On This Day

On This Day - 1945 Pierre Laval of France surrender to the Americans in Austria.

On This Day

On This Day - 1941 - German troops do a house to house search in Paris, France looking for Jews hiding from being captured.

On This Day

On This Day - 1945 - Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany for atrocities committed during World War II.

They were :
Martin Bormann
Karl Donitz
Hans Frank
Wilhelm Frick
Hans Fritzsche
Walther Funk
Hermann Goring
Rudolf Hess
Alfred Jodl
Ernest Kaltenbrunner
Wilhelm Keitel
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Robert Ley
Konstantin von Neurath
Franz von Papen
Erich Raeder
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Alfred Rosenberg
Fritz Sauckel
Hjalmar Schacht
Baldur von Schirach
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Albert Speer
Julius Streicher

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On This Day

On This Day - 1942 - Nazi Germany raided on Greek Jews in Paris.

On This Day

On This Day - 1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the Italian government and introduced fascism to Italy.

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On this day - 1940 - French General Charles de Gualle set up the Empire Defense Council.

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On this day - 1940 - The P-51 Mustang makes it's maiden flight.

In my opinion it change the balance of scales into the Allies favor.

Blogging

I have only been blogging for a short while and loving it.

Thus far in the short period my stats indicate that close to a 1000 people visited my blog from South Africa, USA, Russia, Germany, UK, France, etc.

What will be interesting is who you are. Would you please give your first name and city where you from. It will really be an interesting fact. It will also give me the opportunity to look at your blog.

Many thanks

Flying Dutchman (South Africa)

On this Day

On this day 1946 - Nazi leaders were hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trails.

The court house as pictured by me during 2011.