Guerres mondiales (WW1 & WW2)
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Rape, Murder and Genocide: Nazi War Crimes as Described by German Soldiers - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
The myth that the Nazi-era German armed forces, the Wehrmacht, was not involved in war crimes persisted for decades after the war. Now two German researchers have destroyed it once and for all. Newly published conversations between German prisoners of war, secretly recorded by the Allies, reveal horrifying details of violence against civilians, rape and genocide.WW2 Cartoons
Women’s Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions - NYTimes.com
There were notorious camp guards like Ilse Koch and Irma Grese . And lesser known killers like Erna Petri , the wife of an SS officer and a mother who was convicted of shooting to death six Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Poland; or Johanna Altvater Zelle, a German secretary accused of child murder in the Volodymyr-Volynskyy ghetto in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The Nazi killing machine was undoubtedly a male-dominated affair. But according to new research, the participation of German women in the genocide, as perpetrators, accomplices or passive witnesses, was far greater than previously thought. The researcher, Wendy Lower, an American historian now living in Munich, has drawn attention to the number of seemingly ordinary German women who willingly went out to the Nazi-occupied eastern territories as part of the war effort, to areas where genocide was openly occurring.
Dimanche 21 avril 1918. Le capitaine Manfred von Richtoffen, dit le « Baron Rouge » décolle du terrain de Cappy, à bord de son triplan Fokker Dr.I, et prend la la tête d’une formation de la Jasta 11, avec ses avions peints avec des couleurs criardes, ce qui lui vaut d’être appelée le « cirque von Richtoffen ». Le Baron Rouge n’est pas n’importe qui. Venu de la cavalerie comme bon nombre de pilotes aux débuts de l’aviation de chasse, Manfred von Richtoffen est l’as des as allemands, avec près de 80 victoires aériennes (le Français Fonck le talonne de près avec 75 avions abattus). Autant dire que beaucoup, à l’époque, aimeraient défier cet aviateur hors-norme et le surclasser.
Le certificat de décès du Baron Rouge retrouvé | Zone Militaire
Ce que l’armée US préféra censurer : la première guerre mondiale
94 4 share 0 share 98 Un noir avec des fleurs, qui lui ont été offertes par des femmes françaises le remerciant d'avoir contribué à les libérer ? Mais vous n'y pensez pas ! Des soldats américains, sourires en coin et choppes de bière à la main, dans la " Kantine " de la position ennemie qu'ils venaient de libérer ? L'alcool était formellement interdit !
Robert Capa – was that photograph really real? « Ethical Martin
For many years I’ve been talking to my students about the ethical dilemmas associated with photojournalism. One of the key case studies that we discuss is the image of a Spanish soldier at the point of death that Magnum agency photographer Robert Capa took in 1936. For years there’s been controversy around this image. Some historians and journalists, notably Philip Knightley, have argued that this is a faked image. Posed by the soldier for Capa’s camera. In a review of a biography of Capa ( Blood and Champagne by Alex Kershaw), Knightley is scathing in his attack on the man, and the famous image.
Robert Capa’s Falling soldier – does the evidence stack up? « E
[Traveller's tip: Don't miss: This is war! at the Barbican till 25 January 2009] I was fortunate enough to enjoy a ‘private viewing’ of the Robert Capa and Gerda Taro exhibition at the Barbican this week.Fin du mythe? Le journal catalan El Periodico a publié vendredi 17 juillet une enquête consacrée à la célèbre photographie de Robert Capa connue sous le titre "The Falling Soldier", réalisée avec Gerda Taro pendant la guerre d'Espagne. Publiée dans le magazine Vu le 23 septembre 1936 sans indication de lieu ni de date, reprise en couverture d'un livre qui contribue à asseoir la réputation du reporter ( Death in the Making , 1938), l'image avait suscité la controverse dès sa publication. Dans un ouvrage publié en 1978, le journaliste O'D.
