to Berlin and then went down to strafe Luneburg Airfield. After shooting up two enemy aircraft he flew his crippled and almost tail-less Mustang 450 miles across enemy territory and the North Sea, and landed safely back at Duxford in an exhibition of flying skill which won him the praise of other pilots. Originally published in the West Bend Pilot, March 8, 1945:  AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE FIGHTER STATION, England.... After destroying two German planes recently while strafing a German airdrome, First Lieutenant Earl L. Stier, 22, of 213 Fifth Av., West Bend, Wis., flew his crippled and almost tail-less P-51 Mustang, "Bum Steer" 450 miles across hostile territory and the North Sea and landed safely in England in an exhibition of flying skill that won him the praise...

  Reenactment of the execution of a British soldier for desertion. If anyone knows who's to credit for this scene, please let me know and will give credit.  Today 104 years ago, on December 3, 1917, British Private Joseph Bateman was executed for desertion. Unlike other British soldiers who were "Shot at Dawn" during the First World War, not much is known about Private Joseph Bateman, but this is what we know: Joseph Bateman was born in Wordsley, England around 1889. In November 1913, he married a woman named Florence Rudge, and on their first anniversary in November 1914, Bateman enlisted into the British Army with the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment of the British 2nd Division. Bateman arrived on the Western Front sometime in 1915 or 1916, and most likely fought on the frontlines on the Somme. However, less than 6 weeks into his service, he went missing for unknown reasons. When he was found he was put into detention and then released on a warning, though th...

10 a.m. on Friday the 20th of April 1849 saw Bristol's final public hanging on the flat roof of the gatehouse of the New Gaol in Cumberland Road.  Sarah Harriet Thomas, 19, had been found guilty of killing her elderly employer Miss Elizabeth Jefferies at her home in Trenchard Street in Bristol, where she worked as the house maid.  Between 5 & 6 a.m. on the 3rd of March 1849 Sarah bludgeoned Miss Jefferies to death in her own bed, hitting her on the head three times with a large stone.  She then robbed the house and killed Miss Jefferies’ dog.  Her confession to the foregoing facts was printed in the papers. Sarah came to trial at the Gloucestershire Assizes on Monday the 2nd of April 1849 in Gloucester Shire Hall, before Mr. Baron Platt.  Throughout her trial she had not appeared to treat the court proceedings seriously, but records state that when the Judge put on the black cap and sentenced her to death she collapsed and broke down completely.  The ju...

 Marie Fikáčková - a serial baby murderer. Marie Fikáčková was born on 9th September 1936 in Sušice, in Czechoslovakia. She grew up in a dysfunctional family but was able to graduate from medical school in Central Klatovy with good grades and in 1955 worked as a nurse in the maternity department of the hospital in Sušice, in the Pilsen region.  She was regarded as very competent, and was promoted to head nurse of that ward not long before her arrest. She had been married and divorced. Marie was suspected of killing two newborn babies in the neonatal unit of the district hospital in Susice on the 23rd of February 1960. She was arrested four days later.  Autopsies on the two baby girls revealed that the cause of death as severe brain injuries and fractures. The pathologist who carried out the autopsies concluded that the two children had died in quick succession from similar injuries.  According to court files, one child who was just 20 hours old had head injuries...

This date, April 9, in 1945, the German Nazi regime executed Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Photo: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship has been described as a modern classic. Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years, and then transferred to a Nazi concentration camp. After being accused of being associated with the July 20 plot (Operation Valkyrie) to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was quickly tried, along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intellig...