/r/WorldWar2
A place for historically-accurate content relating to the Second World War.
A place for historically-accurate content relating to the second world war.
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Why did Hess die in prison?
So before anything I want to preface myself almost anyone convicted of war crimes especially Nazis deserved to rot away and die in prison, but the Western treatment of German were criminals seems very inconsistent.
Gottlob was sent to 25 years, but only served 6.5
Raeder was sentanced to life but was only imprisoned for 10 years
Peiper was sentenced to death, then life, then 35 years but was released after about 11 years of total imprisonment.
While I know that the other Spandau prisoners except Raeder I think filled their sentence why not Hess?
22:35 UTC
Enemy at the Gates
Just finishing the book, which has nothing really to do with the movie. I’ve rarely encountered a more thorough slog through human misery. It even puts With the Old Breed at its lowest to some shame. Hard to have much sympathy for Nazis, but what that 6th army endured is beyond imagination.
15:16 UTC
An Engineer of Co. A, 319th Engineer Combat Battalion, 94th Infantry Division assembling M1A1 Anti-Tank Mines and an M18 of the 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion near Nenning, Germany February 3, 1945
00:11 UTC
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, nicknamed "Lady Death," exterminated around 309 Nazis in 1942.
23:33 UTC
Curtiss P-40E Warhawk cockpit
19:58 UTC
TBF-1 Avenger undergoing flight testing, March 23, 1942
16:50 UTC
Data in American History Course
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if someone in here could help me out. I am looking to incorporate more graphs and data into my Honors U.S. History course (line graphs, bar charts, pie charts, regular old tables, etc.). We are about to enter our WWI and WWII unit and I am trying to find websites where I can easily access some of this data (think like emigration/immigration data, number of Japanese Americans interned during WWII, losses within major battles, maybe even a graph on women entering the workforce too). If you know of a site/sites that I can use to then create handouts I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks for your time.
15:27 UTC
80 years ago today, on January 31, 1945, Private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion. He remains the first and the only American soldier to be court-martialed and executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
13:21 UTC
Nazi propaganda poster "Europe's Victory Your Prosperity"
11:00 UTC
Hitler delivering his "Victory or Destruction" speech in Berlin, 1943
10:23 UTC
How my family became Americans because of WW2.
Hey I just thought I’d share an American world war 2 history story. So my great grandpa was born in Mexico. He illegally immigrated to central California in the late 30s to make ends meet by picking oranges and grapes. When world war 2 broke out he was already 30 years old and enlisted in order to gain American citizenship. Supposedly, he was the oldest junior enlisted man in the 555th anti air battalion. Anyways, at the beginning of his service he was shooting planes with his 40mm bofers. Until he fought in the battle of the bugle the German Air Force was weak and shot the bofers straight into the German line. He left the service and gained citizenship and bought property and never worked a day in his life after.
08:34 UTC
P-39F-1-BE Airacobra in flight, 1942.
00:50 UTC
Paratroopers of the 503rd US Parachute Infantry Regiment prepare to board a C-47 Skytrain of the 60th Troop Carrier Group. Another C-47 (serial number 41-7767) is visible in the background.
13:44 UTC
An M-29 "Weasel" from Charlie Co. The "Weasel" American tracked all-terrain transport vehicle had a capacity for 4 men and was designed by Studebaker, it is particularly suitable for difficult terrain: mud, snow, sand, marshes.
00:56 UTC
USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan
22:11 UTC
The war is over.
Finnish soldiers hear that the continuation war is over 1944
20:08 UTC
A view from the pilot’s seat of a B-17 Flying Fortress during a flyover of the National Museum of the United States Air Force coinciding with when the Memphis Belle was first unveiled post restoration, 2018
13:42 UTC
Commander Borys Karnicki, the CO of the Polish Navy submarine ORP Sokół (Falcon), on the bridge with some of his crew. Photograph probably taken in Portsmouth, January 1941.
13:21 UTC
What did Hitler think of German POWs in Soviet gulags?
In my opinion he would've been pissed at Stalin for sending his soldiers to Gulags.
03:10 UTC
Jean Claude Carrier, a member of the Armée Secrète resistance, died in 1944 during his last stand, having killed approximately 12 Germans who besieged his home.
21:37 UTC
Heinrich von Vietinghoff and Joachim Lemelsen posing at Massa D'Albe, Italy (Gustav line), 1943
19:11 UTC
Germans armed with the Panzerfaust
16:03 UTC
Sarcastic graffiti on a ruined building reads, “It took Hitler 12 years to accomplish THIS.”
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