Death in the making (Capa vs Google Earth) - Recherche en histoi
Il y a 70 ans, la France était en guerre depuis bientôt quatre mois. Si, à terre, le choc entre la Wehrmacht et les armées franco-britanniques n'a pas encore eu lieu, en mer, la guerre de course est déjà engagée, en attendant les premières grandes batailles navales, en 1940. Sans même compter sur la Royal Navy, la Marine nationale, avec 535.000 tonnes de bâtiments, aligne fin 1939 des forces très supérieures à la Kriegsmarine. Surprise par le déclenchement des hostilités, la flotte allemande ne parviendra jamais à mettre en oeuvre le plan Z, qui aurait fait d'elle l'une des plus puissantes marines du monde. La France, de son côté, s'est également engagée dans le conflit au moment où sa force navale était en plein renouvellement.
La flotte française en 1939 / mer et marine
Tannay, 24 mai 1940. L’armée allemande, qui applique la tactique dite de la guerre éclair (blitzkrieg), attaque là où l’état-major français s’y attendait le moins, c’est à dire dans les Ardennes. A charge pour les unités françaises déployées dans la région de bloquer cette offensive. C’est dans ce contexte que les 47 cavaliers restants du 93e Groupement de Reconnaissance de Division d’Infanterie, une unité de l’arme blindée cavalerie issue du 20e Régiment de Dragons dissous en 1940, reçoivent l’ordre de contre-attaquer des troupes largement supérieure en nombre et en armement, bénéficiant d’un soutien d’artillerie. Ainsi, à 18 heures précises, les hommes du 93e GRDI partent à l’assaut, baïonnette au canon… Dès les premiers instants, pris sous un violent tir de barrage allemand, 12 militaires français sont tués, dont le capitaine Charlois dont on ne retrouvera, plus tard, qu’un galon et un porte-clef. Seuls cinq cavaliers sortent indemnes de ce déluge de feu.
Mieux vaut tard que jamais | Zone Militaire
The making of Winston Churchill : The New Yorker
Seventy years ago this summer, in June of 1940, an aging British politician, who for the previous twenty years had seemed to his countrymen to be one of those entertaining, eccentric, essentially literary figures littering the margins of political life, got up to make a speech in the House of Commons. The British Expeditionary Forces had just been evacuated from France, fleeing a conquering German Army—evacuated successfully, but, as the speaker said, wars aren’t won that way—and Britain itself seemed sure to be invaded, and soon. Many of the most powerful people in his own party believed it was time to settle for the best deal you could get from the Germans.Dan Ariely probably isn't doing his field of behavioral economics any favors when he points out that before he pushed, Hitler was not averse to using a nudge. Still, this 1938 voting ballot which reads, "Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938 and do you vote for the party of our leader; Adolf Hitler?; Yes; No,” is quite amusing as an early example of primitive nudge technology.
Nazi Nudging
112 Gripes about the French - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
112 Gripes about the French was a 1945 handbook issued by the United States military authorities to enlisted personnel arriving in France after the Liberation . It was meant to defuse the growing tension between the American military and the locals. The euphoria of victory over Germany was short-lived, and within months of Liberation, tensions began to rise between the French and the U.S. military personnel stationed in the country, with the former seeing the latter as arrogant and wanting to flaunt their apparent wealth, and the latter seeing the former as proud and resentful.[1941] Who goes Nazi?—By Dorothy Thompson (Harper's Magazine)
By Dorothy Thompson It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times–in Germany, in Austria, and in France.Drôle de guerre & la Débâcle
[2010] Germany Closes Book on World War I With Final Reparations Payment - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Germany will make its last reparations payment for World War I on Oct. 3, settling its outstanding debt from the 1919 Versailles Treaty and quietly closing the final chapter of the conflict that shaped the 20th century. Oct. 3, the 20th anniversary of German unification, will also mark the completion of the final chapter of World War I with the end of reparations payments 92 years after the country's defeat. The German government will pay the last instalment of interest on foreign bonds it issued in 1924 and 1930 to raise cash to fulfil the enormous reparations demands the victorious Allies made after World War I. The reparations bankrupted Germany in the 1920s and the fledgling Nazi party seized on the resulting public resentment against the terms of the Versailles Treaty. The sum was initially set at 269 billion gold marks, around 96,000 tons of gold, before being reduced to 112 billion gold marks by 1929, payable over a period of 59 years.The Master Architect by Peter Foges - Roundtable | Lapham’s Quarterly
“Hitler was an astonishing walking encyclopedia of architecture.Le boucher de Treblinka